Established Precision
Faux Wood Beam Systems
Custom EPS Exterior Pediments
Polyurea Protective Coating
Zero Cranes Required
Seamless Monolithic Look
Rapid Lightweight Install
Custom pediments for every architectural vision
Engineered solutions for every architectural vision.
For Architects & DesignersRealize your creative vision without compromise. We fabricate custom solutions to your exact CAD specifications, from replicating historic details to creating bold, modern forms. We provide the technical partnership you need to build what you designed.
For Developers & BuildersAdd powerful curb appeal that accelerates property sales. The rapid, lightweight installation of our door pediments and window pediments means no downtime and faster project completion. It’s the high-end look that closes deals, delivered efficiently.
For Commercial PropertiesMake your entrance an unforgettable brand statement. Ideal for hotels, banks, corporate headquarters, and luxury retail, our pediments project authority and sophistication with zero long-term maintenance.
For Luxury HomeownersCreate the ultimate first impression. Our systems provide the elegance of classic architecture for your front door pediments and windows, building a legacy of timeless style for your custom home.
Product Range
Faux Wood Beam Systems
Decorative Moldings 1
Decorative Moldings 2
Decorative Moldings 3
Decorative Moldings 4
Decorative Moldings 5
Decorative Moldings 6
Decorative Moldings 7
Exterior Wall Niches 1
Exterior Wall Niches 2
Exterior Wall Niches 3
Finishes
Size Guide
| Height (H), in | Depth (D), in | Length (L), in |
|---|---|---|
| 2 ¾ | ¾ | 96 |
| 3 | 1 | |
| 3 ¼ | 1 ¼ | |
| 3 ½ | 1 ½ | |
| 4 | 1 ¾ | |
| 4 ½ | 2 | |
| 5 | 2 ¼ | |
| 5 ½ | 2 ½ | |
| 6 | 2 ¾ | |
| 6 ¾ | 3 ¼ | |
| 7 ½ | 3 ½ | |
| 8 ¼ | 4 |
Finishes
Textures & Colors
We offer 3 finish types and 9 standard colors. For custom color, we have mixes that allow us to make columns in almost any color.
SandblastFine, uniform aggregate. Replicates the clean, etched look of sandblasted masonry. Fully paintable.
FreestyleHand-troweled, organic movement. Perfect for Old World, Mediterranean, or custom rustic facades. Fully paintable.
QuarzputzClassic rilled stucco texture. Engineered to seamlessly match standard EIFS exterior systems. Fully paintable.
SandpebbleMedium-to-heavy aggregate. Delivers a robust, traditional stucco profile that hides surface imperfections. Fully paintable.
Sandpebble fineTight, subtle aggregate. A versatile, low-profile texture that balances masonry realism with a refined finish. Fully paintable.
MojaveDeep, rugged relief. Creates strong shadow lines for a bold, heavy-masonry aesthetic. Fully paintable.
FinesseSophisticated, micro-stipple texture. Provides a premium, understated finish for high-end residential or commercial designs. Fully paintable.
CoralDeep, heavily pitted texture. Recreates the dramatic, organic look of natural volcanic rock or weathered marine coral reefs. Fully paintable.
Coral LightSubtle, moderately pitted texture. Offers a softer, more refined version of the classic coral finish with a balanced, natural depth. Fully paintable.
All textures and colors are fully customizable for each individual project, ensuring complete flexibility in design and appearance.
Each our decorative architectural foam product is unique. We don’t “print” identical beams — we craft them as individual architectural pieces.
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Why choose us
Let’s bring your vision to life
From your sketch to a flawless exterior pediment
Our process is transparent, collaborative, and engineered for precision—from initial concept to job site delivery.
It all begins with a deep dive into your project. We work as your technical partner to transform creative intent into a solid, actionable plan.
- Analyze your inputs: We review your architectural plans, CAD files, sketches, and inspirational images to understand your design from every angle.
