Phew!
I mean there is a little cleanup left but all of the heavy work is done and the tools are put away. 🙂
It was actually mostly done Saturday but I just put the tools and excess tiles away today.
Now to work on some patch work and some paint and wallpapering parts of the kitchen ceiling. Yes I said wallpapering parts of the kitchen ceiling. It looks very cool when done well. I did it in the living room with some crown moldings and it looks like a million bucks. Took a plain jane square drywalled room into something much more fancy.
I’ve never heard of wallpapering parts of the kitchen ceiling! If you’re cooking (chinese, indian etc), the heat and steam off the pan will eventually rise to the ceiling…..how do you expect the wallpaper to handle grease and grime if you’re cooking?
I’m not doubting your idea in any way, in fact I think it’s quite interesting and I haven’t seen anything like it, maybe it’s an american thing, I’m from a little island across the water, maybe you know it, it’s called England 😉
Ah great point. Two things help with this.
First, you don’t put it over the actual cooking area.
Second, you paint over the wallpaper.
The wallpaper itself is a special paintable vinyl wall paper with a raised pattern surface. You use a high gloss paint which seals it and makes it extremely reflective. Depending on the color of paint you use, you can make it look like a tin or copper pan ceiling. Personally, I am a not into the darker colors for ceilings so I paint it with a high gloss white so you just have a patterned ceiling.
It’s all very interesting, though it’s backed up with your picture which looks superb.
I think the initial thought for me was ‘hmmm’…but in actually fact, it was actually an ‘ahhh’ at the end.
Good work, ever thought about changing careers, looks a like a professional has done it. Some pics of your tiling would be cool….
Thanks for the compliment.
I don’t see myself doing that for a career but who knows. It is a good way to relax. Doing the livingroom was actually pretty difficult. The secret that I found was to chop the wallpaper up into strips of no more than 4 feet in length. Anything above that was very difficult to work with myself. I cut on “natural” seam points so when the next sheet was put up it “merged” together very well.
I will have to pull out some shots of the tile and post them.