Beadboard Ceiling

I just know that when you look at this picture, you are having the exact same first thought that I did...that has GOT to be the kitchen ceiling. It can't be anything else.

Here are a couple of the pieces of beadboard that are getting ready to be processed. Doesn't that look like the most amazing kitchen ceiling?

OK, first we have to run it through Christopher's planer a couple of times. It was quite cold Thanksgiving morning, but we got a good sized pile done.

That gave us pieces that look like this. You can see that most of the chipping paint has been removed by the planer, but the v-joint and the tongue and groove edges still have to be worked on.

Here we are outside working on a few of the boards. Scrappers, a heat gun and a rotozip took care of the majority of the paint.

Here it goes! The pieces are tongue and groove 3/4 inch beadboard. They probably graced the ceiling of an old wrap around porch on some old house that may not even be standing any more. The ends are not made to accept tongue and groove, so we are using Dean's biscuit joiner to make them attach together securely.

This weekend, we did get about 4 feet of the ceiling up. It looks incredible and I hope the kitchen will be one of the hubs of this old girl one day again soon! I will post more as we get it closer to being done!