Do It Again

We love the wood ceiling in the back hallway so much that we decided to do it again in the entry way. In the back hall we left the wood from the old grainery natural, just power washed it. Added an old timey light and it is gorgeous. The entry way needed to be a little more formal. The hall table we will have in there is a very ornate antique reproduction. So we planed the boards 3-4 times leaving some of the worn wood and all of the varmit holes.

First order of business is to put the drywall up to put the wood against. Need to form the curve for the drywall. We started by shaving the drywall sheet down so it would fit close to the curve.

 Then Bill used a piece of wood with a notch cut out of it to follow the curve. The notch was for the pencil to rest in. Then you simply run the piece of wood or ruler along the curve and the cut line is drawn.

The Dremel cuts along the line to give us a perfect curve.

 Time to start putting the pieces up. This is tongue and groove wood so we used rubber mallets to tap the groove over the tongue on each piece. That is what the black marks are on the backing wood. This wood is 100 years old so the pieces are warped in places; they don't just snap into place like new wood would. Plus we are building on a curve. Several things make this a little more difficult than usual, not the least was that we had to have the scissor lift so high for me to reach the boards to hold them in place that poor Bill kept knocking his head. The perils of having a 9 inch difference in height.

 We figured out a pattern of 6 long pieces and then 2 short pieces to keep a random look. But, we would line up the nail holes from the original building so it would be pleasing to the eye.

After each fifth board we would get the circular saw out and trim the boards. Anything longer would have been difficult to reach across. Bill was having to cut the boards above his head while I grabbed them as they were cut to avoid him getting hit.

 You can see a couple of holes probably eaten into the wood by mice to get to the wheat in the garinery bins. We stained the backer board darker than the pretty wood so it will look like they are still real.

 What we we do without our faithful scissor lift? Best purchase for the building process ever.

 Oops, there are two boards that do not fit tight together. Age had caused some of the wood to break off or when we dismantled the grainery we broke little pieces off, something happened so they were not flush against the adjoining boards. We wanted to use them because they had beautiful grain we wanted to show.

 A little wood glue and painter tape to hold the little pieces in place. You can't tell that we added wood at all.