Post #433874 by TabooDan on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 4:27 PM

About the same time I did the staining of the T&G for the walls, I got the wood beams for the ceiling cut up, routed, stained and varnished.
Alot of the woodworking I am varnishing once installed but with these, being on the ceiling, I did them down low. All these pieces are one piece of pine almost the width of the room.

Here is the ceiling looking towards the hut and door area:

I also added strips of hardboard on top of the chip board as I found I needed that extra thickness for the pine to go on and actually rest over and cover up the edges of the matting.

Here's another shot:

Here is the same area once I added the wood:

The spacing actually worked out perfect for the matting and with the 1x6 between them. Only the one right next to the hut roof is narrower but you don't even notice. The second beam in also has a fire sprinkler drilled out of it. I'll add just a touch of dark paint on the bottom of that to blend it in just a little.

The dark wood came out nice right up against the Tapa cloth and the sea grass roof as well.

The next one is of the ceiling with the fireplace on the right:

Here is this area again but looking from the left, back at the room:

Still have a few touch ups on the beams to do but nothing much. For right now, this will be about it for this ceiling. I will probably be adding cross pieces and bamboo eventually but for the meantime this will be about it.
The ceiling is kind of hard to photograph but it did come out pretty good.
Lot's of work and some damn awkward angles to get into to hold it all up but rewarding once I got it all mounted.

Mahalo, TabooDan