More Plank Ceiling Progress

Brrrrr! Is it cold or what?!

Hubs and I finished installing the last of the plank ceiling yesterday. We were going to work on the beams today but only had less than a two hour time frame to work...and half of that would have been spent in prep work. So the beams will be project for the upcoming weekend.

Here are a few photos of the planked cottage style ceiling. Remember, what we had before was a badly applied cottage cheese ceiling. Tres ugly.

Here's where we started this week...we removed the old ceiling fan and another weird light by the dining room window.



We "plinked" chalk lines where the studs are located, which made nailing the planks up super easy.




The dining area ceiling planks installed.... I'm loving all that shiny goodness! Box beams will go right there at the seams. I'm tickled pink that they will be symmetrically aligned with the top of the window and above the dining table. The light fixture will go right in the middle.








By the way, we left a small gap between the planks where they butt up against one another at the ends. It will help when the wood expands and contracts, but we also left a gap around the perimeter of the room which probably would have been just fine by itself. We didn't mind leaving expansion space at the seams because we are covering them with beams. If you will be working on this project in the future, be sure to do your research as we are *not* experts, lol. If we weren't using beams, we would have installed the planks a little differently so as to avoid having noticeable gaps.

So...up next (literally)? Beams!