Coffered Ceilings in Port Huron, MI

That means a beamed ceiling in a Port Huron bungalow is not an addition to the house, it is a feature many of them originally had and a good number have lost to a dropped ceiling or a plasterboard cover-up. The first thing we do in these houses is look, because original beams survive above later ceilings more often than people expect, and uncovering and restoring them is a much better outcome than building new. Where they are genuinely gone, we build box beams to the correct Craftsman section — square, plain, with a simple stop rather than a moulded profile — and land them on the plate rail height the room already has. That restraint is the whole thing: a deep moulded coffer of the kind that suits a Victorian dining room is wrong in a bungalow, and it is the most common mistake made in these houses. In the larger nineteenth-century houses on the other side of the city, the fuller coffered treatment is appropriate and we build it there, worked around any surviving plaster cornice.

We check for original beams before quoting new ones. Whatever we build is set out on site against your existing plate rail, picture rail and light positions.

Port Huron is about thirty miles from our Chesterfield shop, at the north end of the river run we work every week.