• In this video, This Old House contributor Chris Beidel, owner of Pernt, a handmade-furniture company in Brooklyn, New York, walks you through this ceiling beautification project.

    Steps
    1. Locate the joists
    2. Make a deadman
    3. Cut a beam
    4. Nail the beam in place
    5. Scribe the perimeter crossbeams
    6. Cut along the scribe
    7. Shim the seam
    8. Snap a chalk line
    9. Cut the main beams
    10. Cut the crossbeams
    11. Mark joint locations on the crossbeams
    12. Toenail the joints
    13. Scribe the molding
    14. Finish-cut the molding
    15. Glue and nail the molding
    16. Prep and paint