Foam to Faux Ceiling Beams: DIY
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- Exposed ceiling beams, a living room's way of showing a little skin. I'll show you how I made these out of different material than wood, that was cheaper and easier to install.
Yes, this foam could be a fire hazard, this video is meant for entertainment purposes ONLY, copy at your own risk and peril blah blah blah….
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They look great. The next homeowner is going to have quite the surprise when he/she tries to hang a lamp or something on those beautiful beams. LOL
I’ve thought about that! I’d love to see the reaction some day when something along those lines happens
😂😮😆😆lol
I pretend to be a wood worker. I made a faux beam out of wood to use as a mantle for fireplace. I too did not want the look of a box made with butt joints, so I miter cut the pieces. The project turned out pretty good, but it was really a challenge. I don’t ever want to do that again. On a fun note, I turned the mantle into a time capsule. Inside it I put a current newspaper, I few dollars and coins, small toys and trinkets. When the next person comes along, and decides the ly do not like my mantle, they will find what I left behind and will smile hopefully. I also wrote a little letter to whoever finds it in the future. Your project looked great and was very well done. Great idea and execution!
That’s a great idea about a Time capsule!! I love it!!🥰
Awesome idea on the time capsule!
It's a fun idea. There are several small "art projects" hidden throughout our current whole house remodel, and my kid is going to have friends over to paint the subfloor in the living room with artwork for next person who replaces the floors.
@@mtcrabtree when we demo’d part of an older home (built 1962) for a ‘open concept’ type remodel, inside a surprisingly large wall cavity was a surprise…the house was new when bought by the grandfather of the guy we bought it from (who we had gotten to know a bit, and he was a prankster). During one of their projects they had staged an old shirt, raggedy jeans, shoes, glasses and a ballcap, and a couple beer cans and Taco Bell wrappers!! Like a worker had been trapped inside the wall! But the coup de grace was they’d filled the clothing with sawdust. And left a note of course, which was hilarious. Instead of calling him when we discovered it, we took pictures and made a ShutterFly Christmas card posing with the “lost worker”.
I am a finish carpenter and I can tell you , you did an amazing job!!
Wow I'd never in a million years know this was not wood beams. These look fantastic!
Thanks Alice!
Hell yeah! From one dad to another, I respect your frugalness.
This is a great idea for people like me that don't know anything about wood working. Good job on being so creative.
I just did this last October to use as Halloween props. I used a wire brush for smaller grain and the back end of skinny paint brushes of different sizes for deeper grain texture and make it look a bit more aged. I used a knife to shave off circular pieces to imitate knots in the wood. I then painted it with several shades of brown and used a watered down black paint to fill in the grain and add some depth. I then coated it with matte mod podge to seal it. When it was done I used Velcro strips to stick them up on my windows. I hung a few boards over each window to make make house look like an old abandoned house that was boarded up. We even had a couple over the front door and handed out the candy between the boards. It’s a time consuming project, especially when waiting for each shade of brown to dry when using 5 or 6 colors to really age it. Next year I might get some shades of green and grey and use a sponge to dab it on and give it a mossy effect
I know someone who bought a house with faux beams. Actually, they were real wood, but added after the ceiling was put in for that... look. They took them out, and the room looked so much better. The previous owners had done some weird stuff to the house. They even had a square of tile in the hallway that matched no other tile in the house. It wasn't something fancy decorative or anything. It was just random. A lot of things the previous owners had done were just random.
You are pretty good at making faux beams, dude. Average dad, maybe. Expert faux painter, absolutely!
Great work! I thought I was the only crazy one using foam for anything but it’s intended purpose. That looks awesome!
Thanks TGB
I have a 10x16 shed that I wanted a wood tongue and groove ceiling in, but I didn’t want the weight. I used foam sheets as well. I cut them down into 7 inch strips on table saw. Then I used a tongue and groove but on my router table and made all the boards tongue and groove including on the ends. Then I also chamfered the edges.Then I used a wire brush to create the grain and knots the same way you did. I painted them all with gloss white paint. Then I used a grey glaze and spread over them. The grey settled down into the texture. I then used construction adhesive to glue them to the ceiling as I put the pieces together. The nice thing about having t and g in the ends is everything lies flat in the same plane. The ceiling is very convincing and no one knows it’s foam unless I tell them!
MAKE A VIDEO of it... even if you only use the pictures...
WE want to SEE it.
Do you have any photos or videos of this?
I’ll try to remember to take some
This is the ceiling in the shed
@@judichristopher4604I just uploaded a short video of it.
This would be a great way to quiet a large room with vaulted ceilings. Big rooms can get pretty loud and sound dampening is a challenge. Thus could be really cost effective for aesthetics and function.
THIS is Phenomenal! I will be using this downstairs to hide some of the wires and ducting in the ceiling.
