North Vancouver · August 2026

Craftsman home, clear cedar porch ceilings

A craftsman home whose porches are the point: clear cedar tongue-and-groove across every porch ceiling and along the soffits, carried on tapered white wrapped columns, with black-framed windows set into tan lap siding. It is the Moonrise signature detail at full scale — the cedar overhead, vented, mitred at the corners, and lit with recessed fixtures. Photographed complete in August.

Location: North Vancouver, BC
Building: Custom home · craftsman with clear cedar tongue-and-groove porch ceilings and soffits, wrapped columns, lap siding
Status: Complete
Photographed: August 2026

Tapered white craftsman columns under a clear cedar tongue-and-groove porch ceiling, North Vancouver BC — cedar woodwork by Moonrise Construction

Our scope

What we did here

Clear cedar tongue-and-groove porch ceilings with recessed lighting
Cedar soffits along the eaves and at the roofline returns
Tapered wrapped columns and beams at the porches
Lap siding and trim around the black-framed windows

On site

The work, up close.

Clear cedar porch ceiling with recessed lights and wrapped beam, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Clear cedar porch ceiling, white fascia and wrapped beam at the porch edge, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Clear cedar tongue-and-groove ceiling with recessed lights, detail, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Cedar soffit and fascia over a black-framed window in tan lap siding, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Cedar soffit turning the corner of a porch roof, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Wrapped column meeting the cedar porch ceiling, detail, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Cedar soffit along the roofline with the sky behind, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Underside of a cedar porch ceiling and columns, North Vancouver BC — North Vancouver · clear cedar porch ceilings

Worth knowing

What makes a porch ceiling read as custom?

The run of the boards and the corners. Tongue-and-groove laid true, with the joints landing where they should and the mitres tight where the ceiling turns the corner of the porch. Add recessed lighting set into the cedar rather than surface-mounted, and the porch becomes a room.

How does the column meet the ceiling?

That junction is the detail most people never notice and every carpenter does. The wrapped column has to finish square under the beam, the beam wrap has to align with the cedar above it, and the whole thing has to shed water outward. Look at the column-detail frame: no gap, no filler.

Materials

What it’s made of.

Clear cedar tongue-and-groove

Porch ceilings and soffits — clear grade for an even, knot-free run, with the vent detailing built in.

Wrapped columns, white

Tapered craftsman columns wrapping the structure, meeting the cedar with a clean top detail.

Lap siding, tan

The field walls, with trim around each window and at every material change.

This project shows

Soffits & Cedar Woodwork Hardie & Fiber-Cement Siding

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