How To Make Faux Beams

I love rustic beams. I have been bugging suggesting to my husband that we put beams in our living room and family room for years. When I finally painted the existing beam in our living room, that was covered in drywall, to look like wood, he agreed that we could add some more details.

I wanted our beams to do this...

I didn't know what to call it so I showed a picture to my husband.

He never said a word. He just disappeared into the garage and I thought he was cleaning up from what we had just finished. When I went out to check on him, I found him making these!

He mitered the sides so that they fit together perfectly and so that they looked like solid beams.

He reinforced them.

And put the lid on them!

He then delivered them to me to be painted. I wanted to paint them so that they would match the faux wood treatment I'd already done in here.

We had already gotten boards that matched the width of the beam on the ceiling. He attached them to the wall...

using big bolts that we pre-painted black.

We did the same thing on the opposite wall - added a board down the wall and attached our faux beam. The black bolts tie in with the black gate hinges on the shutters.

Now I'm bugging  suggesting to him that we need another one on the other side of the room!

We've also recently added some wood trim to hallways and I hope to add some to the wall with the mirror. And I've almost gotten all of our doors painted and will show them to you soon!

You can see more pictures of this room on yesterday's post.

love and blessings~

"Behold, I will set your stones in turquoise, and your foundations I will lay in sapphires. I will make your summits of rubies and your gates of crystal, and your entire wall of precious stones."

Isaiah 54:11,12

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