I tried to smooth the computer room ceiling yesterday, but it didn’t start out very well, so I decided to go shopping instead. I thought maybe I could find some tools that would work better than the stuff I first tried.
While I was out, I also decided to get a replacement for my bathroom window curtain. The old curtain was actually an IKEA shower curtain. It was a rubbery material, so I had just cut it down to size. Over the years, the sun degraded it a little, and it was splitting in several places.
Looking around in IKEA, I decided to get another shower curtain. This one is polyester. I never open the bathroom curtain or move it at all, so I decided to just cut it to length. It’s raggedy at the bottom, but you’d never know it.
I never got back to the ceiling. Will I ever figure out how to smooth the bumps? Ugh!
*sigh* There are so many things in this that make me jealous. Tired of working? Go shopping! Where should I go? IKEA! What will I do there? Buy something I need for a cool project!
The curtain looks great – very clever. I’m no help with the bumps.
I’m telling ya’ – stucco or some sort of surfacing should be as easy as it gets and make for an interesting focal point for that room, sir. (As focal as a ceiling can be unless you’re a fly and walk on one…) No “smoothing” needed then. Just my two cents.
Who says shower curtains are just for showers anyway?! Lovely adaptation…or Brad-aptation, as it were… I always have to cut mine in half lengthwise and then use the top of the other half for the window – saves on buying a window curtain in that teensy bathroom and makes a great “set” at the same time. But it’s still used in a bathroom. Not nearly so creative as you. So, I hear you’re teaching home ec/interior deisgn in the fall? (Don’t laugh…you know anything is possible at this time of year…)
I’m trying to avoid texture on the ceiling. I did that in my bedroom and now I don’t like it. 🙁 How do you remove hundreds of thousands of crumbly specks from the ceiling? So because of its permanence, I want to stay away from the crumblies. I’m really counting on the “old house has bumpy walls and ceilings” idea. It’s just an “authentic Edwardian finish”, right?
Actually more of a period Jacobian finish (or is that Jacobite?). Go Team Jacob!
Hehe…. but No way! Definitely Team Edward!
1. Have you really been in your house for 10 years? 10?
2. I have complete faith that you can smooth that ceiling out…but if you don’t
feel like it, do they sell some inexpensive tiles that you could easily glue up there?
3. Very resourceful with the curtain! I can’t seem to find any new living curtains I
like…do you think this could be a solution for me?
4. Oops…I don’t have a 4
1. I moved in late winter 2001, so I guess it’s only 9 years. Oops.
2. See my response to Carol. My standard response will be “It’s an authentic Edwardian finish”.
3. I see lots of shower curtains that I like. Some of them are very fancy. Could they possibly be cheaper than regular drapes? Maybe we’ve stumbled on a money saving decorating idea. Quick! Call HGTV!
4. I like turtles!
Well Sire…than we best be referring to your house as a manor from now on & by jove you need to get yourself a monocle.
I like frogs.