DIY Faux Beams Ceiling Makeover | Plank Over Popcorn Ceilings Faux Shiplap

this is my living room i've done some updates to it as you can see in this photo but it's time for a major upgrade my living room has beautiful 9 foot ceilings however they are covered in plain popcorn texture just like every other house in my neighborhood i want to accentuate their height and make them beautiful with three large beams so i devised a plan to plank over the popcorn texture and then build faux beams across the ceiling as you saw the first step was to cut on my circular saw the planks out of thin plywood now i am painting each of them with a paint and primer in one from bear these planks are going to go in between each of the three beams to cover the popcorn texture i'm using eighth inch thick plywood sheets this was very inexpensive each four by eight foot sheet cost me about twelve dollars at home depot in order to have enough for my project i needed to buy five sheets so now i'm going to look for the ceiling joists and because we live in a 130 year old house this can often be really strange and spaced differently than you'd expect i found my ceiling joist and i used this awesome tool i highly recommend it's a earth magnet it's very powerful and it magnetizes to the screw that actually holds the drywall into your joist so it's foolproof as far as finding where the wood actually is i marked all of these and it turns out that my joists are running every 32 inches across the ceiling and they are they're kind of wonky they weren't exactly perpendicular to the walls so because of that i was limited on which way i can run my beams and i decided to run my beams kind of horizontally with the room so that they would span multiple joists instead of hanging them on just one joist each once my joists were marked i could successfully screw my 2x6 supports for the beams into the ceiling making sure that my screws went all the way up into the wood so i used three inch long screws here and i did two screws per joist to make things easier on myself before i got up there i measured out where the joist was i pre-drilled through the two by sixes and then i sunk my screws in halfway that way when i'm holding that big heavy piece of lumber up on the ceiling i can just immediately knock the screws in with one hand so i love my rigid tool set i use it all the time i would recommend these drills to anybody because of their lifetime warranty even on battery replacement if you buy it through the home depot just wanted to shout that out because the more i use them the more i love them you can find the link to buy them yourself in the description on this video now that i have my beam spaced out correctly it was time to install the planks so i got a cordless rigid nail gun for this and i ended up using nails that were probably overkill since the planks are so light i probably could have installed smaller than two inch long brad nails but that is what i had on hand so that's what i used at least it went all the way through the drywall and i'm sure hit whatever else was hiding underneath there each of these planks is getting spaced evenly apart using a quarter so you'll see i slip a quarter in push the plank tight against it and then i nail it in if you want a full shiplap look this is a very cheap way to get it i would recommend doing this i did this also on our porch ceiling and it's held up great looking so beautiful and i get tons of compliments on it if you don't like what's on your ceiling but you don't want to take it down and re-drywall or you're like me and you don't want the mess and hassle of scraping all the popcorn then i would definitely consider planking it the great thing about this uh order that i did this process was that when i put the planks up i only needed to push them flush against the wall they were cut slightly shorter than where the beam's going to go because that beam is going to cover up the other edge so i didn't need it to be a tight fit or perfectly measured as long as it was fairly close to the wall i was good to go of course because my walls aren't all perfectly square there's going to be little gaps even though i did my best to get the planks pushed up tight so i came along all the edges of the ceiling with caulk i didn't want to do a quarter round because i didn't like that look and once i get the ceiling painted and the walls painted edged in you're never going to even know there's a bead of caulk there it's going to look as if the ceiling is flawless next in this adorable outfit i am painting i'm using a 4 inch 3 8 inch nap mini roller because i wanted just more precision and this roller is really the perfect size to hit each plank without like getting a bunch of paint in between the gaps so i did this um yes my neck was so sore by this point but the cool thing about painting is that it not only covered the nail heads that i didn't need to fill because the nail heads were flush and they're brad nails so they're small anyway it also made the um caulk on the corners and edges of the walls covered so that it doesn't attract dust dirt and it doesn't discolor over time alrighty let's move on to constructing the beams i picked up 1 by 6 by 14 feet long lumber and i hauled it in my pontiac vibe believe it or not i wish i had got a video for you guys they stuck out the