I can’t remember when this happened, but a long time ago, Lloyd, Lauren, Harold, and Beth came to visit me. While they were here, I gave Beth and Lauren some money and told them they could do whatever they wanted to my downstairs bathroom. It was kind of like one of those surprise makeover shows, only with a tiny budget. They did an amazing job. I have loved it. The worst thing about my bathroom was the awful drop ceiling. They very cleverly covered it with matchstick-type blinds. They just clipped them right to the ceiling grid.
The matchstick blinds have started to look a little ragged, so I’ve decided to replace them. As I was researching the possibilities, I discovered that the company that sold me my backsplash also sells tin dropin panels for a drop ceiling. Awesome! I already have the grid. All I have to do is paint it to match, then cut a few tiles along the side and voila! I’ll have a new ceiling!
Yesterday I decided to take out the old panels. It was messy work. One of the previous owners had torn up the original tin ceiling to do some sloppy/lazy plumbing and had covered his transgression with the drop ceiling. The damaged ceiling has been steadily raining plaster fragments. Each ceiling tile was a potential hailstorm of crumbles.
Here’s the before and after. I had to leave the tile the light is hanging in, because it’s jury-rigged somehow and I didn’t have my tall ladder in the room so I couldn’t see what was going on, and I wasn’t in the mood to be electrocuted.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Ha! “Not in the mood to be electrocuted.” – You slay me.
You are so, so brave. I never thought about how ceiling tiles are really there to cover up the ugly behind them. So where are the joists in the floor above? Above the green stuff? I see load-bearing beams, but then it looks like you might be walking on construction paper.
[Yea, well, he could slay him, too, that way…]
Indeed, I have to wonder if this isn’t all that holds up our main ceiling at home. [Sure felt like construction paper that I punctured years ago falling through it from the attic into the hallway. Hitting a main beam with the tail bone was great fun, I must say…]
Look at you go….powering thru all your home projects! And great idea about the tin ceiling. That will look great!
If you ever need a change of scenary, I have projects….I’m just saying…..
PS–I thought Beth & Lauren did the upstairs bathroom. Or did they do both???
I hired some guys to do the walls and floor of the upstairs bathroom (it was before I knew that you could read about how to do such things). After they tiled and drywalled, I painted and installed the toilet and sink and all that stuff.
I think they did the downstairs after I did the upstairs.