Ceiling Finish

As Eli was working on our homemade light fixtures, I was prepping (sanding, sealing, sanding, sealing, sanding, sealing) the remainder of the boards to finish up our ceiling. Once I had all the rest of the boards ready to go, and we’d gotten our bedroom log lights installed, it was back to finishing up the ceiling.

By this point, we were in a pretty good groove for the ceiling work. As I mentioned previously when describing the ceiling install, working in the bedroom loft was much easier than the “cathedral ceiling” portion of our living room. One thing I didn’t mention previously about installing the ceiling boards was where the board ends meet at the “seam”, we have to cut the ends of the boards at a 45 degree angle, which makes for a tighter seam. (As described in an earlier post, since none of the boards are the full 24-foot length of the house, we had to decide where to “break” the boards over that length. Instead of staggering the location of the break, we decided to make the break at the same length on all rows of boards, creating a single “seam” in the ceiling, which we’ll later cover up with trim.) But, just as before, to install the boards, we’d cut the board to length, do a dry fit to make sure all was good, then apply adhesive, put the board in place (with a little coaxing from the hammer and chisel if necessary), and nail it into place.