 There's really no safe, like simply safe. I've been documenting renovating my 1929 Spanish home and we're now working on the office space, which is right off the main living room that features this cathedral ceiling. I opted for an olive green color and started painting that on the walls in the last video. And then I decided, what if we transferred the wood ceiling into this room as well? Which is pretty crazy to think about. So that's what we're doing this week, transferring the wood ceiling into this room, which will be fun. So let's do it. Hi, welcome back to the channel. I'm Drew here from Lone Fox and today we are installing a wood coffered ceiling in my office. Now this was an idea that just popped up randomly as I was painting the office. I was painting the walls green. I did an olive green color in the office. And as I was painting them, I was like, what if we did the dark ceiling in here? Like what if we transferred it from the living room area which already has the original cathedral ceiling and have it kind of transfer into the office space? I'm a huge fan of any wood paneling, whether it's on the wall, on the ceiling, whatever it is, but I absolutely love a wooden coffered ceiling. Like when it's done in actual wood, I do love a painted one too, but when it's done in actual wood, I think they're so beautiful and they're kind of hard to come by. So I thought it would be nice to DIY and recreate my very own wooden coffered ceiling to kind of coordinate with the original living room. Probably gonna be one of the largest DIY projects I'm undertaking, I will say. And we have to go get a bunch of wood. I've been researching so much for this project too. I just wanted to see what slats I can use, what beams are the best, what application is the best to apply them. And I feel like I have a pretty good understanding, but we are gonna need to head out and get some supplies. 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I actually ended up giving this at a local wood store called Ann Walt and that was because they offered three by six pieces of wood, which I've never seen a three by six before. I've seen a two by six, a two by four, a four by six, never seen a three by six, but that is the exact size of the current beams that are in the ceiling. So I was able to find it, which was great. They're actually pretty heavy. We're going to be cutting them down to the proper size and then pocket holding either end of them and attaching them and mounting them to the current beams that are in the ceiling. So that's kind of the process there. And then the light is gonna kind of drop from our center square. Once we have all of our larger beams added for our cross sections, we have our grid kind of created, then I'm gonna go in and add slabs. Think we're gonna start with the side closest to the windows because we're gonna be able to see kind of the beams in alignment with the windows, which is probably one of the most crucial sections. Beam, but I did cut it a little big just to be safe. Okay, it's not gonna fit. It just needs a little trimming. I'm back. It's good. They're on color though. But it's not, I like it. So I picked up this Kreg jig that basically allows you to create pocket holes and I'm gonna want to pocket hold these into the edge of our already attached beam so that we don't have to like screw this into the ceiling. And so I'm gonna place this on and then clamp it down. I really like this one because it's super universal. You can move it around, you could do any direction or angle, whereas like I have this one as well, but this one you can only do wits up to like this thick. Just go in and it creates perfect pocket hole that you can then screw in and then your screw will be hidden and we can cover this with wood filler. The pocket hole's in either side of our beam and now I'm going to screw it in. In case you want to recreate this in your 1929 home. It's the two person process. Yeah. Dirty. They make this thing like a special first ever. Let me bring you in for a close up. Look at that you guys. Looks really, really nice. So I actually realized if you do the pocket hole closer to the top where we're going to be screwing it in, the slats that we're going to be running the opposite direction will actually totally cover this up right here. So a little tip is to have your pocket holes closer to the top edge that's going to be against the ceiling. Welcome to day two of this ceiling transformation and this morning Justin actually cut down all of the slats while I was editing episode one. So this is what the slat pile is looking like. And Justin, would you like to tell everyone what you have done here? First things first. I did all the measurements of everything. He like redrew the ceiling. So like the ceiling looks like this from the boards that we got yesterday. I gave each one a number. So that's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Each one has like the slightest bit of measurement because obviously there's human error and it's a house from 1929. And we're adding trim around the edge of all of this. So if they don't meet up perfectly, we're going to have probably about a half inch to an inch of trim covering. There's 99 total slats here. Except for actually cut one extra, so there's 100. We're going to be using 99 of them. And one of them is going to have to be cut per box because it's not going to be a perfect fit just based off the size. So we're going to start installing the first section and we pre-cut these down. This is actually a select pine from Lowe's and I will say this project is not a cheap project but it is also not a super expensive project being fully transparent with you guys this ceiling. The entire thing with stain and everything is going to cost around $700 which is expensive but when you think of the impact that it makes in this office space I really think it's going to be worth it. For applying these to the ceiling we're going to be using a broad nailer and these one and a half inch broad nails. And yeah, that's really all. And keep in mind when you're applying slats like this to the ceiling you actually want to kind of shoot the nails at different angles so it holds it up as opposed to shooting them all straight up. It has a potential to fall. We're actually using this right here as a spacer. It is just a row of the nails but it has like the perfect quarter width but it's long so you can actually like make sure it's nice and stable. So I'm going to start like at this end push it in there as a spacer. We have the first section paneled as you could see. Now there is a little board that we're going to have to cut down a bit smaller here and this is for every square because they are the same dimension so each left side of the square is going to have a skinnier board but we are adding trim around the edge so do not even look at these edges. And then once it's all stained it's going to coordinate back to this beam here and I'll say that this section here only took like maybe five minutes to put up so putting it up is pretty quick. It's just the process of cutting and measuring that takes quite a while. So after we figured out the first