Box Beam Vs Coffered Ceiling

This looks way to deep and wide for me.

Box beam vs coffered ceiling.

Today most coffered ceilings are decorative interior elements and hence the ceiling must be able to hold the weight of the beams. A vital consideration is the material used for the construction of the box beam grid system because it will affect the installation. What is a box ceiling. Tray ceilings are almost always wrapped in drywall and plaster and finished with some off the shelf flavor of crown molding.

Both ceiling types feature recessed ceiling sections above geometric arrangements of box beams or deep molding. Coffered and tray ceilings add architectural interest to a room by adding detail and depth the ceiling expanse. This classic design element can be installed in virtually any room and incorporated into any design scheme. Add character with a box beam ceiling.

Our ceilings are 11 high. If you have a pic to post that would be great too. Right now the width and depth of each beam is 12 without trim. To bal ance the design i ran a box beam on the right side of the fireplace parallel to and the same size as the wrapped lvl.

Another name for a box beam ceiling is a coffered ceiling. Although coffered ceilings draw the eye upward the beams extend downward into a room taking up some overhead space. Though coffered and tray ceilings share some characteristics and decorative options they do have distinct differences. And the weight of the beams depends on the material size design and dimension.

The rooms are about 14 x 18 each. A box beam ceiling is a design element that features hollow beams affixed to the ceiling to create a repeating box pattern. Coffered ceilings also can be designed to include a much broader variety of material expressions such as installing a box beam ceiling. Because most of the lvl was buried in the ceiling i was able to make the two bigger box beams appear to carry the structural beam.

It looks way too heavy for me. In this online member article builder joseph lanza shares some advice and tips on how to build box beams that can be used as the basis for coffered ceilings. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us.