Enjoy the texture of a bead board ceiling.
If the traditional painted drywall on the ceiling does not fit with your stylistic and design goals for a room, consider wood instead. Add natural warmth and texture to a ceiling with decorative wooden bead boards. Wooden bead board wall and ceiling treatments are often associated with an antique or cottage-style look. Wooden bead boards have tongue-and-groove-style edges, allowing easy, secure installation through locking board joints.
Instructions
1. Locate the ceiling joists, using a stud finder. Make marks on opposite sides of the ceiling on the centers of the joist ends. Stretch a chalk line between the marks and snap it to delineate the joist paths.
2. Measure the length of the ceiling going in the opposite direction of the joists. Cut the boards to fit, using a chop or miter saw.
3. Stain the boards, if desired, and apply a urethane finish. Apply two to four coats of urethane with a paintbrush.
4. Unscrew and pull down the canopy from the ceiling light.
5. Extrude a bead of construction adhesive onto the back of the first board.
6. Affix the board at the edge of the ceiling perpendicular to the joists and with the groove side against the wall. Drive nails through the tongue on the other side of the board, into the ceiling joists, using a pneumatic or electric nail gun.
7. Apply adhesive to the back of the next board. Lock the groove side of the board onto the tongue of the first board. Nail the board to the joists.
8. Continue to affix successive boards to the ceiling in the same manner. Cut notches out of the boards to fit around the hole in the ceiling for the light fixture, using a jigsaw.
9. Replace the light fixture's ceiling canopy.
10. Install crown molding, if desired, around the walls where they meet the ceiling. Use a miter saw to create angled scarf joints where two lengths meet, and to make mitered joints to fit corners. Remove excess wood to help create tight joints at inside corners, using a coping saw. Secure the molding to the walls and molding joints with finish nails.
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