![]() ![]() I have removed Popcorn CELINGS in THE PAST,A tedious job,& dirty ! Being I have a household of popcorn & don’t belive I am at the age or physically capable of DOING BOTH & EXTREAMLY LIMTED INCOME. I Have Ugly Popcorn Ceiling.And have tons of Laminate Flooring Many different Brands & Colors. And overall (without the awful staining/drybrushing/whitewashing/painting the cracks black detour), the process is fairly quick and simple. ![]() So at about $20 each, the whole ceiling came to somewhere around $100. I think I ended up using about 4.5 sheets of plywood for the ceiling in my kitchen and dining area. It didn’t completely disguise the fact that my ceiling was uneven, but it definitely looks better than the drywall….and a thousand times better than the original popcorn ceiling that was in the whole condo when we bought it. So in the end, I just painted the entire thing white…cracks and all. It just ended up looking really harsh and overpowering. I finally decided to paint the ceiling, but since I had gone to all of the trouble painting the cracks black, I tried to keep those black. So then I tried varying degrees of drybrushing and whitewashing. Not only did it waste tons of time, but my kitchen looked like a cave. I used a scrap piece of plywood as a spacer so that all of the pieces were evenly spaced.Īnd yes, as you can see from the picture above, I originally had the idea of staining the boards before installing them. Then, because I was doing this ceiling by myself, I used construction adhesive on each strip, and then nailed it to the ceiling with my nail gun. Then I cut those strips into 4-foot sections with my miter saw. I purchased four sheets of 1/4″ plywood at Home Depot, and because I don’t own a table saw, I had them cut the plywood into 4″ strips for me. So I decided that a wood slat ceiling was the answer. I’m sure that someone a lot more skilled at taping and floating could have hidden those ridge much better than I did. So I was left with awful ridges in my ceiling. So when we replaced the drywall that had been removed, the new drywall was slightly thinner than the old stuff. We didn’t remove all of the drywall because…well…something to do with the way that the ceiling joists lined up. It all started when we added the recessed lighting. Many of you noticed that it was different than in the original kitchen, and wanted to know more, so today I’m spillin’ the details.īefore I added the wood slat ceiling, my ceiling was really in sad shape. On Monday when I posted the before and after of my kitchen, I left out the info about my DIY wood slat ceiling. ![]()
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