I have a new basement room 12'3 by 16'9, height 8'9, I plan to use it for home theater room and really liked some design with coffered ceiling,
for example like this
I wonder will my room be too small or too low to get the proper feeling of coffered ceiling? I think most of the coffered ceiling should be installed to raised ceilings..

also how/where to install the rope lights to achieve the lighting effect as shown in the model mentioned above?

thanks.

 

Thats a cool ceiling. I don't see why you couldn't do something like that in your room. You could have a nice 9 inch reveal and have the bottom at 8'. Are you going to put the wood up? or are you trying to do a couple of layers made of drywall?

If you weren't going to do the wood you could do a couple of drop tray's and you could put the rope light on top of each tray.

 

I'll make some wood box and hang them there, so should I put dry wall first and then add the add wood afterwards, or should I frame them first, then add drywall, accent wood cover/molding?

another tricky situation is I'll have two w8 beams (section dimension h:8" w:4")in the room, one on each side along the edge of the length of the room, and some pipe along the back of the room, so I had already planned a soffit to cover those, this will limit the area to build the trays, if I have 3x3 trays, each tray will look like 4' by 2'8", will that look too small?

 

Twinklestar,

I think it depends on the width of the beams you plan to use in the coffered ceiling. The example in the link has pretty wide coffer beams. For your room dimensions, I think you may want to use somewhat narrower beams to make the coffers. The room in the link has spotlights in the coffers -- if you don't need those spotlights, your coffers can be a little narrower.

Another thought, check out a product called "raised panel drywall". One company that makes it is Pittcon Industries, they call theirs "Softforms". They make a ceiling panel that has 1' x 1' molded inset "panels" in the drywall. There may be other manufacturers with slightly different dimensions. You wouldn't be able to put rope lights in it, however. But it would be much less work & cost than a coffered ceiling, and might look good in smaller rooms with lower ceilings.