They look great. The next homeowner is going to have quite the surprise when he/she tries to hang a lamp or something on those beautiful beams. LOL

I pretend to be a wood worker. I made a faux beam out of wood to use as a mantle for fireplace. I too did not want the look of a box made with butt joints, so I miter cut the pieces. The project turned out pretty good, but it was really a challenge. I don’t ever want to do that again. On a fun note, I turned the mantle into a time capsule. Inside it I put a current newspaper, I few dollars and coins, small toys and trinkets. When the next person comes along, and decides the ly do not like my mantle, they will find what I left behind and will smile hopefully. I also wrote a little letter to whoever finds it in the future. Your project looked great and was very well done. Great idea and execution!

I was skeptical at first, but I'm not gonna lie. Those do look pretty legit!

I am a finish carpenter and I can tell you , you did an amazing job!!

Wow I'd never in a million years know this was not wood beams. These look fantastic!

This is a great idea for people like me that don't know anything about wood working. Good job on being so creative.

You are pretty good at making faux beams, dude. Average dad, maybe. Expert faux painter, absolutely!

Great work! I thought I was the only crazy one using foam for anything but it’s intended purpose. That looks awesome!

I have a 10x16 shed that I wanted a wood tongue and groove ceiling in, but I didn’t want the weight. I used foam sheets as well. I cut them down into 7 inch strips on table saw. Then I used a tongue and groove but on my router table and made all the boards tongue and groove including on the ends. Then I also chamfered the edges.Then I used a wire brush to create the grain and knots the same way you did. I painted them all with gloss white paint. Then I used a grey glaze and spread over them. The grey settled down into the texture. I then used construction adhesive to glue them to the ceiling as I put the pieces together. The nice thing about having t and g in the ends is everything lies flat in the same plane. The ceiling is very convincing and no one knows it’s foam unless I tell them!

This would be a great way to quiet a large room with vaulted ceilings. Big rooms can get pretty loud and sound dampening is a challenge. Thus could be really cost effective for aesthetics and function.

If I learn just one thing from any video, I feel like my time was invested and not wasted. Your video was a great return on investment!! Just the tape on the screws trick was enough, but your detailed explanations and “tests” were awesome. I know how much time it takes to shoot, edit, and voice-over a video so I really appreciate the effort you made to produce and share that with us. Thank you!

As a Wood worker & framing carpenter who built houses, pretty good job! I'm thinking about doing some beams in my new house in the basement once it gets built. A few suggestions though. Stagger the seams so they all won't be at the same place. You could also use a wire paint stripper to give it a rougher look. The type that has the metal roto stripper (think coat hangers). Make some bigger gouges in some spots. A heat gun might make the surface a little rougher too before you scrap it. Something sort of a crust like, but keep heat gun far away to prevent melting it.

I was quite surprised how good it looked. Nice!

I am a diy with a long history of woodwork projects and you are awesome!

"If I was into wood working enough to know that do you think I would be making beams out of foam?" "So for the minority of people watching this who actually try to build these..." Love the humor. And, as fate would have it, I'm watching on a Tuesday so I'm compelled to subscribe. My question: the video is only a couple of months old; assuming this project was for your own home, what are your thoughts after having lived with them for a bit? Are they convincing enough for YOU? My fear is that -knowing what they *are* would mess with my mind and that it would be difficult to get over the artificial-ness of it -even though so many other things (laminate/vinyl flooring, backsplash, tile etc are often artificial imitations of natural materials... Coincidentally I have a similar space with a similar colored chimney (which in my case is entirely artificial as my fireplace is electric lol) Wonderful video, I enjoyed your humor and detail.

that looks so real. you nailed the wood grain

Your beams look amazing!!! Pink foam is amazing for faking stuff! It carves beautifully too!

I just did this last October to use as Halloween props. I used a wire brush for smaller grain and the back end of skinny paint brushes of different sizes for deeper grain texture and make it look a bit more aged. I used a knife to shave off circular pieces to imitate knots in the wood. I then painted it with several shades of brown and used a watered down black paint to fill in the grain and add some depth. I then coated it with matte mod podge to seal it. When it was done I used Velcro strips to stick them up on my windows. I hung a few boards over each window to make make house look like an old abandoned house that was boarded up. We even had a couple over the front door and handed out the candy between the boards. It’s a time consuming project, especially when waiting for each shade of brown to dry when using 5 or 6 colors to really age it. Next year I might get some shades of green and grey and use a sponge to dab it on and give it a mossy effect

I enjoy woodworking so I would never make these. But this video is amazing … and I watched the entire thing.

I was skeptical at the beginning, but these turned out really well. Very nice job and a really innovative approach.

I never would have thought about using foam insulation to make faux beams. That’s an interesting idea.

Came for the artsy yet ludicrous nature of this project, but I am now humbled by your achievement. The tape on the screws was definitely worth the time. I’d suggest that you celebrate the joints on your next beams with a barn or ship style angled joint. We did that many years ago in a condo my uncle bought. He wanted to hide the concrete seams in the dock planking pour of his building with faux beams. We couldn’t get full 14 foot long beams on the elevators. We used old tools to recreate the hand hewn look and cut 27 degree angles into the seven foot sections to accept faux wedges and bolts.

I’m a professional that has made many faux beams and have developed some wild techniques. I rarely comment on videos, but I have to tell you that this is a great idea that you executed well. I wonder about the longevity of the finish… I’m going to try it out. Nice job.