- Define the scope: In a collaborative consultation, we discuss the project’s aesthetic goals, site conditions, and technical requirements to ensure a perfect fit.
- Establish a technical blueprint: We finalize all specifications, from dimensions to finish textures, creating a clear roadmap for fabrication that aligns perfectly with your vision.
We bridge the gap between concept and cost, providing you with the clarity and confidence to move forward.
- Receive a detailed 3D visualization: We create and send you a precise 3D model, allowing you to see exactly how your custom architectural elements will look before production begins.
- Get a transparent, itemized proposal: You receive a clear, comprehensive quote with no hidden fees. We believe in total transparency, so you know exactly what you’re investing in.
- Maintain complete control for final approval: We don’t proceed until you are 100% satisfied. You have the final say on the design and budget before we move to the next stage.
This is where your approved design becomes a physical reality, crafted with an obsessive focus on quality in our 45,000 sq. ft. workshop.
- Execute with robotic accuracy: Our state-of-the-art CNC hot-wire machines carve your architectural elements with flawless precision, matching your approved 3D models to the exact specification.
- Armor for a century of performance: Our skilled artisans apply our signature Polyurea hard coat, creating a seamless, impact-resistant, and weatherproof shell designed for decades of durability.
- Verify through rigorous quality control: Every single piece undergoes a multi-point inspection to ensure it meets our exact standards for shape, finish, and structural integrity.
Our commitment extends all the way to your job site, ensuring a smooth and successful installation.
- Protect with secure, custom crating: We build specialized shipping crates for every project, guaranteeing your elements arrive in pristine, ready-to-install condition.
- Streamline your installation: Your pieces are delivered pre-assembled and lightweight, designed to slash on-site labor time and eliminate the need for heavy machinery.
- Support your crew to the finish line: We provide detailed installation guides and offer live Zoom support to answer your team’s questions, guaranteeing a perfect final fit.
It all begins with a deep dive into your project. We work as your technical partner to translate creative intent into a solid, actionable plan.
- Analyze your inputs: We review your architectural plans, CAD files, sketches, and inspirational images to understand your design from every angle.
- Define the scope: In a collaborative consultation, we discuss the project’s aesthetic goals, site conditions, and technical requirements to ensure a perfect fit.
- Establish a technical blueprint: We finalize all specifications, from dimensions to finish textures, creating a clear roadmap for fabrication that aligns perfectly with your vision.
We bridge the gap between concept and cost, providing you with the clarity and confidence to move forward.
- Receive a detailed 3d visualization: We create and send you a precise 3D model, allowing you to see exactly how your custom architectural elements will look before production begins.
- Get a transparent, itemized proposal: You receive a clear, comprehensive quote with no hidden fees. We believe in total transparency, so you know exactly what you’re investing in.
- Maintain complete control for final approval: We don’t proceed until you are 100% satisfied. You have the final say on the design and budget before we move to the next stage.
This is where your approved design becomes a physical reality, crafted with an obsessive focus on quality in our 45,000 sq. ft. workshop.
- Execute with robotic accuracy: Our state-of-the-art CNC hot-wire machines carve your architectural elements with flawless precision, matching your approved 3D models to the exact specification.
- Armor for a century of performance: Our skilled artisans apply our signature Polyurea hard coat, creating a seamless, impact-resistant, and weatherproof shell designed for decades of durability.
- Verify through rigorous quality control: Every single piece undergoes a multi-point inspection to ensure it meets our exact standards for shape, finish, and structural integrity.
Our commitment extends all the way to your job site, ensuring a smooth and successful installation.
- Protect with secure, custom crating: We build custom shipping crates for your elements, ensuring they arrive on-site in perfect, ready-to-install condition.
- Streamline your installation: Your pieces are delivered pre-assembled, designed to slash on-site labor time and eliminate the need for heavy machinery.
