How To Cover Popcorn Ceiling With Wood

If the old ceiling is reliably flat you can install the paneling right over the old drywall.

How to cover popcorn ceiling with wood. I had the painted planks everywhere in the backyard. Rodney helped me with this job. These planks come in a variety of colors and finishes including driftwood gray natural cherry beadboard and rustic pine.

Cypress is light flexible dimensionally stable it takes finishes well it s easy to cut and has a lot of color variation. How to cover popcorn ceiling with beadboard to do this we needed to get enough beadboard to cover that area which was three 4 x8 sections of beadboard. Finding a way to dry them was a little more challenging.

The planks covered popcorn very well and crows feet textured ceiling usually isn t as thick as popcorn so i don t think you ll have any issues with the wood planks covering it. They beckon with the shimmer of patterned metal the richness of wood the delightful charm of beadboard or the essence of old world plaster. Covering the ceiling with traditional tongue and groove wood planks or beadboard paneling that you can buy through any quality lumber supplier.

The boards we used are very thin so there wasn t an issue with adding the small depth around the vents and fixtures. This is the old school option. Using a small foam roller really worked well.

Covering a popcorn ceiling with tongue and groove paneling. The most common type of wood we found being used on ceilings was yellow pine. Covering popcorn ceilings with planks.

Here is the lovely popcorn ceiling. We chose 6 inch v groove cypress boards to cover the popcorn ceiling. We also needed trim for the edges and chose 1 x3 pine boards to cover the rough edges.