hatch glass and i just put a flag on the end it was awesome here you'll see me sanding all of them down whenever you get lumber from the store not only are there a ton of slivers but a lot of times like they just won't they need to be sanded in order to accept stain and that's my plan is to stain these so after sanding i came across with a pre-stained wood conditioner i just bought the cheapest one by sixes at the lumber yard and that means they're pine pine is a softer wood so you want to use a pre-stain conditioner to get a nice even stain job since most aspects of my living room design are going to be a lighter color i decided to go dark with the beams on the ceiling to really draw your eye upward originally i started out doing the color kona but then i thought it was like too brown so i switched to this black this is minwax brand but i actually got it used at the household hazard waste facility it's like a paint recycling center so i have no idea if you could even pick this up nowadays this is what i did minwax classic black i stained the edges by flipping all the boards up the same direction and then i clamped them in a big row and threw some stain on like that with my paint brush isn't that cool so whenever you stain you typically want to apply and then after about 10 minutes you wipe off the excess stain then you can do two three coats whatever you find applicable and i did not do a poly layer on these because they're just me up on the ceiling nobody's going to touch them so i thought just staining was fine once all the boards were stained dried and ready to go it's time to cut them to length so i had to give 14 foot boards because my ceilings were like 12 feet 7 inches so that was kind of a bummer there was a significant amount i had to cut and waste but what are you going to do to assemble the beams in a u-shape that was going to be flush i decided to create this jig it's a piece of wood that i cut to the height of like the inside of the beam so that that bigger piece is cut to four and a half inches and then um and i just screwed like a 1 by 2 down into it on at a 90 degree angle so this can sit on top of the two boards on the bottom of the beam and the side of the beam and give pressure to both boards at the same time so that when i hold it on there then both are going to end up flush at the bottom where the beam is actually showing here you can see it in action so i set my two boards next to each other to create one side of the beam then i press down with my jig i clamp it in place and then i nail it with my finish nailer so a couple things about this beam construction i chose butt joints because i wanted the width of the beams to be seven and a half inches versus if i had done miter joints it might look better but i then would have a five and a half inch wide beam and i just thought that would be too small to scale with the living room so i ended up leapfrogging my two bar clamps and this just ended up being the best way to really hold things tight and keep everything flush the clamps did the work once my jig pushed down on the boards it was so important for me to get this beam all the pieces of the beam flush with each other so that it looked very good i actually constructed the beam on top of another 1x6 across the whole bottom so that the entire beam was supported that's why i couldn't have it elevated on my workbench and so that it was more level it had a flat surface that i could press down onto i flipped the beam over and voila i think that the seams look great and it's as flush as could be so my husband did help here we brought the beam inside and this is definitely a two-person part of the job i cut these really tight and so i ended up using a 2x6 and rubber mallet to pound up the other side of the beam until it came flush with the ceiling in some areas the ceiling was not like level across and so there was a gap and what i did in those instances is i attached the other side of the beam in where it was flush with the ceiling in with screws then i used this little jig it's a 2x4 that is cut to the height i needed with another 2x4 across the top to make a t the top two by four supports the whole beam as i again use my rubber mallet to hammer the bottom of the long two by four starting at an angle pressing it against the floor this leverage lifts the beam up and forces the one by sixes of the beam to conform and be flush with the ceiling i attached the beams to my 2x6 supports that run along the joists with just some screws so i constructed the beams with finish nails that were about two and a half inches long and then i used one and a half inch long screws to hang them here we go now it's done i love it i think it looks just like i envisioned in my head of course the room right now is so empty and strange but when i'm done with it i have so many major plans um it's gonna look amazing and the ceiling is absolutely going to be a feature if you want to see more of my living room makeover as videos come out don't forget to hit the subscribe button or follow me on facebook or instagram thank you guys so much for watching we'll see you again next time on welcome to the woods [Music] you

Channel: Welcome to the Woods

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Id: TjXVw0c1Ea4

Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 13 2020