- Support your crew to the finish line: We provide detailed installation guides and offer live Zoom support to answer your team’s questions, guaranteeing a perfect final fit.
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From your first idea to the final installation — our process is clear, fast, and designed to make every detail simple.
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FAQ
Can I get pediments in custom sizes or shapes?
Absolutely. Over half of our projects are fully custom. One client in Orlando requested oval window pediments with a limestone finish for a boutique apartment project — they were indistinguishable from carved stone, but a fraction of the weight and cost.
What if a third-party contractor is handling installation?
That’s common. We supply comprehensive drawings, detailed installation guides, and are available for direct consultation with your contractors. For a retail center in Georgia, third-party installers had zero on-site adjustments thanks to our pre-engineered components.
How long does production take?
Most are finished in 2–4 weeks; complex projects may require additional time.
I’m planning a project right on the coast — lots of humidity, salt air, and temperature swings. Will these exterior pediments actually hold up over the years, or will I have to worry about replacing them?
Yes. Our materials are engineered to resist humidity, salt air, and temperature swings. Several door pediments we supplied for Atlantic beachfront properties have been in place for over a decade without visible wear.
Are these suitable for commercial buildings?
Absolutely. Their durability, precision, and fast installation make them ideal for office buildings, retail spaces, and hotels. In one Tampa office project, our window pediments helped the developer finish the façade two weeks ahead of schedule — a savings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
How much maintenance do they need?
Virtually none. A power wash every few years is usually all it takes.
Can I combine pediments with other façade elements?
Yes. Many clients order pediments along with cornices, trim, and panels in a unified design language. This ensures perfect alignment and saves significantly on logistics and installation.
What if I’m not sure about the final design yet?
We can produce a 3D model and a drawing so you can review and visualize the product before committing to a full order.
Do you work with small orders?
We do. Whether you need a handful of interior door pediments or hundreds of façade elements for a large development, we’re equipped to support projects of any size.
We want a wood look without the upkeep.
We can achieve that easily. Slim aluminum fins paired with textured foam surfaces create the warmth and light play of wood without rot, refinishing, or fading. On one residential project, the “wood” still looked fresh three seasons later with nothing more than a garden hose rinse. The result was as visually appealing as natural wood and perfectly matched the desired look of the homeowner.
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Faux Wood Beam Systems
Faux wood beams add structure, warmth, and architectural character without requiring solid timber construction. They can emphasize a ceiling, define a room, frame an opening, or introduce the appearance of reclaimed wood.
Faux Wood Ceiling Beams are especially useful when the design calls for substantial visual volume with a lighter decorative construction. Custom dimensions and profiles also make it easier to coordinate beams with the actual architecture.
Green Wall manufactures custom architectural foam elements through engineering, CNC fabrication, finishing, assembly, and logistics. High-density polyurethane is one of the material paths available for detailed faux wood architectural products.
What Are Faux Wood Beams?
Faux wood beams are decorative architectural elements designed to reproduce the appearance of real timber.
Unlike structural timber, decorative faux beams normally do not carry building loads unless they are specifically engineered for that purpose. They can instead be installed around or below existing structural elements.
This distinction creates several design possibilities.
A beam can conceal a structural condition, establish a visual grid, emphasize a vaulted ceiling, or create a focal point above a kitchen island or dining area.
The beam profile, visible faces, dimensions, texture, color, and installation method all influence the finished appearance.
Why Choose Faux Wood Beams?
Real wood remains an excellent architectural material. However, large timber beams can introduce additional weight, handling demands, dimensional movement, and fabrication limitations.
Faux wood beams offer a different solution.
Barron Designs describes its polyurethane faux wood beams as lightweight decorative products that reproduce real wood textures while simplifying handling and installation. The company also manufactures its faux beams from molds created from actual wood.
For Green Wall, the value of custom fabrication is not simply making a beam look like wood. It is creating the required architectural profile, size, texture, and finish around the project.
