I’m ready to finish my tack room but am not sure how to do the ceiling 
Tack room is currently a “bay” with 9’ T&G walls on 3 sides. I’m planning on enclosing the front and adding a sliding barn door, and want to add a ceiling (other than the barn roof) so I can put in a window unit. I want the ceiling to also be T&G wood. I’ll need to be able to put in a new light, since the current light is over both the wash stall and tack room. Does anyone have pictures of their tack room ceiling? How did you do it?
We did tongue and groove pine boards, because we were already experienced with putting this in. It was easy, and cheap.
We have tongue and groove walls and drywalled the ceiling. We were then able to add florescent lights and it has worked out really well for us!
We did dry wall ceiling. Two teenage girls and mom with no experience. It is still up after 25 years --but it has a bit of a wave to it --we didn’t know that there was specific dry wall for ceilings . . .
Not T&G but wood panels…
@NancyM Thank you! Am I correct in assuming I don’t necessarily need to use the 2" T&G that I used on the stalls and can probably use 1" since it’s not load bearing?! Do you remember what size you used?
@Foxglove Aww I love that!! My mom and I also put in our stall kits and turned a garage/workshop into my barn 
@Lucassb Love your light! I totally forgot I had hung a chandelier in my old tack room and it was such a nice touch. I’ll have to do that again!
The entire barn is T&G so I’d really like to stick with that for the ceiling, although drywall looks very nice too! So, do you just make a frame on top of the walls and attach to that? The barn trusses are 12’ and I feel like it would look really weird to have to make the wash stall/tack room shared wall taller in order for the ceiling to meet the trusses? I think that’s the biggest mental block I’m having - how do you attach it?!
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@NancyM Thank you! Am I correct in assuming I don’t necessarily need to use the 2" T&G that I used on the stalls and can probably use 1" since it’s not load bearing?! Do you remember what size you used?
Just the regular pine that you use in ceilings in houses… about 1/2 inch thick. It comes in various “grades”, “cabin grade” is the cheapest stuff, and is fine or excellent for a tackroom (but probably not what you would choose for the ceiling in your fancy log house mansion). You just start at one edge, and do rows, they fit into each other, you tap them into place, and nail with an airgun (you can probably rent one of those, and an air compressor if you don’t have one of those). Stagger the joints to make it look nice. Nail to what you have made the roof out of, above the ceiling. Nail inside the groove of the board you are installing. Home Hardware (or your local home construction store) can sell you this stuff, and supply what you need (including instructions) to install it.
Since we had already done our house, we had a system already in place, I do the cutting, pass him the board of the correct length, he does the nailing. It would have been better to have learned and got experienced on the tack room ceiling before doing the house, but it didn’t work out that way LOL.