I really enjoyed watching your method. You were also fun to listen to. Of course, people that comment are going to criticize and poke holes into your creativity but who cares -I think they came out fantastic. You are really ambitious. Great results.

I love this. Might do this outside in my covered porch as a faux wall

Very nice job and makes sense for the cost weight and ease of the project. Had no idea the foam could be transformed like that, thanks for sharing!

Well done!

They turned put looking great ngl. Nice job

What a great idea beautifully done

Absolutely brilliant. Well done.

Nothing stops you from adding cheap veneer or wrap to the foam either. Another great idea would be using this for hiding home theater installs and/or LED wiring. Much safer also vs going through walls and risking damage to underlying utilities.

Just bought a house and looked into adding beams. They are very expensive right now, so I’m going to try this method Thank you for this video

Nice. A woodgraining tool takes a long time to learn to use, without developing a repetitive technique, that shows up after you thought you were doing so well!

So freekin' impressed! They're beautiful & so very real looking. You'd never guess they weren't. 👏😄 (My parents installed store-bought foam beams in our dining room, in the 70s. They were a similar yellow foam & colored to look like hand-hewn walnut. Not bad looking, as I remember. The ceiling was very low & the beams added a colonial/English tavern feel to the room. Unfortunately the shag carpeting kinda messed up the ambience, lol :)

EXCELLENT VIDEO... Love this video Thank you so much for sharing

Great video! Thanks for making it.

Awesome job

Thank you, appreciate the quick response. We are actually building some 21 foot beams on a sloped ceiling, angles, UGH!!!

Looks AMAZING… I’m gonna try it!! Thanks for sharing your well executed home improvement!!

Nice! You not only saved money but also weight.

This is an amazing video. Very clever. Great cost saver.

Awesome video , Fun project

Looks great!

Great job

I LOVE THIS VIDEO... Turned out SOOOO BEAUTIFUL

OMG Can You Do The Slat Wood Panels Next?! I’m Inspired This Is Brilliant 🤎

It's not remotely close to be interesting, it's SOOOOOO interesting 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Fantastic job.

These look awesome!

Great work!

Great job mate

Awesome job. Wow. I would have pointed out the wood beams when selling that house. Awesome job

Looks very good.

Wow, that looks amazing I will be trying this for sure. Good Job!

Wow! They came out really good!! 👍🏼

Looks good

Thanks so much for posting this!

Looks great!!!!

This was a fantastic idea!

Really nice work.

I made 4x 30 feet beams for my living room and they look amazing! it worked like a charm! Looks awesome! Like real wood, thanks for the idea! I finally got my beams, on a real low budget!!! I used interior water based paint( light ash color) and a water based dark walnut stain over it. Joint compound to hide the seams where the boards met. Hot glue worked great for me to glue them together, dries quickly! And yes we also made some test board before to exercise making the wood faux wire brush design and also to try the diff. stains.

Excellent!

Love it!

Looks great

Great video Thank you 🙏🏾

This is amazing! I'd been looking for a solution like this.

They look cool. Well done. 👍🏼

Loved your video

I am enthralled!

The beams turned out great! Your texturing looks amazing! I like how it turned out. If I ever try it, hopefully it looks that good!

Great video, I've always wanted to make beams..

DUDE! Great job!

Creative!

Nice work man those look amazing

PRETTY GOOD!

wow.. unreal what an amazing idea, now make a set of foam speakers with sound exciters... same effect

Love it!!

Wow, you did a great job! And you put a really good video together, showing the steps along the way. Well done!

You are a genius !! Thank you !

Very nice, they look great ❤❤❤

Impressive!!

nice job homes

I have a support beam in my condo which is unsightly to say the least. I'm going to use your idea to surround the support beam. Thanks!!!!!

I'm with u dude cheat DIY always comes together GREAT JOJ.

I started to mock out an upper cabinet with foam board bc so cheap vs wood. I kinda thought full mock-up but figured too expensive. But really not as you taught. But mine is a ground cabinet. So close to eye and touch. Still wouldn’t work. But it looks awesome. I may still try it just to play with it a bit now. Awesome job

Amazing! Very crafty. This gave me some halloween ideas! hahah thanks!

Liked and subscribed love this idea!!!

Cut the hole in the wood and then use a heat gun to make melt a little bit making the KNOT in the wood look real. Spray Alcohol ( a little bit) and on the bare foam it will melt the foam a little bit making it look like tiny holes in the wood. Cut long groves in the foam... and "V" groves... and us the heat gun to heat the long groves... making it look real.

Okay, I like it! I like it alot for the innovation too

thank you!!!

As someone that builds wood faux beans, this is next level 😅

Nice!

Awesome!

It is Tuesday, how you know? Lol. Great work.

Very nice

You did great

Man i love this ❤ this is cool dude thanks tot sharing!

Awesome!!!!!! New Subscriber

We are trying it out this weekend:)

Dude you are a genius! I've been wanting to add beams to my great room's cathedral ceiling, but real beams are too heavy, pre-made foam faux beams are too expensive and beams made with 1 X lumber always shows the joints no matter how good your 45's are. I've used the pink foam board insulation for displays before and I'm the king of using the faux wood graining tool with paint, but I never thought of putting the two things together. My only suggestion / improvement will be to alternately splice the pieces to create a beam longer than 8' so I won't have to do any splicing, patching, staining at the ceiling level.