Post #434174 by TabooDan on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 4:36 PM

Once I thought about this drop down, above the T&G, on the door wall, I decided against boxing it in to make it look like a big beam. I wanted to install a shelf up here to the underside of the drop down and wanted a different type of background for the items on the shelf as opposed to just dark wood. Plus, with a shelf mounted on the bottom, it would have plenty of wood in this area.
I thought I would do bamboo all the way along as you just can't have enough bamboo! I painted the background ready for the bamboo but then decided against it.

I finally decided on just continuing the same look as below right up to the ceiling. I would have the matting on either side and have T&G come all the way up.

Like in this shot, where I have added the T&G and one side of the matting:

Once I got the matting finished, I started on the shelf. I didn't want just a plain straight shelf so I cut a little flavor into it.
I designed it where it would be almost flush with the depth of the drop down on either end and then round out from about 12" in either side. I couldn't get it all on one piece so I had to have two sections.

Here is a shot of the shelf being finished:

And another where it gives an idea of the shape:

You can also see that I have cut out a small 5/8 channel into the shelf. This will be on the top side and this is where I will install rope lighting to lite up the items on the shelf and give a nice glow on the ceiling. The shelf is really just an accent piece and again just really giving me another spot to but a bunch of crap!!

This piece of wood is 16" deep. The drop down from the ceiling is about 10" deep so this shelf will only be about 6" deep. Perfect for a row of mugs!!

Here's one with the matting completed and the shelf installed:

You can just make out the wire on the far right hand side coming up from the shelf. This will be channeled to the back and you will not see it at all.

Here's a little closer shot of some of the electrical I was playing around with:

This next one is a straight on shot of the wall:

I will be adding bamboo to cover some seems and will also be adding a small side bar sort of shelf which will go right at the point between the matting and T&G. This I had planned on for a while and did this height the same as the bar, which is 42". This will tie in with the rest of the room. It will also be cut with the curved style as the above shelf so that they mimic each other. This side bar will also have a custom hand carved molding running from the left all the way to the shelf unit.

More to come!
Mahalo, TabooDan