Installing a Tin Wainscoting Step By Step - Step 3: Cutting

Cutting tin for Wainscoting is rather straight forward. The panels are cut exactly in half. This one half 12" panel is installed with one full 24" panel to cover the total 36" height. A tin snips is the most common cutting tool, with an average retail cost of $10. A guillotine paper cutter is very efficient and allows for a near "factory edge" cut, but it is much more expensive, averaging $150 for a model of sufficient quality.

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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.