Well, I’ve decided that I’ll post the only other pics that I had scanned and converted the other day as the spa pictures seemed to be pretty well received and I didn’t get bruised or bloody from exposing my work to you all.

Actually, these were the pics that I initially intended to post in reference to post here a week or so ago concerning coffered ceilings. As I recall, the poster was thinking about building coffered ceilings, but was unsure of the appropriateness of such because of only 8′ ceilings.

I thought I might post these pics as a source of inspiration to design and install something that might offer a better resolution while still having somewhat of a dramatic effect on the room’s appearance, but by the time I’d scanned the photos, the post was gone.

We had a similar request for coffered ceilings for a client whose office ceilings were also too low, IMHO, to visually support such an arrangement without developing a “looming”, almost claustrophobic effect. So we drew up this design and got the “go ahead”.

It offers the feeling of much wood overhead without actually being there, except for the ceiling fan medallion. The pictures, I’m afraid, don’t do much to convey this feeling as I had to take them with a wide-angle lens, but if you walked into the space, I think you’d agree.

As you can see, I think, the arrangement is mounted so that a ½” reveal is present at both the ceiling and the wall. This, IMHO, not only offers an extra touch of class, but circumnavigates the need to deal with wavering walls and ceiling. The ceiling medallion is also mounted with this ½” reveal on a two-piece track system that we built in the shop just for this project.

I hand-turned the ceiling medallion, which is approx. 44″ in diameter, on a lathe in my brother’s shop as mine is incapable of turning at slow enough speeds to perform this job without losing either your head and/or maybe a few fingers. All other components were fabricated from scratch in my shop. If you look closely, you can see that the turned inner ring on the medallion is the mirrored form of the cove molding on the wall pieces. The home was built in the forties and so we tried to use architecturally appropriate styles in the design.

Coloring was done to match to the existing woodwork of the room although because of exposures to the outside, in a couple of the shots the color looks erroneously dark. It’s the lighter color that you see in the shots without the windows involved that portrays the actual colors.

All pieces were finished with MagnaMax, a catalyzed lacquer, on this project.