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1. Find the center of your plywood. Use this as your starting point.
2. Panels overlap on the quarter inch nail rail and are attached with nails.
3. We used brad nails and painted to match the finish.
4. The edges of the outside columns had to be trimmed with tin snips to accommodate the dimensions of the board.
5. Wood molding was brad nailed up around the panels to finish the edge.
6. Wood molding was brad nailed up around the panels to finish the edge.
7. After half an hour, a beautiful head board is finished.
Pattern #19 Nailups in Antique Rustic Copper
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.
