& oak timber ceiling beams from an 1860’s barn located in Houston County, Minnesota. The pine timbers are from an 1870’s barn in Marshfield, Minnesota.
Photos by Susan Gilmore
Do you know size of living room beams? 10x12 maybe?
How are the 10x8 beams installed? How did you attached and hang them?
Note how ceiling timbers disappear into the wall to the left, but are anchored on the substantial beam to the right.
Room is 13 x 30 approx.
beams, wood ceiling, trim on windows
Should we consider this beam style?
ceiling and beams in master and hallway of
lower half
view of ceiling, love the colors here.
Like a wooden ceiling but it would probably be cost prohibitive
The oak ceiling timbers came from a Minnesota barn built in the 1860s; the pine boards, from another Minnesota barn built in the 1870s. The flooring came from a Wisconsin barn built in the 1880s. "The joint details were something that our office researched and drew into the details of our architectural