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Basement ceilings (Polystyrene tiles - cheap and dirty)

By faust

Hey everyone,

Recently we moved into new house . And I decided to build a new office for myself in the basement (working from home - dreams come true :-)

It will take a while before we'll finish the whole basement , but for now I just found a nice corner to start from. The walls, floors - everything was done traditional way . The last thing was to decide what to do with the ceilings. One option was to install the drop tiles, but » READ MORE

June 04, 2008

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Giving your kitchen cozier look (with Antique Copper Tin look ceiling tiles)

By faust

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to share with you the details of one of our latest projects. We installed PVC glue on ceiling tile in the kitchen ceilings.

First - we snapped a chalk line through the main focal point in that room - light fixture.

At the beginning

Then we applied a glue (Contact Cement) to the ceilings along this line with a foam roller

Glue was applied to the back of the tile (it is a good idea to apply glue to » READ MORE

November 13, 2007

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Ugly bar stand? Cover it with Antique Copper tin look backsplash roll !

By faust

After finishing the ceilings for the restaurant (http://www.curbly.com/faust/posts/1712-New-day-new-look-) the owner asked us to do something with his ugly bar stand

Here is what we did for him (two and a half hours of work):

Here is how we did it :

We took one roll of PVC tin look backsplash (come as a roll - could be found here http://www.talissadecor.com/?p=catalog&m=24)

One can of contact cement from Home Depot and foam roller to s » READ MORE

July 25, 2007

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Bad looking, old drop ceilings? PVC Tin look ceiling tiles (Faux tin) are the answer

By faust

Hello everyone!

On the pictures below you can see the interior of "Pan" restaurant in the heart of Greek-town in Toronto. First picture was made on Wednesday (two days ago), the second on Thursday (yesterday).

Before (Wednesday, May 30,2007)

After(Thursday,May 31,2007)

Quite a difference, right? Here how it was done :

We just bought new ceiling » READ MORE

June 01, 2007

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How to cover those stained drop tiles once and for all

By faust

Hey everyone. Here I'd like to show you how did we covered old ugly drop tiles my friend had in his office with a new ugly ones (at least the new ones weren't stained :)

This was my friend's office before I convinced him to try to cover the stains.

This is how this office's ceiling looked like before we started.

...about half an hour later.

We just attached PVC glue on ceiling tiles to the old drop tiles one by one (used them as a support)

For that purpose we used PL construction adhesive

Hour and a half later » READ MORE

April 25, 2007

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How to transform ugly popcorn (stucco) ceilings into something worth looking at within just couple of hours .

By faust

Hi everyone,

Here I just wanted to show how you can transform ugly popcorn (stucco)ceilings without tearing it off - fast, clean and easy.

On the pictures below you may see all stages of "covering" the existing popcorn ceilings with Polystyrene ceiling tiles (this specific model called R-16)