On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:14:13 -0600, Terry Coombs
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On 1/25/2020 4:18 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:33:04 -0600, Terry Coombs
wrote:

On 1/25/2020 12:06 PM, Gary wrote:
Cindy Hamilton wrote:
Gary wrote:
trader_4 wrote:
I would expect the poster is talking about a stained wood ceiling.
Otherwise, what's the point to a wood ceiling?
Wood ceilings and walls are often painted. It's for the texture
not the grain showing plus painted will brighten up the room.
If you're going to paint it anyway, you may as well use drywall.
I curse the previous owners of my house who painted the woodwork.
Well, as I said, painting paneled wood on walls or ceilings is
for that richer look rather than just a plain flat surface.

Most times I see this, or have done it, it's an older house
where originally the owners wanted the wood grain look then
eventually tire of it and want to brighten up the room and
get it painted. You would be surprised just how much the room
looks brighter and larger.

Also new owners might not want that dark room at all and get
it painted.

I painted my walnut stained kitchen cabinets to white, and a
nice pastel aqua on the walls. Boy oh boy, what a huge
difference that made. My small dark kitchen just really opened
up and appears so much larger. I still love it.
* I'm doing the vaulted ceiling of our kitchen/dining area with
Southern Yellow Pine "car siding"* - 1x6 beveled edge tongue and groove
boards . The color is very light and the finish is a Minwax crystal
clear waterborne product . We haven't decided on cabinet wood species ,
but it will NOT be stained dark . I like white oak ... but A/C fir has
it's merits too . Whatever we use will be finished light in color . This
is a big room at 24x24 , with a lot of windows on the southern exposure
, and we want it light and bright . I've lived in enough older houses
with small rooms smaller windows . Flooring throughout will be medium
light solid oak .

Did our kitchen in natural grey ash. Looks pretty much like natural
white oak. Did the livingroom and diningroom floors in ash as well -
with a light "honey" stain. The finish on the kitchen has darkened
somewhat from age/UV so it has a bit of a "honey" tone to it as well.
With the ash borer infestation ash lumber is very plentiful - and I
used a local mill - so the ash flooring was a significant savings over
oak

* I like ash , but it's not common here . Oak - red and white , Hickory
, some Maple . And I've got a patch of sweet gum that's probably close
to a full acre or more and mostly big trees but around here it's
considered a trash tree . I've worked with gum before , it can be quite
beautiful . The problem would be finding someone to mill it into
flooring for me at a reasonable cost . Then there'd be the cost of
sanding/finishing , and the mess ... I think I'll stay with my original
plan and install 3/4 prefinished oak . Being able to do this myself is
saving me a ton of money . I figure when this place is finished it'll be
worth between 3 and 5 times the cash I spent .
My ash flooring was all per-finished. Sweet Gum makes beautiful
trim. My wife's house when we got married was all gum trim.
Give you a good excuse to buy a nice portable saw-mill, planer and
shaper - - - -