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.

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".

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