If I learn just one thing from any video, I feel like my time was invested and not wasted. Your video was a great return on investment!! Just the tape on the screws trick was enough, but your detailed explanations and “tests” were awesome. I know how much time it takes to shoot, edit, and voice-over a video so I really appreciate the effort you made to produce and share that with us. Thank you!
thanks Philip!
I was skeptical at first, but I'm not gonna lie. Those do look pretty legit!
As a Wood worker & framing carpenter who built houses, pretty good job! I'm thinking about doing some beams in my new house in the basement once it gets built. A few suggestions though. Stagger the seams so they all won't be at the same place. You could also use a wire paint stripper to give it a rougher look. The type that has the metal roto stripper (think coat hangers). Make some bigger gouges in some spots. A heat gun might make the surface a little rougher too before you scrap it. Something sort of a crust like, but keep heat gun far away to prevent melting it.
I enjoy woodworking so I would never make these. But this video is amazing … and I watched the entire thing.
I was quite surprised how good it looked. Nice!
Thanks Kman!
that looks so real. you nailed the wood grain
thanks Keki
actually, he screwed it.
Your beams look amazing!!! Pink foam is amazing for faking stuff! It carves beautifully too!
Wow! Very creative and they look fantastic! My hubby and I were going to purchase faux beams, but now we are going to diy it using your example. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Judy and thanks for the comment, good luck!
Just bought a house and looked into adding beams. They are very expensive right now, so I’m going to try this method
Thank you for this video
Of course, good luck!
Nice. A woodgraining tool takes a long time to learn to use, without developing a repetitive technique, that shows up after you thought you were doing so well!
I was skeptical at the beginning, but these turned out really well. Very nice job and a really innovative approach.
This is what I’d like to do in our small living room - maybe three of them. We have a crack that never stays fixed because it’s where the room was extended, and I think it would be perfect.
Nothing stops you from adding cheap veneer or wrap to the foam either. Another great idea would be using this for hiding home theater installs and/or LED wiring. Much safer also vs going through walls and risking damage to underlying utilities.
I never would have thought about using foam insulation to make faux beams. That’s an interesting idea.
Came for the artsy yet ludicrous nature of this project, but I am now humbled by your achievement. The tape on the screws was definitely worth the time.
I’d suggest that you celebrate the joints on your next beams with a barn or ship style angled joint. We did that many years ago in a condo my uncle bought. He wanted to hide the concrete seams in the dock planking pour of his building with faux beams. We couldn’t get full 14 foot long beams on the elevators. We used old tools to recreate the hand hewn look and cut 27 degree angles into the seven foot sections to accept faux wedges and bolts.
I made 4x 30 feet beams for my living room and they look amazing! it worked like a charm! Looks awesome! Like real wood, thanks for the idea! I finally got my beams, on a real low budget!!! I used interior water based paint( light ash color) and a water based dark walnut stain over it. Joint compound to hide the seams where the boards met. Hot glue worked great for me to glue them together, dries quickly! And yes we also made some test board before to exercise making the wood faux wire brush design and also to try the diff. stains.
Hey Katja, that’s great to hear! Glad it worked out for you
Thanks to your very encouraging and informative video, i also saved sooo much MONEY!@@AverageDadChannel
I love this. Might do this outside in my covered porch as a faux wall
Thanks Rob! If it’s outside I’d make sure to use both outdoor stain and outdoor paint so it’s not as easily damaged by UV, good luck if you do it!
Awesome job. Wow. I would have pointed out the wood beams when selling that house. Awesome job
Thank you, appreciate the quick response. We are actually building some 21 foot beams on a sloped ceiling, angles,
UGH!!!
Nice! You not only saved money but also weight.
Yes, nice peace of mind when my kids are below them most of the day
They turned put looking great ngl. Nice job
What a great idea beautifully done
Looks AMAZING… I’m gonna try it!! Thanks for sharing your well executed home improvement!!
Thanks Helena, good luck
Super impressed! They look great!
Absolutely brilliant. Well done.
So freekin' impressed! They're beautiful & so very real looking. You'd never guess they weren't.
👏😄
(My parents installed store-bought foam beams in our dining room, in the 70s. They were a similar yellow foam & colored to look like hand-hewn walnut. Not bad looking, as I remember. The ceiling was very low & the beams added a colonial/English tavern feel to the room. Unfortunately the shag carpeting kinda messed up the ambience, lol :)
I LOVE THIS VIDEO...
Turned out SOOOO BEAUTIFUL
I really enjoyed watching your method. You were also fun to listen to. Of course, people that comment are going to criticize and poke holes into your creativity but who cares -I think they came out fantastic. You are really ambitious. Great results.
Very nice job and makes sense for the cost weight and ease of the project. Had no idea the foam could be transformed like that, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for commenting!
