So now we head inside. If you’re thinking about selling your home, the kitchen is a major determining factor for most potential home buyers. It’s typically the place to be and be seen when you’re at home – cooking, eating, talking about your day, or just hanging out with the fam. So it’s important that the kitchen look its best.

Custom Aspen Beams	Timber Beams

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to undergo a large-scale, expensive overhaul, but a fresh coat of paint on the walls, replacing counter top tile and maybe staining or painting the cabinets goes a long way.

But don’t forget to look up! The ceiling is a major surface area in the room, and should be given its due attention. Many of our customers have used different styles of our faux wood beams to enhance the look of their kitchen ceilings, with great results. Second only to looking great, these homeowners saved even more money with the ability to install the beams themselves.

Custom Woodland Beams

Your kitchen already checked off your list? See faux wood beams in action in other rooms and get even more ideas to get your home sell-ready.

You might be surprised to learn that this home’s luxurious kitchen, complete with state-of-the-art appliances, stainless steel pendant lights and slab stone counters, was also outfitted with faux wood beams on its ceiling.

Faux wood beams can be a considerable design asset for the any homeowner, not just for cycling superstars with a team of first-class designers and unlimited resources. A fraction of the cost of real wood beams, homeowners with even a very modest budget can achieve this look themselves with just a little time and a little creativity.

Faux beams – like our high-density polyurethane models – are popular among builders and homeowners, not only for their price, ease of installation and durable material, but also for their incredible imitation of real wood’s coloring and grain texture. Certified kitchen designer (CKD) and author of The Kitchen Designer blog, Susan Serra maintains that unless structural beams are required, even the most upscale design projects will include faux beams on their ceilings and walls.

So there’s really no need to wistfully put down the magazine and imagine what could be. Take a look at this huge range of beam styles available and start making that dream a reality!

Read more about Lance’s kitchen and the faux beams featured in Architectural Digest.

Faux Wood Beams in SoCal Home

One consideration is a home’s ceiling beams. A real wooden beam that can weigh up to hundreds of pounds can be a somewhat ominous thing to have hanging over your head during an earthquake. Homeowners or builders may want to take their safety precautions a step further by choosing polyurethane wood for their ceiling beams rather than traditional wood. A typical faux wood beam weighs an average of 20 lbs, so if in the event of an earthquake or heavy winds strong enough to cause a beam to fall, the lightweight faux version would cause a lot less damage or chance of injury.

Tammy from Southern California sent in the photo of her beautifully finished kitchen and living rooms area with Timber faux wood beams and wrote, “The faux wood beams were the way to go for me. The first reason I looked into them was I live in So. Cal and I wasn’t sold on having a heavy wood beam on the ceiling and the chance of it not holding up in an earthquake…When the project was complete everyone complimented on how beautiful it was and no one even knew it was faux!”

Brenda and her family from Santa Rosa, CA installed Woodland faux wood ceiling beams in their kitchen as an “easy and a fun project to do together”. Brenda sent us these photos to show off the beautiful final result. Way to go!