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Beadboard Living Room Ceiling

For five years Emily Wright stared up her house's "stomped stalactite ceilings" wishing they'd disappear. Then she came up with an inexpensive solution: DIY beadboard paneling that she and her husband, Shane Pribbel, were able to install themselves over the existing plasterwork.

Emily and Shane live in New Castle, Indiana, and she chronicles their home improvements in her blog Lifestyle and Design Online (currently on hiatus). "Most couples do normal things like go to dinner for quality time," says Emily. "Not us. We rip apart our kitchen and start over." Self-taught remodelers—"actually Shane did have a construction job one summer in high school," says Emily—the two have jointly tackled all of the work in their house themselves, including adding new windows and a new roof ("yes, I actually got up on the roof," she says) plus a gut renovation of the kitchen.

"We're both attention-to-details people. We watch a lot of How-To videos on YouTube, then we jump right in." The ceiling upgrade, Emily reports, was by far the most satisfying of their design solutions.

Photography via Lifestyle and Design Online.

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for a long time, the couple couldn&#8\2\17;t figure out an obvious tack to 9 — Above: For a long time, the couple couldn't figure out an obvious tack to take with the ceilings: "We felt stuck with them because tearing them down or re-drywalling are both messy, painful tasks," writes Emily in her blog. "We didn't want to go through the trauma of all that work."

thinking about coffered ceilings put emily on the right track: &#8\2\20;o 10 — Above: Thinking about coffered ceilings put Emily on the right track: "Our ceilings are only eight feet tall, so I knew a traditional coffered ceiling wouldn't work, but I finally figured out that we could cover them with beadboard and trim to create a lightly coffered look." The black pendant lamp is the Hektar Pendant Lamp from Ikea, $24.99.

the couple tackled one room at a time, including the ceiling in their newly ove 11 — Above: The couple tackled one room at a time, including the ceiling in their newly overhauled kitchen.

They used four-by-eight-foot sheets of White/Satin Hardboard Panels from Lowe's that cost $19.98 each. They nailed the premade beadboard directly in place—it holds well thanks to the fact that the existing plaster ceilings are backed with lath board. "Once the panels are up, the ceiling just needs to be trimmed out," says Emily. For the trim they used one-by-four-foot MDF boards installed in a grid. "Some paint and several tubes of caulk later, and you have a coffered-looking ceiling."

&#8\2\20;caulking and painting were by far the hardest part,&#8\2\2\1; 12 — Above: "Caulking and painting were by far the hardest part," reports Emily.

The walls, trim, and ceilings are painted in Valspar Ultra White from Lowe's. The small dining area has extra chairs cleverly hung on the wall, and a DIY Lindsey Adelman light—have a look at our post, A New $60 DIY Lindsey Adelman Pendant, for a similar (but easier) project.

the couple&#8\2\17;s black and white bedroom was where they first tested th 13 — Above: The couple's black and white bedroom was where they first tested the coffered ceiling idea.

Beadboard Living Room Ceiling

Source: https://www.remodelista.com/posts/rehab-diary-before-and-after-beadboard-ceiling/