Wow! They came out really good!! 👍🏼
Thanks Jennifer, I appreciate it
I started to mock out an upper cabinet with foam board bc so cheap vs wood. I kinda thought full mock-up but figured too expensive. But really not as you taught. But mine is a ground cabinet. So close to eye and touch. Still wouldn’t work. But it looks awesome. I may still try it just to play with it a bit now. Awesome job
These look awesome!
This was a fantastic idea!
Great work man, they look so convincing!
The beams turned out great! Your texturing looks amazing! I like how it turned out. If I ever try it, hopefully it looks that good!
They look cool. Well done. 👍🏼
Wow, you did a great job! And you put a really good video together, showing the steps along the way. Well done!
Thanks Eric, appreciate it
Great video! Thanks for making it.
EXCELLENT VIDEO...
Love this video
Thank you so much for sharing
Awesome video , Fun project
Nice work man those look amazing
Fantastic job.
I have a support beam in my condo which is unsightly to say the least. I'm going to use your idea to surround the support beam. Thanks!!!!!
Great job mate
This is an amazing video. Very clever. Great cost saver.
Thanks Melissa!
Looks very good.
Thanks Don
Cut the hole in the wood and then use a heat gun to make melt a little bit making the KNOT in the wood look real.
Spray Alcohol ( a little bit) and on the bare foam it will melt the foam a little bit making it look like tiny holes in the wood.
Cut long groves in the foam... and "V" groves... and us the heat gun to heat the long groves... making it look real.
I am enthralled!
Wow, that looks amazing I will be trying this for sure. Good Job!
Thank you and thanks for commenting, good luck!
Very nice, they look great ❤❤❤
Great video, I've always wanted to make beams..
Thanks so much for posting this!
Looks Great! Miter those seems and you would have saved a bunch of time, you could have also just assembled in place, with the miters all you'd need is a brown felt pen to touch up where the miter is not perfect. All that filling and sanding and reshaping took a bunch of time you could have saved by just setting your saw to 45 when you made those initial rips.
Loved your video
this is fantastic! well done
Really nice work.
Thanks Jim
Great work!
Awesome job
Looks great!
It's not remotely close to be interesting, it's SOOOOOO interesting 👏👏👏👏👏👏
OMG Can You Do The Slat Wood Panels Next?! I’m Inspired This Is Brilliant 🤎
Next video is in the works and may include wood vertical slats 👀
Looks great!!!!
This is amazing! I'd been looking for a solution like this.
You are a genius !! Thank you !
Blending could of been easier and seamless if done on the ground prior. Awesome. I will be using this trick at home
DUDE! Great job!
As someone that builds wood faux beans, this is next level 😅
You nailed it!
Dude you are a genius! I've been wanting to add beams to my great room's cathedral ceiling, but real beams are too heavy, pre-made foam faux beams are too expensive and beams made with 1 X lumber always shows the joints no matter how good your 45's are. I've used the pink foam board insulation for displays before and I'm the king of using the faux wood graining tool with paint, but I never thought of putting the two things together.
My only suggestion / improvement will be to alternately splice the pieces to create a beam longer than 8' so I won't have to do any splicing, patching, staining at the ceiling level.
Well done!
This is amazing! I am going to take on this project!
Good luck!
PRETTY GOOD!
"If I was into wood working enough to know that do you think I would be making beams out of foam?" "So for the minority of people watching this who actually try to build these..." Love the humor.
And, as fate would have it, I'm watching on a Tuesday so I'm compelled to subscribe.
My question: the video is only a couple of months old; assuming this project was for your own home, what are your thoughts after having lived with them for a bit? Are they convincing enough for YOU? My fear is that -knowing what they *are* would mess with my mind and that it would be difficult to get over the artificial-ness of it -even though so many other things (laminate/vinyl flooring, backsplash, tile etc are often artificial imitations of natural materials...
Coincidentally I have a similar space with a similar colored chimney (which in my case is entirely artificial as my fireplace is electric lol)
Wonderful video, I enjoyed your humor and detail.
Okay, I like it! I like it alot for the innovation too
Great job
Looks good
I'm with u dude cheat DIY always comes together GREAT JOJ.
Wood grain tool work’s Amazing actually. Kinda need to just keep trying. Do one pull/drag at a time and make sure the pull or drag you will be doing with the wood grain tool the strip of paint is damp with whatever color you are using. And do one pull/drag at a time. And you can overlap each drag also. I’ve only done it with paint only latex, acrylic, I have never attempted it with stain. A think that right there is a huge issue because imo wood grain tool works best on a non-porous surface . Hope this helps. Either way you’re beams. Look freaking awesome! Nice work!
I love this idea.
And it looks great, you did well.
Liked and subscribed love this idea!!!
Thanks Mason
Cheers
Great job man!
Thanks Benjamin!
Looks great
Thanks Kelly!
wow.. unreal what an amazing idea, now make a set of foam speakers with sound exciters... same effect
Excellent!
These look great
Thanks Crystal
Great video
Thank you 🙏🏾
No worries about kickback, that's also a plus. 🤪