Got some good advice in an earlier discussion, and got a copy of the jlc article so the constructtion phase is gonna be quite doable.
But the design … or layout … bigger problem. The room is not square, it’s about 12 ft x 15 ft with a chamfereed corner. If I use uniform square coffers, there’s a lot of leftover in one direction. I’m starting with a beam of 7 inches and coffers of about 30-36 inches.
Is it accptable to use rectangular coffers? How big of a soffit (for lack of a better word) would look ok? Does a grid of 3×4 coffers sound about right? And when I get to the chamfered corner, should I omit that coffer or make it triangular or 5-sided to follow the wall?
I know this is all subjective, but I wonder how others have handled it in the past.
I’m sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
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I have seen them with the square coffers centered in the room and then rectangular coffers filling in the edges. Also with the angled or semi circular coffers to fill in the irregular shapes .
Thanks. If you've seen it somewhere, then it must be official. :)
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
I framed mine with I-joists run the short way and short pieces of I joists hung on joist hangers the other way. It is the floor of our loftso the framing is structural. I laid it out by figuring 10" soffit around the room and then divided the remainder into equal parts. That gave me rectanges of about 23" by 32". The ratio of the soffits to the 23" dimension resulted in a nice look.