Accent Ceilings Curved framing by Accent Walls Send a drawing

Curved framing, drawn to your site.

Send the drawings and site levels. We draw the frame, then CNC-cut, number and fit‑check every part in Melbourne.

Barrel vaults, coves, curved bulkheads, arches, curved walls and columns, supplied as a kit for your crew to install and sheet.

A long hallway with a run of white plastered arches across the ceiling and pendant lights hanging between them.
Inspiration image. Photos of our own kits are in How it works.

Kits

A smooth white barrel-vaulted passage, lit from above, opening onto a doorway at the far end.
Inspiration image

Ceiling kits

Framing for the curve overhead, hung from the joists or steel that are actually there.

Barrel vaults
Vaults over rooms, halls and passages, to the radius on your drawings.
Coves
Perimeter coves, cut to the profile on your drawings.
Curved bulkheads
Radiused bulkheads, curved in plan or in section.
Groin vaults and domes
Under review. Send the drawing and we will tell you straight.
A deep, rounded plaster archway in white, framing a second arch beyond it.
Inspiration image

Archway kits

Arches and curved walls cut to the opening you measured, not to a catalogue size.

Arches
Arched openings, cut to the profile on your drawings.
Curved walls
Plates and ribs for walls curved in plan, to your set-out.
Columns
Ring-plate frames for round columns and casings.

From your drawing to a numbered kit

Four steps, in order. Nothing is cut until you approve the shop drawings.

  1. Drawings and site levels

    Send the architectural drawings or reflected ceiling plan, the sections, and what is really up there: joist or steel levels, services, and any out-of-level existing structure. Photos help.

  2. Shop drawings for approval

    We draw every rib, batten and hanger to your levels and send the shop drawings back. You check them against the job. Once approved they are marked approved for manufacture, and changes after that become a revised estimate.

    A CNC nest drawing: seven numbered cove ribs laid out on one formply sheet.
    Every part is drawn and numbered before it is cut. Seven cove ribs nested on one 18 mm formply sheet.
  3. CNC cut and workshop check

    Ribs are cut from 18 mm formply on our CNC router, with slots for the pine battens. We stand the frame up in the workshop and dry fit it before anything is packed.

    Black formply arch ribs joined by pine battens, standing on the workshop floor during a dry fit.
    Workshop dry fit: formply arch ribs with housed pine battens.
  4. A numbered kit for your crew

    Parts are labelled to match the shop drawings. Your crew hangs it, fixes it and sheets it with flexible plasterboard.

    Round column frames made from stacked ring plates and vertical battens, assembled in the workshop.
    Ring-plate column frames, assembled and checked in the workshop.

Drawn to the real site, not an ideal radius

Uneven structure

Old houses and refits rarely have level joists. Hangers are stepped to the levels you give us, so the frame is drawn for the structure that is really there.

Services in the way

Ducts, pipes and beams are worked into the rib layout on the shop drawings, so the clash is solved at the desk, not up the ladder.

An honest call

If flexible track or plain radius plates will do your job for less, we will say so. A kit earns its keep where the geometry or the site is awkward.

Who does what

Accent Ceilings

  • Geometry and shop drawings
  • Set-out to the control points you nominate
  • CNC cutting, numbering and workshop dry fit
  • A labelled kit, packed for site

Your project team

  • Installation, fixing and sheeting, by your crew
  • Structural adequacy and fixings, by the project engineer
  • Fire and compliance approval, by the building surveyor

Commercial projects are screened one at a time, and go ahead only with the building surveyor’s acceptance.

Send a drawing

Email whatever you have and we will come back to you about an estimate.

  • Plans, reflected ceiling plan or elevations, PDF or DWG
  • Sections or heights for the curve
  • Joist or steel levels, or photos of the existing structure
  • Suburb and rough timing