Recent project

[tiralie]

This is a project I recently completed and installed in a clients great room.
Each of these "faux" beams were made from 3 pieces of 3/4" flat cut Douglas Fir, bevel cut cookied and glued together. I stained and laquered them to match the clients floor of this great room. They are about 15.5 feet above the floor.
The main beams are 16.5 feet long and the cross beams are about 8.5 feet long.

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Some detail of the beams attached to the wall before I painted.

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Below is a detail of the cross members meeting the second main beam.
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[Ken Nagrod]

Very nice!  I'm guessing they wouldn't let you stain the sensor a matching brown?

 

[tiralie]

Actually it's a light for a painting on the wall.
It would have been better to not have it there than covering up the joint but it's a nice painting and a beautiful home.
I will post some pics of the mantle that shows the painting on the wall I also completed for this house.
Tim

 

[DavidCBaker]

Very nice, Tim. Lots of working with angles, it appears.  [thumbs up]

 

[tiralie]

Ya there was some angles to work out but I essentially fit each one based on a center line in the main cross beam.
I replaced the original beams that were rough hewn and painted light grey so I had a model to go from. I also took a photo of the original (see below) and was able to import it into Sketchup and measure the angles.
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[Kevin D.]

Very nice improvement.  Love the colour.

Welcome to the forum btw!  [smile]

 

[nickao]

Seems the '70's  are making a comeback.

 

[tiralie]

Very nice improvement.  Love the colour.

Welcome to the forum btw!  [smile]

Thanks!

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

IF the hand hewn one's weren't painted, I would have liked those.

The new one's do look better.

 

[tbellemare]

Around here, some people go for the hand hewn look also and the easiest way to replicate it is with the HL 850.

Tom

 

[Corwin]

IF the hand hewn one's weren't painted, I would have liked those.

The new one's do look better.

I agree.....  on both points.    [thumbs up]

 

[tiralie]

IF the hand hewn one's weren't painted, I would have liked those.

The new one's do look better.

I agree.....  on both points.    [thumbs up]

Thanks!
The client emailed me recently and said she was glad she had the old ones painted 'cause she likes the new ones better.
I was never convinced that the beams they had were all that bad, but I agree they would have been way better the darker color. when they hired me for this project the client told me their kids hated that they had painted them and they needed to have them fixed.