Do you any ceiling lights now or a ceiling fan?

8.75 would be fine to it's only a difference of 3 inches.. Are you going to do up lighting? In the second picture that ceiling is really set up for it and that opens up a lot of options on your finishes and textures on the ceiling.

Thank you Beverly and Elle This is my own house so that shouldn't be a problem

Thank you. Point noted. I will remember that while we choose our decor so that i mix and match a little to break the monotony of the theme. I forgot to mention- there is one other reason why we settled for the no-false ceiling decision. I love the height of the ceiling and the ample natural light in the room. We did not want to cut off few inches by adding a false ceiling. We might add a portion of wooden ceiling perhaps if we feel that might be good, in future. But as of now is there no other option to make the room look complete, without the false ceiling I mean? Perhaps solid or textured paints-light reflecting colors on the ceiling or something like that... and getting back to the topic of false ceiling, are there options that can be added without reducing the height of the room? Because the two options that the designers gave me are wooden panels or POP wherein close to 1/2 feet is lost totally.