The beams resolved into facets like a jewel carved out of energy.

The table was made of a massive slab of mirror-like wood, red as wine, and the legs were great beams of the same wood intricately carved and polished.

It started out as a beam carved along the entire length of a log, three hundred years ago.

It looked like a mass of heavily tiled overhanging roofs, heavy beams carved in elaborate floral designs, gilded dragons' heads, and small windows with even more elaborately carved shutters.

From above, the beam of a flashlight carved down into the opened pit.

Across the ceiling were heavy beams carved with vines and delicate, slim leaves.

These beams, and the dougong members, are usually visible, and richly carved and often painted with deities.

But the ceiling looked strange; it was flat, and it had dark beams richly carved.