We finished the ceiling trim in the mudroom and that is when we had the bright idea to use the 3/4 in square piece that we cut off half of the 1X4 boards. No waste at Gear Acres.
Can you see the small square trim?
Maybe a closer view. Can you see it now?
It is very difficult to photograph a ceiling in a small room. Of course there are a bazillion nail holes to fill and sand but that will happen when we prep for priming and paint.
Today we started the ceiling trim on the large part of the kitchen. Before we nailed the bead board plywood to the ceiling we spent quite a lot of time trying to level out the ceiling by adding furring strips to the ceiling joists. Originally the ceiling was plaster on wire mesh so it wasn't necessary to have it perfectly level because the finish plaster would take care of any high and low spots. The reason we removed the kitchen ceiling is because they (previous owners) at some point glued drywall on to the ceiling. Yup, it looked as bad as it sounds.
Oh boy.....angle cuts....and.....every.......single.........one is a different. That's where we called it quits. All this looking up has given both of us a pain in our necks or PION for those of you who like acronyms.
In our little house (that we rent out), the kitchen ceiling is the same as your old one. They (some previous owner) glued/nailed drywall to the old ceiling...we have redone the kitchen but did not fix the ceiling. I would have liked to totally get rid of the ceiling all the way to the roof and install sky lights. It wasn't in the cards for us and we won't tackle the ceiling unless something horrific happens.
ReplyDeleteWorking on a ceiling is the worse for me. I actually get headaches from tilting my head back to look up.
ReplyDeleteI will be very happy when this ceiling is finished.
I wish we could have gutted the kitchen but we had bigger fish to fry. I can't imagine the can of worms that would open. Tongue and groove on top of old plaster walls. The horror!!!!