The ceiling beams are a good tool to hide wiring, ugly places in the interior. They create a unique interior in the room, it seems like you are on the old ship or got into the past.
In old wooden houses, beams on the ceiling are often available in the present form. Ceilings with beams can be decorated, adding false lags and, for example, consolidate lamps in them. Consider the main subtleties as possible to make the beams on the ceiling and emphasize the interior. The ceiling with beams is a design of hollow P or M-shaped structures, they do not give substantial load, but they give a very spectacular look.
Beams on the ceiling
Preparation of work
Before starting, it is necessary to prepare and strengthen the ceiling, especially if the elements are made of metal or wood.
We will need the following materials and tools:
- circular or hand saw;
- stapler, knife;
- glue (for belt);
- nails, hammer, carbon, roulette;
- bar 30x40 mm;
- Decorative belt (I used imitating forging, under ancient).
It is very important to purchase glasses and a special mask before work, to protect the eyes and respiratory tract from joinery dust.
After work, I had dust in the mouth, it was possible to draw on glasses, but I still often neglected by this simple rule, but when I tried to apply it did not regret it that I recommend it to everyone.
Decorative beams
Types of false beam
There is a great set, ranging from traditional wooden, which give warmth to any interior and ceiling, ending with polyurethane and plasterboard, which are distinguished by the available price, long period of operation.
The tree is not the cheapest material, but allow you to make a unique interior under the old days. Despite the cost, the ceiling false lags from the tree is popular due to the environmental friendliness of the material, practicality and very spectacular appearance with which nothing compares.
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Falc balks of wood
The metal gives the ceiling the effect of a modern building, but at the same time in such lags there is no old warmth, which is felt in rustic houses with clay walls and beautiful old ceilings.
Polyurethane is distinguished by affordable, practicality, such lags on the ceiling can imitate various materials, which is very convenient, but they are harmful and fires.
Making a wooden decorative beam with their own hands
I'll tell you about one interesting way how to make wooden beams on the ceiling with your own hands. We will need: the ax, and the nozzles on the "Bulgarian": a rough metal brush, a thin nozzle with sandpaper, a soft metal brush, I use the disks of the common Brigadier company, which is enough for longer, although it is a little more expensive, also need paint, Small-gravel sandpaper, lacquer or verse.
Aged wooden beam
To begin with a sharp angle of the ax, we make notches, and chips (what can be done with a strongly damaged old tree, which crawled the cores), after which a rough brush is going along the fibers to clean the irregularities, small grooves remain from it, which are also spectacular.
Then with sandpaper, remove the small layer, where burstages and irregularities remain, paint black paint, after which we take fine-grained sandpaper, even a small piece will be suitable, and we gently remove the surface layer on top of the paint, open the surface layer. It turns out a beautiful monolithic bar, from which you can then make the ceiling false lag on the ceiling, cutting the core.
Aged beams
To make a false beam, you need a circular saw cut from the 3rd side of the bar three boards, after which they are exactly putting up at an angle of 90 degrees and copold with self-draws, joints and caps are disguised with a putty wood.
Also, if there is a vertical metal backup, it can be seen with 4 boards on self-drawing, shake joints, after which any thick nozzle is taken, it may even be old with a winning coating for concrete and pass along the fibers.
Also, where the fiber drawing ends - we continue it on another board, not paying attention to the joints, you need to try to copy the natural structure otherwise there will be an unnatural interior, then you can paint, it turns out very beautiful, plus save time on stripping and preparation.
Sometimes customers ask the original ceiling with beams, which would attribute glances, for this I put the ceiling with burnt clap diagonally, which visually increases the room. After that, first up of the bar at a distance of 30-40 cm from each other, and then mount the beams on the ceiling.
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Beams and ceiling with clapboard
Next I will write secrets how do it yourself make the beam spectacular:
- Cracks can be scored with wax with a spatula so that the effect of overflowing glitter on the ceiling;
- The drill is made arbitrary holes, as if traces from bug-beetles, the holes should be done at an angle, to mimically imitate naturalness;
- Corners can be crushed with a metal rigid brush, because they used to be equal to the ax;
- Banal, but careful burning of the solder lamp will give a unique impression by the owner of such a ceiling;
- A cloth is rubbed into the surface of the Pinotex Interior composition, which gives the tree a special old view, it is important to keep in mind that it is not a varnish, but a decor, and apply it to a rag in a minimal amount.
When rubbing the composition, it is important to do it carefully so that there are no drowshes, the tree should absorb the composition naturally, in no case can you paint with a brush, Maclavice.
After that if there are no special "chips" in the form of wax, then the beams on the ceiling is painted with two layers of paint Tikkurila. It turns out an interior with a ship ceiling, when the floor is lying on the beams, very effectively emphasizes the interior of the transition zones and corridors.
Interior with ship ceiling
Installation
It is carried out on the ceiling very quickly with their own hands, despite the advice of many firms providing such services.
To secure false beams on the ceiling first mounted a bar 30 per 40 mm "rapid installation" to the ceiling from two sides. That is, for the attachment of M-shaped lags in the role of a plinth, it is necessary to fix two rails on the ceiling and the wall, the false beam is adjacent and fastened and fastened, "rails" are made along the entire length of future lags on the ceiling.
Installation of beam
A marker selected for color can be masked by chips on the ends. Also, when installing, you can hide the hats, driving with pre-small nozzles - crowns of space, the caps are removed from the nozzles, which are inserted back into the slots after installation, which is suitable for the color of the ceiling beam.
After that, it is usually nailed with nails to bars, you can hide the wiring under it, and place the lamps, these options should be thought out in advance, and the joints are hidden by a decorative belt or left as it is.
As we can see, you should not hurry with the installation of beams on the ceiling, which is much faster, rather than other ways to effectively decorate the interior of the room, and it is worthy to think about the material itself for the ceiling lag, because it is easy to embellish with your own hands.
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