Sanding and oiling the beams

The beams came from an old Seattle warehouse. The warehouse was about a 100 years old, the vertical grain fir is likely 400-500 years old. It is beautiful wood and I like how you can see a few hole from the bolts which suspended it in its original location. The original beams were enormous. We had four 6"x 10" beams milled from half of one original beam!

My mom sanding the beams

My Dad routing the edge of the beams

After the beams were installed!

Goodbye ladders!