Wow. It has been a long time since our last post. Honestly, once we got the spray foam up, we started bookin' it and it seemed like there was no time to keep up with the blog! Tonight, though, we are taking the night off to research and catch up on a few other things, so I'm going to take a little time now to update everyone a little bit on what's new! Every step of this conversion has been more and more exciting, but this is one of the big ones. WE GOT THE CEILING DONE! We knew from the moment that we got the bus, that we wanted a wood ceiling. We did question from time to time if it would be bright enough in the bus with a wood ceiling- we thought for just a moment if we put the white panels back up, it would definitely be nice and bright (and a lot less work), but it didn't take long for us to just say, "Nope, we want the wood ceiling." So we did it and oh my gosh, it is the most beautiful ceiling I've ever seen. It took us some time to decide what type of wood we wanted. We went back and forth between pine and cedar. Absolutely loved the look of a natural cedar but couldn't justify spending the money, so we went with pine. We bought 12 foot long 1" x 4" unfinished pine bead board and sanded and stained each board in black cherry. It took us probably two days to decide what stain color we wanted and it's funny that we ended up choosing the black cherry because it started out as a joke actually. It had a pinkish-purple color to it that looked really weird at first, but there was just something about it that we liked, and it was something different. After carefully sanding the boards, we put a coat of shellac on them to avoid a splotchy stain (apparently this is especially common with pine). Once the shellac was dry, we applied a single coat of the black cherry stain with a rag. Finally, we put two coats of polyurethane to seal it. The whole process, from sanding to sealing took us 4 long nights. We luckily have a friend who was nice enough to let us use his shop and sprayer. Thanks Reed!
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