Tuscany home ceiling design is variously composed

	Manmade masonry plaster, tile, and brick Alone or In combination with (apparent) wood structure
	Wood alone Wood (it is nigh unto impossible to Tuscany-Style ceilings without timbers or some sort in some pattern or other) Preferably hewn look, rough-sawed ok, not smooth, full-measure and not planed or ripped to less than bulky-looking integerlike values as were old, true 2x4s, etc.
	Ceiling beams – raw from the forest in the most elemental of structures – predominate in oak, elm, chestnut, and poplar

L1 floors, mostly masonry; L2 floors, mostly wood

Planks above minor, crossing beams above major crossing beams, posted or no between beam layers

May be white- or other color-washed (can look and maybe is pickled in appearance) or painted overall in a color

Several notes are in order before proceeding with Tuscany home ceiling design hereafter in application –

	Wood beams, notably the larger beams, shall run into walls, utterly unlike Traditional design and construction, i.e., with no visible, or revealed, means or other indication of support at their extents
	Emphatically, wood ceilings may be variously coated overall in a color per space
	Rusticity varies directly with the inclusion and expanse of exposed wood in ceilings

Structure with wood ceiling, or the appearance of structure, should be respected in a couple of ways –

	There are several first-class faux representations of wood beams – rough, hacked and adzed, intermittently deep-split, for example among others, http://www.aicmillworks.com/ceiling-beams/1/Rustic/material/faux-beam/length/width/height/ship/sides/closed/
	Spacing and sizing from a maximum 12LI on a side or thereabouts should be mimicked as closely as possible to the physically practical in real terms . . . any wood ceiling building going to 12LI on-center spacing on rafterlike beams is serious, reflective, responsible building and AG’s seen several Tuscany examples in print
	Directional, or compass rose, layout of planks (and, therefrom, the subordinate beam structures or apparent structures) should bear a realistic lay of roof or other space above, i.e., generally, counteraxially at right angles
	In some spaces, designers note that some but not all of the then-conventional plank-and-beams structure is not evident, and, in its lieu smaller, even rugged-looking branchlike wood lengths from wall to wall revealed in plaster ground covering most of the engaged ceiling . . . eerily similar to early Southwestern adobe ceiling structures . . . seemingly quite primitive but stylistically viable
	Eschew the temptation to copy or closely follow some of the pictured layouts of ‘rehabbed’ Tuscany ceilings of wood construct that are obviously phony-baloney ‘see me Mommy’s’ bereft of but shreds of physical reality to ‘em – please lay ‘em out with the help of folks who can build ‘em for real if asked
	Masonry ceilings may be formed up finished a little messy and irregular in appearance, faux or no
	Grout lines should be as thin as possible

In Tuscany home ceiling design, each and every luminaire or fan suspended from ceiling may be trimmed with a medallion in-style . . . needn’t be, but may be

Tuscany home ceiling design not finished in wood

	Shall preferably be finished flat
	Shall secondarily be finished as are abutting walls
	Shall be finished smooth-to-low profile as in sand, preferably light sand and similar (see http://www.debwalton.net/cs/stucco/finishstyles.htm )

Of all the references these designers have laid eyes, two are, in their opinion, better than the rest