Johnson Paperhanging LLC

McFadden-Ward House Museum

Beaumont, TX, completed August 2025

Bradbury & Bradbury on the third-floor ceiling of a historic house museum, installed over stretched canvas the way it would have been in the 1880s.

Installation of Bradbury & Bradbury wallcoverings on the ceiling of the third floor of the museum. The old material had to be stripped, shiplap surfaces repaired, and the new material installed over stretched canvas, in a similar fashion to how it would've been installed in the 1880s. Some of the fabric on the sidewalls was repaired after years of temperature and humidity variations caused the canvas, liner, backing, and fabric to contort.

Installation done with Jeff Ragland and Brian Atchley! It was the first truly historic project I’d been invited to hang on!

Front of the McFadden-Ward House
The installers with canvas laid out on the third floor
Stripping the old ceiling down to the shiplap
Hanging the new ceiling material overhead
Red sidewall fabric around a dormer window
Installing the ceiling over stretched canvas from scaffolding
The third-floor room with the new ceiling in place
Red fabric sidewalls and dormers under the new ceiling
Finished ceiling meeting the red sidewalls at a dormer
Skylight framed by the finished ceiling
Craftsman
Brian AtchleyJeff Ragland
Material
FabricPaper › Hand-printed
Space
Ceiling
Free-form
Bradbury & BradburyHistoric

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