Ceiling beam in the house, wooden ceiling and false beams

Ceiling beams always give the room a look of comfort and chic of a country house. This, of course, is good, but such a luxury is extremely rare, because not everyone can afford it. More often you can stumble upon fake beams, which later decorate under a real tree. But what other finishes are there? How else can you decorate an artificial or natural beam? Today we’ll talk about this!

Ceiling Beam Finish

Ceiling ceilings from open wooden beams are, most often, peeled logs of round or rectangular shape, which are selected mainly from coniferous species of wood. The design of the entire ceiling is very different: from the usual types “in the entire area”, to various configurations. First of all, you need to know that various styling methods affect not only the visual perception, but also the entire interior. For example, beams that are laid in the form of a "lattice", "Christmas tree" or any other shapes create a richer and more luxurious visual representation. And beams located in parallel form some severity and quality factor. And some designs involve transitions from ceilings to walls, which gives an exquisite European style to the room.

The main finishing of wooden beams include such methods and finishing materials as:

brushing method helps to clearly outline the texture of the wood pattern;
the method of texture processing of beams consists in using special brushes, rough planing and protective compounds to make in some parts of the beams notches and small cracks to create artificial aging of wood;
a combination of certain varnishes and paints, with which you can achieve the appearance of artificially aged wooden material, in combination with “peeling” paint creates a unique and original vintage style;
the use of forged metal or any other elements, such as braided twine, ethnic objects or various other ornaments, make the ceiling more diverse and brighter;
To achieve simplicity and a sense of quality factor, ordinary varnish or oil-wax coatings of wooden beams are used at home.

Hollow beam ceilings and their decoration

Hollow beams are also called false beams or pseudo-beams and are used where you want to create the style of a summer house or a country house.

Usually they have a U-shape, are quite light in weight, easier to install and have a number of advantages, which include the following:

in too high a room, the ceiling beams favorably create coziness, being located low under the ceiling on mounting plates or metal decorative fasteners;
successful masking of electrical wiring with the help of hollow ceiling beams allows you to decorate them with spotlights, freely and arbitrarily placing them along the width of the beam;
when creating the style of a provincial or metropolitan attic, the beams passing to the walls without fail create harmony of the pitched ceiling;
convenient for any decoration.

To achieve accuracy in the formation of high-tech style, beams are mainly used in steel or other cold shades of metal, marble or stone. However, if the goal is to give the room an ethnic style, then beams of wood options are certainly used and decorated with artificial carvings or vignettes. Decorations of false beams include elements such as: open lamps, hanging lampshades on chains, kitchen appliances, dried bouquets of flowers or bunches of herbs, photo frames, "air" hanging chairs, swings and much more.

Any solution using ceiling beams will always win, and the room will look stylish and unique. With ceiling beams in a particular room, there is always a feeling of something unusual and exclusive. The visual feeling of the quality factor of the house and the warmth of the hearth in a room with exposed ceiling beams will invariably create a feeling of coziness and immense comfort.