The result can preserve the visual character of timber while giving the design team more control over the finished component.
High-Density Polyurethane for Faux Wood Beams
High-density polyurethane foam is widely used for decorative faux wood products because it can be molded or machined into controlled architectural forms.
Current commercial faux-beam manufacturers offer HDU or high-density polyurethane products in multiple profiles, sizes, textures, and lengths. Tilton, for example, lists HDU foam, custom dimensions, two-, three-, and four-sided profiles, and interior or exterior applications for its faux ceiling beams.
Green Wall works with high-pressure polyurethane as a dedicated manufacturing path for rigid, dimensionally precise architectural profiles. Its Capability Deck also lists HDU among the materials available across its manufacturing platform.
That material path is particularly useful when the project needs detailed decorative geometry with controlled dimensions.
Hand-Hewn and Rustic Faux Wood Beams
Hand-hewn beams create an irregular, crafted surface. They work particularly well when the design calls for an older or more traditional character.
A rough-sawn texture emphasizes grain and tool marks. Weathered finishes can suggest reclaimed timber.
Rustic faux wood beams can complement farmhouse, lodge, Mediterranean, transitional, and hospitality interiors.
The texture should be selected together with the beam profile. A highly rustic surface can look inconsistent on an otherwise minimal architectural form.
Wood-look finishes can also be used with a decorative wooden beam profile where genuine timber would add more weight than necessary.
Faux Wood Beams for Vaulted and Cathedral Ceilings
Vaulted ceilings provide one of the strongest applications for decorative beams.
The larger the ceiling volume, the more important beam scale becomes.
Faux wood beams vaulted ceiling designs can use wider profiles and carefully planned spacing to emphasize the slope.
The same principle applies to faux wood beams cathedral ceiling layouts. Beams can follow the roof geometry or create a visual framework across the ceiling.
For a sloped ceiling, each beam must be coordinated with the pitch, termination points, and surrounding trim.
A beam designed for a flat ceiling may need a different section or installation strategy on a vaulted surface.
Kitchen and Living Room Applications
Kitchen faux wood beams can define an island, separate cooking and dining zones, or create a visual center within an open floor plan.
They can coordinate with cabinetry, flooring, wall finishes, and lighting.
In living rooms, beams can frame the seating area or reinforce the proportions of a large ceiling.
Faux wood beams in living room designs work best when their scale follows the room. Too many large beams can make a compact room feel crowded. Sparse beams can disappear in a very large volume.
Faux Wood Beams for Doorways
A beam does not have to remain on the ceiling.
A decorative profile can continue across an opening and connect the ceiling with surrounding architecture.
Faux wood beams doorway applications can frame wide openings, transitions between rooms, or feature entries.
This can create continuity between the ceiling and surrounding architectural elements.
Coordinated Faux Wood Details
Faux wood beams can also pair with wood wall paneling, decorative wood panels for walls, or wood cladding. Matching wood mantel details, rafter tails, and wood brackets can extend the same visual language through an interior.
Projects can also include hand hewn beams, custom ceiling beams, or decorative rafter tails.
How Green Wall Fabricates Faux Wood Beams
The manufacturing process connects the appearance with the required geometry.
- Define the ceiling. Record room dimensions, ceiling height, slope, substrate, and existing architecture.
- Select the beam profile. Choose the visible faces, dimensions, texture, and decorative character.
- Coordinate the layout. Establish spacing, direction, joints, transitions, and fixture locations.
- Develop production drawings. Confirm section sizes, interfaces, and installation details.
- Validate the geometry. Green Wall uses digital toolpath simulation before production.
- Fabricate the components. Green Wall’s robotic CNC platform provides controlled digital shaping for architectural forms.
- Finish the surface. Faux wood, texture coatings, and premium paint systems can create the required appearance.
- Assemble and package. Panel bonding, sectional pre-assembly, mechanical assembly, hardware integration, and packaging are available in-house.
