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Glulam beams vs Parlam beams

soesoe75
13 years ago

Has anyone ever seen/used exposed glulam or parallam beams on the interior? Our design has exposed veneer wrapped Parallam beams. I'm a bit nervous that wood veneer wrapped beams may look fake and I haven't even found veneer species that I love. My builder has done houses with exposed arcitectural grade fir glulam beams that get sanded and stained and is sujesting we consider this instead of wrapping in a veneer.

My concern is that the fir glulam beams will look too red in color even when stained - I was wanting a softer oak or even greyed out look.

Has anyone see exposed parallam beams that have been sanded and stained?

Does anyone have experience staining fir so it looks less orange/red?

Any good real wood veneers to recommend? Here is the veneer company our architect is recommending

Thanks,

soesoe75

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