Customer wanted to add character and color to her relatively new home which was expansive but had very little character. The kitchen, dining and living area was expansive yet offered no feeling of separation between spaces. Initially, she wanted beadboard ceilings simply to cover the generic white ceilings but, she was open to suggestions. We proposed coffered ceilings, because they enable character, creative lighting options, invite a variety of colors and generate an inherent separation between functional areas.