- Deliver to the jobsite. Green Wall supports custom crating, freight coordination, LTL, full truckload, jobsite delivery, and interim storage.
Installing Faux Wood Beams
The installation method depends on the beam profile, ceiling structure, weight, and available attachment points.
Hollow decorative profiles can be installed around blocking or other supporting elements. A differently configured decorative component may require another fastening strategy.
The ceiling structure should be reviewed before installation.
Lighting should also be considered early. Recessed fixtures, pendants, and accent lighting can work with beam layouts, but the electrical plan should be coordinated before fabrication.
This is especially important for faux wood beams on ceiling layouts with multiple intersections.
Large beams may also require sectioning for handling and delivery.
Why Choose Green Wall?
Green Wall combines engineering and fabrication rather than treating the beam as a simple decorative product.
The company’s manufacturing platform includes engineering, robotic CNC, foam fabrication, high-pressure polyurethane molding, protective coatings, finishing, assembly, prototyping, and logistics.
That combination supports custom profiles and coordinated architectural packages.
Matching beams, trusses, brackets, columns, and mantels can use coordinated profiles and finishes.
For larger projects, digital manufacturing supports repeatable production across multiple spaces.
The benefit is control.
Instead of adapting a room to a stock beam, the beam can be developed around the room.
Pros and Cons
Advantages
Lightweight construction: High-density polyurethane decorative beams can reduce mass compared with solid timber.
Custom profiles: Width, height, length, visible faces, and decorative details can be developed around the design.
Realistic textures: Wood-inspired surfaces can reproduce hand-hewn, rough-sawn, weathered, or refined timber character.
Consistent production: Digital fabrication supports repeatable geometry.
Design flexibility: Beams can work with flat, vaulted, cathedral, and feature ceilings.
Coordinated elements: Trusses, rafters, brackets, planks, and mantels can share a visual language.
Integrated manufacturing: Engineering, fabrication, finishing, assembly, and logistics are connected.
Considerations
Decorative by default: Faux wood beams should not be treated as structural members unless specifically engineered.
Installation varies: Ceiling structure and beam profile determine the attachment method.
Exterior use requires specification: UV, moisture, wind, temperature, and coatings matter.
Custom designs need planning: Complex layouts should be coordinated with lighting and building services.
Final weight depends on the assembly: Coatings, hardware, sectioning, and related components contribute to total weight.
A Practical Specification Process
- Define the ceiling. Record dimensions, elevation, pitch, substrate, and existing conditions.
- Choose the visual style. Select grain character, texture, color, and finish.
- Select the profile. Establish width, height, length, visible faces, and edges.
- Plan the layout. Set spacing, intersections, joints, and transitions.
- Coordinate services. Resolve lighting, HVAC, sprinklers, speakers, and access.
- Review the structure. Confirm attachment points and any required independent support.
- Develop production drawings. Finalize geometry and installation details.
- Approve the finish. Confirm texture, color, coatings, and any matching requirements.
- Review environmental conditions. Check interior or exterior exposure and project requirements.
- Release fabrication. Approve the final production package before manufacturing.
Design a Faux Wood Ceiling Around the Architecture
The best faux wood ceiling does not begin with a standard beam.
It begins with the room.
Beam dimensions, profile, texture, color, spacing, lighting, and installation all affect the finished result. Custom fabrication gives the design team greater control over those details.
Green Wall combines custom architectural foam, high-pressure polyurethane capabilities, engineering, CNC manufacturing, finishing, assembly, prototyping, and logistics within one manufacturing platform.
That approach makes it possible to develop Faux Wood Ceiling Beams around the actual architectural requirements rather than forcing the design into a standard product.
Request a Free Quote to discuss your Faux Wood Ceiling Beams, custom profiles, dimensions, textures, finishes, vaulted-ceiling layout, and installation requirements with Green Wall.
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