I think I had the ceiling and molding up in a Saturday. I am looking forward to using snap lock again in the living room this summer. You folks rock, and I have managed to make a number of very jealous friends thanks to the ceiling!

Ivan Roseland - Milwaukee, WI

#5 Antique Copper Vein

I really wish I knew where the film was for the before pics of the room and ceiling. Needless to say the room was bad news. What was lest of the original plaster was falling off. The previous owner had drywalled a few places and it was painfully obvious he knew nothing about tapping or plaster. The ceiling had holes in it from where the upstairs bathroom toilet with no wax ring had been dripping through. The woodwork had probably started getting abused by paint in the 1930's. But, New walls, new fixtures, paint stripper, and a new ceiling have made a world of difference making it into a room I am willing to call the study.

The room is not overly big, about 8x15. I have also gone pretty dark, with the colors to sort of match the original colors we found while removing what was the original plaster. I personally think the room looks great, and fits with the rest of the house. The house was built in 1900 in what was a reasonably well off neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wi. All of the original hardware is still intact, with 90% of the original woodwork. I went with the Antique copper vein because the houses original hardware is all copper, I was also intending the study to be a dark room. The ceiling went up a lot faster than the Faux Finish paint job.
 
 
 

 

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Why are Tin Ceilings so popular today?

Tin Ceilings remind us of a different time in our country's history. Tin Ceilings stir memories of gentler days when elegance and beauty reigned. A slower paced era where style and grace were the watchwords in home decor. Old time victorian homes, formal parlors, farmhouses with wood burning stoves and other historic architecture we've seen in literature and film or remember from our childhood.

It is said that "Everything Old Becomes New Again". It reinvents itself and becomes fashionable again, perhaps because it was so fashionable in the first place. Fashion goes in and out of style as modern ideas are introduced to the market. But the popular styling's of the past always cycle back into modern contemporary culture. The Tin Ceiling exemplifies this concept.