When we were wrapping up the master I knew I wanted to put something above the bed since we didn’t have a headboard and I decided on wall tins. There’s a place in the city that has then and I always love them except I wasn’t down for paying $80 a piece so I went to a favorite salvage store of mine and located some old ceiling tins to make my own. I meant to only get 2 tins but then found 4 that I liked and since they were so cheap I decided to go for it (this whole project cost me $85). But that also meant I had to find a spot for them besides the bedroom because they wouldn’t all fit above the bed so they ended up in the living room which I think is the perfect spot for them. This was one of the projects I was hoping to complete at the same time as the huge slider but instead it took me 3 weeks to complete working on it off and on. While the slider finishing details were being worked on Mace also took the time to help me make the frames for the tins.
After all the pieces were cut it was time to glue each of the corners and then secure them with the nail gun, which I’m proud to say I did after Mace’s tutorial!
I was able to get them all done in one night and here they are! This was definitely the fastest part of the project.
Next I cleaned off the ceiling tins and then did a spray coat of poly to give them a little shine and secure any loose pieces of paint.
Then I had to start bending the edges of the tins so they would wrap around the wood frame. Mace already had the metal hand break and metal snips which is what I used to bend the metal.
And the first frame fit like a glove!
But alas they were not all so easy. They were all a little different and had various constraints to work with. One required me to trim out a section of the frame so it would lay flat and others didn’t have much edging to wrap around the frame so each one had to be approached differently.
Eventually I conquered them all and drilled through the metal to make nailing into the frame much easier.
The finishing touch was to paint any exposed wood a darker color so it didn’t stand out from the side. And to add the picture hanging hardware.
Then it was time to break out the trusty level and lay out the design. Making the templates and using the level was a HUGE help visually to execute this on my own, no help from Mace! I was able to make slight adjustments without putting a bunch of holes in the wall.
And then install was as easy as 1-2-3…4! The size of the ceiling tins fit really nicely in the stair well but now what to do about the empty space above the bed…
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