The kitchen ceiling board also finishes the front bay window, but it has a lot of imperfections.  First, I had left the original stairs components intact to keep the board whole.  I had replaced these stairs with Houseworks narrow stairs in the middle of the house instead of the kitchen where they would have taken up all of the available space.

Second, the board is made from two separate pieces, joined together with wood glue.  The original plan called for splices or pieces of wood to be glued over these joins.  It seemed ugly to me to have these odd pieces of wood glued to the ceiling, so I omitted them altogether.  With the flooring added on the second floor and some ceiling paper on the first floor, I figured the wood glue would be enough to hold it together.

In addition to these issues, the board itself was too short front to back.  I added a piece of strip wood to the back end to make up the difference.  Once the ceiling board is finished, you won't even know it's there.

I started the finishing process by priming the ceiling with white paint.  To make sure I wouldn't mess up the interior finishes once they were in place, I next worked on the bay window roof.  I marked around the existing trims and cut the excess from the ceiling board, leaving a little overhang for finishing.

I painted the edges and top black.  I will finish the rest of the bay window roof when I install the swinging window on the second floor.

To finish the kitchen portion of the ceiling, I used a piece of textured scrapbook paper called Pressed Tiles - Brown, by The Paper Studio.  Love this paper!

I cut a piece to cover the ceiling from the open back to just past the join.  I glued it to the ceiling board and once dry, painted it with a few coats of white acrylic.  The paper buckled in a few places, but I like that imperfect look to it, as though some of the tiles have popped out of place over the long years.  :D

I left the original wood for the remaining kitchen and the bay window ceiling but painted it with a few coats of white acrylic to even out the tone.  The wood is in good shape and the minor imperfections it does have only add to the realistic age of the house.

The ceiling board is cut in such a way to allow for its installation around the front sided walls.  This leaves two obvious gaps on either side of the bay window.

Since I find it easier to finish a ceiling board before it is in place and this issue needs to be addressed after the ceiling board is in place, I decided to cut a piece of strip wood to bridge the gap of the bay window to add after installation.  I painted it white to match the ceiling so it will look like a structural element while covering these gaps.  It's just taped in place right now, so you can still see light coming through.

Even with pressing, the ceiling board had a rather obvious warp making the center of the ceiling dip in the middle.  To fix this problem, I added a solid wood beam across the width of the kitchen just beyond the ceiling tile paper.  I used tacky glue, super glue and some nails hammered in from above.  It should hold.  :D  I then painted it white to match.

I have a few more things to work on in the kitchen before I can install the ceiling board permanently, but it is starting to take shape!  There are gaps that will need to be addressed, but trim can cover these remaining problems.

With the furnishings in place, the textured ceiling really adds that vintage feel.