In the bedroom of at least one country house, a mushroom the size of a child's head sprouted from an interior beam.

The mill, built in 1840 for grinding rose petals into an ingredient for snuff, is a designated historic landmark with stone walls, brick trim and exposed interior beams.

The logs were brought from the center of Finland and the interior beams left exposed; the walls, floors and ceiling of the central rooms are fitted entirely in red pine.

The house has interior beams 24 feet long, each weighing about 800 pounds.

The positions of interior beams were largely determined by available openings in the wooden headframes being built around.

Only a spinning, irregular curve of dark metal, with an occasional highlight gleaming, here and there a projection--derricks, turrets, landing ports, sensors--and interior beams?

Mrs. Jessen added that the interior wooden beams were the perfect place to display their collection of duck decoys, wooden cats, wreaths, plates and old ice skates.

The interior beams came from hemlock trees growing on the site.

Montague loved the old building with its Spanish chestnut roof and huge, sturdy interior beams.

Its exterior walls are sky blue and its interior beams are painted to resemble trees.