| We have had some wonderfully
warm and sunny days and too many cloudy and chilly days. Everyone is
ready for spring. It is Mardi Gras time here but we are way too busy to
get involved with the frivolities.
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Our living room/ kitchen Evoba Paneled
ceiling (read more about it & see wood choices here) is looking fabulous. Since I thought that the natural maple was
a bit too conference room looking, I wanted it all whitewashed. Big job
!! But worth it I think.
This photo makes it look lighter than it
actually is since I took it at night and used a flash. I'll get some
good daylight photos soon. You can see in this photo where some of the
frame-work is open and no panels are inserted yet. |
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Originally our ceiling in this room was chamfered
on the sides and it was a few inches higher. I said then that I wanted
max height and to arrange the Evoba ceiling so that it was as high as
possible and to cut smaller mini-panels to fill the sloped area on east
and west length of the room. Well, we had a problem due to the area
where the DAC-ART blocks met the wood bands that were part of the
roofing system. We just couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted with
out great expense. It would only have added about 6 inches to the
ceiling height and I told Dan to just forget it and make the ceiling
straight across and it would be a zillion times easier. Do I wish the
ceiling were higher, sure, I love 24 foot ceilings. But since cost is a
big factor, I am dad-gum happy to have these ceilings as they are !
 Rather
than use the ACP Evoba Maple Coffered Ceiling furnished clips to mount the maple panels directly to the
magnesium oxide ceiling above, Dan and Aaron used a drop ceiling
technique to hang the cross members of the ceiling using wires and
turnbuckles.
They did most of this while I was in Memphis visiting my
Momma. Dan says he has some useful tips and info that might benefit
others when hanging an Evoba coffered wood ceiling and I hope to add
them here.
The 2 ft x 2 ft panels come already made up and ready to drop
into the grid framework. Where we needed a custom size along the wall
edges, Aaron tried breaking apart an already assembled panel to cut it
to size and re-assemble but he found that very difficult since the
panels mitered frame edges had been glued as well as stapled. We emailed
our contact at Acoustical Ceiling Products and our needed un-assembled
panel kits were sent asap. These guys are great.
Look at this huge tower of boxes of Evoba
maple ceiling panels we have whitewashed. They are stacked up in the
guesthouse on the kitchen counters. The maple panels were so
beautifully packed and I have saved every single sheet of the great foam
that protected each layer of the wood parts to use for shipping my tile samples. I am a recycle
nut when it comes to building materials and packing materials. Plus it
was nicer foam than I could afford to buy right now so I am very glad to
have it.
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| Here is a good day time photo of the maple
ceiling. On the righthand side you can see some of the openings that
still lack the drop in panel. Also, we are going to have to mix the full
sized ones up a bit. It is easy to see patterns of light and darker
whitewash coverage when they are inserted as they got painted. Some days
it was drier than others, some days we measured when we mixed the glaze,
other days not. We used a mixture or about 1/3 white oil base paint, 1/3
naptha, 1/3 mineral spirits. I wanted it thin and fast drying. |
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| Our chief painter, the
boss, unfortunately ran into a fist and maybe a foot or two at a
local 'social club' so while he is having surgery to rebuild his face,
his older brother and faithful helpers have been here to prime and paint
the woodwork, MgO walls and the ceilings. I decided that I wanted oil
based paint on everything. They did a good job of color matching the
slightly off white that is in the cement tiles and that is what
everything except in the master bedroom is getting painted. |
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Jeff and Joe who have painted the outside trim around the windows and
parts of the interior.
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David who was painting window trim
yesterday. I really like this photo, by the way.
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| All the men on the job are
begging me not to paint the doors. It is true that they are beautiful
wood, but the rooms are so mixed looking already with block walls,
painted walls, jazzy floors, dark hinges ( a mistake on my part) and
painted door trim and painted baseboards, that I just think it looks too
hodge-podge to leave the doors unpainted. The men say, Heck you could
have used Masonite doors if you were gonna paint them but I disagree. A
masonite door looks and feels totally different from a real solid wood
door whether it is painted or not. They are making me at least wait till
the very end to decide. The men like my white-wash finish on the
coffered ceiling, so they think I should also white wash the doors. What
do you think...email me and
say so. |
| We have had continued problems
with a leak in the guestroom bath. Right now the water is turned
off. Our plumber came out once and worked on it but it still leaks. I
called him again and again to come back and he said he would but he has
not been seen. He has yet to hook up the dishwasher and disposal.
We are very disappointed in him and will go w/ someone else for all other
plumbing needs. |
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Dave grouting the landing.