one it was pretty smooth sailing from here. I would say that the most time consuming part is definitely cutting the boards but if you were to cut all of them at once and kind of follow the method of mapping out all of your different coffered squares that you have and then kind of measuring each of them putting it on a piece of paper and doing all of the cuts at once it definitely makes the process a little bit quicker than having to measure each square and then going down and cutting each individual slats so kind of think of it as an assembly line process and that's going to speed it up just a little bit. This is what it is looking like so far. We still have to add this piece but we're going to do all of those cuts at once so it's just more efficient. We reached the light spot we actually did need to cut out the little piece of wood that would be covering it essentially so we just laid the slat over the top of it and then marked the two spots to cut and it just happened to be that this was underneath only one slat which was just out of luck but if you do have to cut two or more than that just cut them as needed and then we also did use a circular saw to cut these boards down just so they weren't as wide as the previous ones to fill in the gaps for that 11th board on each of the squares because 10 of them fit perfectly and then we had to trim down one. Look at that. The base of the ceiling is done and it looks so, so good. I am so happy with how this turned out. Tomorrow we are going to go in with the stain and apply that on the actual boards and then do some trim work around the edge and it will be good to go. I just, it looks so good and the light cut out also so perfect. It just happened to like line up with one of the strips of wood. It is the following morning and we are starting to trim out these boxes. As you can see here, this is a trim that we're adding. It is a simple three quarter inch just square dowel essentially but we got them in eight foot sections. So Justin has been out here mitering away. There he is. And yeah, we're adding those. It's just super simple kind of cutting them for every single spot around the edge. We're going to do all four sides of all nine squares. To trim out your squares you are going to want to measure each section of trim very precisely and also individually. You can't really cut multiple pieces of trim at once just because each trim might slightly differ. So I suggest measuring each piece of trim and then marking that measurement onto your piece and then cutting them as you go. So here we are marking that measurement onto our piece of trim bringing it outside and cutting it at a 45 degree angle. That way the mitered corners meet up on the square and create a nice seamless look. Once you have two of your pieces on either side you have to cut a piece that will then fit right in between. Just like that. I like to do. I got some papers that we could start sanding but am I the only one that thinks this like cardboard paper smells like an actual butt? Like I am sorry it smells so disgusting like it gets on your fingers. I think cardboard boxes smell like literal butt. This smells like butt. I think it's just foul. The whole room smells like it. Anyone else? Don't you think Justin? It smells so bad. So the stain that I'm using on the ceiling is my Trident Trusted Verethane Gel Stain in the color Kona. This is a color that I used on that table that I created in the breakfast snook and also the color I did for the Ikea table that I did recently. It's my favorite like dark walnut color and I'm hoping that it's going to just match the original tone of the beams there. Justin is taping off around all of our molding that we added which looks so nice. I don't even think I actually shared with you what the finished molding looked like. Look how good that looks. I'll be putting on these gloves so that I don't stain my hands because that is very prominent with me. Oh my gosh. Should I go in? Scared? I'm shaking in my boots. It's so patchy. I think it just sucks it up so much. I think you would just have to keep putting more and more. All of these little cracks. So when I first started applying the stain it definitely was splotchy and it just looked uneven. It did not look good until I applied like an excess amount of stain and really like worked it into the wood. Almost like if you could imagine rubbing lotion onto something or like really like applying an excess amount and then just wiping away any of the excess gel stain that's on the surface. That's what really gave it like the most intense look. I was just scared of applying a bunch of it because it is super dark in the can but it does totally wipe off. Like it kind of just coats the surface, gives it a nice even finish and then you could wipe away all of the excess. That's what I really like about a gel stain is I feel like it's pretty forgiving and you have some time to work with it before it actually does dry down. So in about an hour we were able to do a third of the ceiling. Justin's working on this one right here but the stain is looking so good. I feel like it even matches the original beam really nicely. It would be pretty challenging to get like an identical match but I feel like this looks pretty good and I'm excited once we take the tape off to see how it kind of meshes together. Hello, good morning. The ceiling is done and it looks so, so good. Look at how good it looks. Like I should probably get out of the way so you can actually see. If anyone follows any LA based influencers you would know that we have had no sun over the past month. Like maybe a day or two out of the last month. So it's kind of challenging to show this in all of its glory because I feel like when it's sunny in here it's so pretty. I did actually have to repaint the entire room after doing the ceiling because the stain got all over the walls and we chose a flat paint. So it kind of sucked it up. I wanna share with you guys. So look at this. So this is a ceiling and then it transitions into here perfectly. It is so seamless. I love it. In this room it's a little warmer feeling just because of the stained glass that's in this room but it is such a perfect color match. You can even see with like the original beams we didn't even touch those at all and the color looks so good. This is kind of what it looks like when you're in here if I get up a little closer so you guys can see everything. It's really, really pretty and it's like perfect. I feel like we did such a great job. I'm not one to like praise my projects but I feel like this project really like it looks so great with the ceiling out here. I love it. And in the first video I shared with you the desk and the rug for this office space but as you know I'm wanting to do some stained glass windows over here so I'm thinking that might be my next video then bringing the office fully together. So probably about two more videos and this office is gonna be complete but I'll catch you all in my next one. If you are not already make sure to subscribe to the channel and click that bell icon. That way you get notified of new videos and I will catch you in my next one. Bye.