the apartment on the bedstuy house tour had exposed ceiling beams… absolutly beautiful!
I have exposed beams in the living room in my garden floor in CG.
The last tenant removed the tin ceilings in order to open up the room– the landlord was not happy! This floor is only 6′ 6′ high so it was kind of helpful in making the room seem more airy. I do not have any problems with dirt. The only problem is that there is no material that serves as sound insulation to the bedroom above.
don’t love it. we just closed our beams up…the awful dust-the noise, and the dark feeling of heavy stripes above just wasn’t working for us. funny, because when we first bought the house, we liked the look. i thought that sheetrocking over the beams would make the space feel so much smaller, but, in fact, it was the opposite-it feels airy and clean now…
I like the video tidbits also but that theme music somehow annoys me.
this place has the 4 inch sub floor- which is what is being used as the floor. The wife doesn’t like it much for the kitchen because it’s pretty hard to seal it perfectly so food gets in the cracks.
I think it looks beautiful. And so does Mr. B.
I’ve only seen or heard of people exposing the beams on the ground floor, and maybe one example of the top floor. Neither of these floors are historic recipients of decorative plaster ceilings, as they were both service floors, for the most part. While I agree that EXTERIOR details should be respected, I don’t think people should have to feel that they live in a museum. Most of us who have had to change the original use of brownstone rooms, in order to accomodate apartments, or even kitchens, bathrooms, etc, have made choices of what to keep, what to reposition or partition off. With that in mind, I think ceilings can be fair game.
People do all kinds of non period, or out of style things to their homes. Some things can come out looking great – those beams in the video look really good. How many people have Tuscan kitchens in 19th century houses? Turkish bathrooms, or French country bedrooms? Some things come out better than others, but we all like to incorporate our culture and travels into the places we live.
I hear you, Guest 11:05– technically you’re right. But somehow it works for me; there would have been a cast-iron stove, possibly an outhouse out back. The beams don’t seem out of place. Question: Anybody know what kind of floors these places had? Wide planks?
the ceilings in the floors are pretty low. with the beams opened up the room feels much bigger. there wasn’t any detail to begin with and the ceiling was falling in
the apartment on the bedstuy house tour had exposed ceiling beams… absolutly beautiful!
I have exposed beams in the living room in my garden floor in CG.
The last tenant removed the tin ceilings in order to open up the room– the landlord was not happy! This floor is only 6′ 6′ high so it was kind of helpful in making the room seem more airy. I do not have any problems with dirt. The only problem is that there is no material that serves as sound insulation to the bedroom above.
don’t love it. we just closed our beams up…the awful dust-the noise, and the dark feeling of heavy stripes above just wasn’t working for us. funny, because when we first bought the house, we liked the look. i thought that sheetrocking over the beams would make the space feel so much smaller, but, in fact, it was the opposite-it feels airy and clean now…
I like the video tidbits also but that theme music somehow annoys me.
this place has the 4 inch sub floor- which is what is being used as the floor. The wife doesn’t like it much for the kitchen because it’s pretty hard to seal it perfectly so food gets in the cracks.
I think it looks beautiful. And so does Mr. B.
I’ve only seen or heard of people exposing the beams on the ground floor, and maybe one example of the top floor. Neither of these floors are historic recipients of decorative plaster ceilings, as they were both service floors, for the most part. While I agree that EXTERIOR details should be respected, I don’t think people should have to feel that they live in a museum. Most of us who have had to change the original use of brownstone rooms, in order to accomodate apartments, or even kitchens, bathrooms, etc, have made choices of what to keep, what to reposition or partition off. With that in mind, I think ceilings can be fair game.
People do all kinds of non period, or out of style things to their homes. Some things can come out looking great – those beams in the video look really good. How many people have Tuscan kitchens in 19th century houses? Turkish bathrooms, or French country bedrooms? Some things come out better than others, but we all like to incorporate our culture and travels into the places we live.
I hear you, Guest 11:05– technically you’re right. But somehow it works for me; there would have been a cast-iron stove, possibly an outhouse out back. The beams don’t seem out of place. Question: Anybody know what kind of floors these places had? Wide planks?
the ceilings in the floors are pretty low. with the beams opened up the room feels much bigger. there wasn’t any detail to begin with and the ceiling was falling in