I'd love to have ceilings like that. I was voted off the island when I suggested it as a ceiling treatment while finishing the basement years ago. Someday though, someday......
I love it also, my goal is to make this 100 year old farm house look as close to a log hunting lodge as possible. Eventually we will put half log siding on the outside but for now I want the inside to be as cabin like as possible. Now if could just get a big Mallard for on the wall my living room would be perfect
I did my camp that way but never put any finish because it a 3 season place. Bath always has fan on and windows open. Winter is when you create all the condensation. Use Helmsman by Minwax. I use it for outdoor furniture. Hold up where poly fails
beautiful room there, Ward!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE natural wood. Nothing, I mean NOTHING has the charm and coziness of a room clad with wood and stone. When we did our living room overhaul on our nearly century-old home, I turned our raftered roof into scissor trusses and put knotty pine T/G ceilings in. We also cased all the laminated beams and posts with barnwood from an 1860's barn I tore down......my wife and I LOVE that room, could literally lay on the couch in there all day and just stare at the stone fireplace and ceilings.... Back to my point, being it was a room I intended to look antique, all I did to the ceilings in that room was put a light stain on them (to take the "white" out of the boards). I didn't clearcoat them as I WANT the wood to discolor and oxyidize......it will look more authentic eventually. But in your instance, you definitely want some kind of good sealer on the boards, being it's in a bathroom. My wife gets "half-hour showers" all the time, with the water on full hot!! And she always FAILS to turn the exhaust fan on........ Some pics of our fireplace room, during and after the ceiling install....and a shot of my hearth with the antique cookware. That iron hanging from the mantel dates from the mid 1700's to the early 1800's.....so we've got the "antique" part down pat....
I absolutely love that! The stone and wood together are amazing! I agree, it is nice and warm and inviting having the wood in your home. Nothing wrong with a half hour super hot shower either We also cased our beam. It looks like a log but it is actually just the outside cuts that we lined up like a puzzle. It was a PITA but so worth it when done!
Here's the other room that we have totally finished. This is the first room we did. It had gold shag carpet and really dark brown paneling covering the plaster walls. We didn't know what we were getting into when we started this adventure but I have found out that I actually LOVE doing this. Taking something so old and restoring it to look amazing never gets old. (Don't rip on my electric fireplace...I now know better)
That's a beautiful room!! I love log furniture, a good friend of mine is an expert carver and makes all kinds of that stuff....... Www.rannelsrustics.com
Talk to Ben at that website......tell him his bear hunting buddy Scott from down the mountain sent ya!! He sells stuff all over the country. Some of it's pricey, but it's all handmade. He does some amazing things with wood.
Ok. It just looked like some of the stuff I pulled out of my house when I redid the HW floors. I did not click the pic and zoom in or anything though. I tore out green shag, gold shag or short pile, dont remember now? I tore out some sage green and gold stuff that to me looked identical to that stuff. The gold esp, even the pattern. I also tore out parquet floors glued down over hardwood. Had to trash it all and real id 3/4" 4.5" wide oak flooring in the parquet/ green carpet design room. But like I said I did not zoom in on it???
The ceiling and doors look amazing. If we had the cash I would put wood on the ceiling when we redo our upstairs bed/bath 450sqft room but dont thing the room nor ceiling is anywhere on the agenda soon.
love the wood looks guys (of course im going to catch heck when the wife sees them as i will probably be putting floor on all the ceilings soon as well in that case). as for the bathroom, the big thing is ventilation. what you worry about more than wood rot is moisture building in the seams of the sections of wood and starting to grow mold. a proper coating of clear poly should prevent this but the "insurance" is to evac the moisture as its created , with a proper bathroom vent.
