Installing wood paneling on a ceiling is an excellent way to finish a room and add some subtle drama. Wood paneling is often used on a ceiling that is vaulted or has exposed beams, but this material can be installed in any room. If you are comfortable working on a ladder and have some woodworking experience, consider installing the wood paneling yourself.


Installing Wood Paneling on a Ceiling Is Easy but Fatiguing

Although this is an easy project considering the skill needed to complete it, working on the ceiling is always difficult. Keep muscle fatigue in mind, and make sure you have a sturdy ladder to work on while completing this project. A helper can also make installing wood paneling on ceiling an easier job by cutting pieces and handing them up to you to be installed.

The Fun Times Guide To Homebuilding reader, CA, asks:

RE: Coffered Ceilings with an Angled Ceiling

Is it possible to have a coffered ceiling finish on an angled ceiling?

I have a home with a 33 year-old A frame addition. The height of the ceiling is 14 feet from the floor to the highest point. Half the room is for the family room The other half is used for office space pantry and a full bath with tub. The office side has a 7 foot ceiling with a loft above that is also 7 feet high. The space is open except for the bath and pantry. I have lots of white space on the ceiling where the
the family room is. I was wondering if coffered ceilings is an appropriate solution to the white space or might there be other options / recommendations? We are planning to paint the entire room because we had several windows replaced. We are looking at what to do with the ceiling so we can do it now in one project. Your help / thoughts would be much appreciated.

Warm regards,

CA

I'm not a home builder or a contractor but I promised 'CA' an answer once I had an opportunity to talk to a contractor (Michael: Site Supervisor @ the Victorian Queen Anne home I'm covering) and here's what he suggested you try:

If you are in the planning stages of a new home and have considered different ceiling style options, I would like to offer some ideas for you regarding coffered ceilings.

Here are some pictures of the coffered ceilings that I have come across in my tour of homes being built. Some of them are in the construction/painting phase and others are "consumer ready".

The high quality building materials for the mantels, fireplaces and chimneys in this English cottage-style home are all smart choices due to their durability, natural beauty and functionality. The same goes for the reclaimed antique terra cotta roofing tiles, copper gutter system, hand-hewn solid white oak exposed beams in the breakfast room and the stone wall that surrounds the intricate courtyard.

Welcome to part 2 of my "Best Of" photo series of this custom built English cottage-style home.

An exposed beam ceiling consisting of hand-hewn, solid white oak timbers gives a tremendous amount of character to the breakfast room that's under construction in this English cottage style home located in The Retreat at Kennesaw Mountain. It is yet another feature that is not seen in homebuilding these days. There were absolutely no nails used to put this ceiling together, with the exception of the end units being attached to the framing of the home itself. It is a mortise and tenon assembly. Isaac Tate was the carpenter that put this mortise and tenon masterpiece together.

Read on if  you would like to see more photos of the mortise and tenon joint exposed beam ceiling.

When I first saw the framing for the groin ceiling in the vestibule just off the foyer I was curious about the final result. The construction isn't quite finished on the groin vault ceiling but it is coming along nicely. A groin vault isn't an easy choice for a ceiling but I've come to expect the unexpected at this English cottage-style home at The Retreat.

There's Nothing New About Groin Vault Ceilings

"Vaulted construction, using barrel and groin vaults, and sometimes domes, to distribute the weight of the ceiling and roof, is an ancient form of building, once used extensively by the Romans."

The above is a quote from:
Office of the Curator website - U.S. Dept. of the Treasury