Faux Wood Workshop

We were honored and excited to once again be a part of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Really, you have to be there to understand just what it feels like to be part of that great effort. Exciting and worthwhile and great people and hard work. Great combo.

This time we were able to help the Williams’ family, of Pine Mountain Valley, GA. Their story is inspiring. The family of four had been living in a space much too small for two disabled family members—football coach father Jeremy has Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) and the Williams’ young son, Jacob, is paralyzed from the waist down due to spina bifida. EMHE, with the help of football star Michael Oher and pop singer Demi Lovato, swept in to give the Williams’ the home of their dreams.

We donated materials for two different rooms. Take a look at what we did — it might give you some ideas for your own projects.

Faux wood beams played a major role in daughter Josie’s bedroom makeover. Rustic Barn Wood faux panels and Timber Ceiling Beams helped give horse-lover Josie a brilliant equestrian-themed room, complete with a faux horse stall and hay sofa.

In keeping with the country feel of the room, we installed our Brown Rustic Barn Wood as wainscoting panels around the room. The faux wood paneling was two panels high and cut at intervals to accommodate the long shuttered windows. Then we used faux timber planks to add a ledge to the wainscoting and frame the top section of the windows.

To finish the ceiling, we lined straight Timber faux ceiling beams, accented with beam straps, along most of the ceiling. We also used two cross beams above the horse stall area.

The EMHE team chose the Pecky Cypress faux beams to spice up the kitchen’s vaulted ceiling. You can create this look in your own home by placing one long beam to run the length of the ceiling, and then use six smaller beams to attach perpendicularly to the beam on one side and the wall on the other. Then just cut window headers to size to complete the look.

We are so proud to be a part of this deserving family’s gift.

On the April 4th Beach Family episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the team ventured to build the “Tree Fort Room”, using our donated faux wood Timber Planks and Barn Wood panels on the walls. Many of us in our childhood have attempted to build a fort of some type or another, be it in a tree, a snowbank or even with blankets in the living room. This project took that idea a hundred times further for the ultimate fortress fantasy.

“When we opened the door to our room, it was just so amazing.
We immediately felt like we were at home…it felt like a fort.”

The designers wanted the room to look like it appeared straight out of a kids’ imagination, with a little Robinson Crusoe thrown in. To seem as if it was built by a child, our faux wood Timber Planks were positioned at crooked angles, each bottom and top individually cut and mitered to join perfectly with the wainscoting underneath (created with Rustic Barn Wood Panels from FauxPanels.com). Cutting each plank at a different angle was a time-consuming task to say the least, but totally worth it!

Watch the video to see the boys’ reaction to seeing the Tree Fort Room for the first time, or browse through more photos of the room here. Keep your eye out for our planks and panels!