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Basement ceilings (Polystyrene tiles – cheap and dirty)

by on Jun 4, 2008

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 since my ceilings aren’t too high I didn’t want to lose a couple of inches of my space. The other option was to drywall it – didn’t want to spend my time on sanding the joints and killing myself trying to make it straight. So here is what I did :

Thin plywood sheets (about $5 a piece ad I used 5 of those) – just screwed them up.

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Snapped a chalk line through the main focal point in this room – the light fixture. created on: 06/04/08

Using only those tools (Ceramic Wall tile adhesive, utility knife and putty knife) installed Polystyrene ceiling tiles

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All the tiles were installed within 3 1/2 hours by myself (and it took some time later to silicone the joints to make them look nicer).

Here is what I got at the end : created on: 06/04/08

The part two of my job will be to install the nice crown moldings (the pictures will follow).

Thank you for your time.

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