How To Build Coffered Ceiling Beams

This room had a coffered ceiling that i had to work with.

How to build coffered ceiling beams.

Each recessed square area in the coffered ceiling grid should be the same dimension. Pop the piece out apply adhesive to it and set it back. Cut widths of beam according to your measurements to build the other sides of the boxes. Instead of spending days building an elaborate grid of framing i attach the beams faux beams actually to u shaped supports glued and nailed strategically and intermittently to the ceiling plane.

While there are several different ways to build coffered ceilings the easiest is to build a length of boxes at the same time. Make use of existing beams. Attach one of the beams lengthwise across the ceiling flush against the wall. Although coffered ceilings draw the eye upward the beams extend downward into a room taking up some overhead space.

Even though most of the beams in a coffered ceiling are hollow they should look like a convincing structural system. Once the beams are built each recess is typically finished with molding but i m focusing here on creating the box beam grid. This is the same technique used on all three of my box beam ceilings if you remember the kitchen and living room updates too. Shoot a nail through each corner of the crossbeam into the ceiling.

The width and height of the box beams also has to be uniform. Then with your nail gun held at about a 45 degree angle to the joint toenail through the corner of the crossbeam and into the main beam. Make a ceiling plan and layout the coffer grid. The grid can either start along the perimeter wall or be inset from the perimeter wall as shown in the ceiling plan on the left.

Given this construction coffered ceilings work best in rooms with high.