I gotta stop coming up with dumb ideas.

Karl Brogger

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Sunburst ceiling panel for my house flipping project in the front entry.

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It's only dumb because I could've done million things differently that wouldn't have created a ton less work for myself. It will be pretty cool though. I've never done anything like this before and there were some things to learn. My math skills are pretty terrible outside of basic arithmetic. Thankfully we've got the interwebs nowadays and I could use someone else's smarts to figure out what the rise/run of the parts are.

Originally I was going to just paint this. Now I'm leaning towards finishing it and doing a mix of colors. The colors here aren't the ones I'll use. I just flipped a few to get a feel for what they'd look like and stained the backside with whatever was laying around the shop. My wife likes the idea of more variety, whereas I like the cross in the middle. It kinda reminds me of a Templars cross.



Thoughts?


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Nope. Not for me. The sublimity of the design in one color will speak volumes with no other help. Contrasting colors are too over stated here. Let the wandering eye drift upward and be surprised and appreciative. Especially if you are flipping this house.

Just my humble opinion.
 
Nope. Not for me. The sublimity of the design in one color will speak volumes with no other help. Contrasting colors are too over stated here. Let the wandering eye drift upward and be surprised and appreciative. Especially if you are flipping this house.

Just my humble opinion.

True. I'm torn about what to do.
 
and a solid color it is.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the floor. It is going to be getting the same cherry base as the rest of the house, but the casing on the doors and the crown is going to be painted. The room is basically 53"x53", I might just wrap a piece of birch plywood in pre-stained cherry and coat the whole thing in epoxy. Then coat the whole underside in thinset or trowel out PL400 and slap it down. Maybe not even bother glueing it down. Just add a thin layer of foam like under a laminate floor to keep squeaks and pops at bay and let it float. Let the base and shoe hold it in place. The floor in the kitchen is birch, and a pretty close color match to this stuff, so I'd probably stain the birch center section of the floor the with the same stain. It'd be close enough in color, even though the ceiling is soft maple. Side by side it might be an issue with the color, but I think it'll pass doing it this way.


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Sometimes it is good to get a woman involved with a project like this. They will usually have a better idea how to bring things together when it comes to decor. YMMV ;)


There was opinions in every which direction on this from everyone I posed the question to. It varied wildly, but the plainer option won out just because I'm not going to be living with it.





It is stained, poly'd, polished, and all the splines are installed. I need to make a couple of pieces to hold it up to the ceiling while I'm assembling it, (that will also act as backer for the crown), but other than that it ready to be installed. I might tackle that Friday.

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What I'm not looking forward to, is the whole thing will have to be able to float while it is going up. I can't really fasten anything until all 40 pieces are in place because I know from sticking it into a jig, there will be some shimming happening to get everything to fit tightly. Plus, just being nature of the beast, I'll either have to yank one spline out, or shift everything to one corner so I can get the last piece put in. It's going to be tricky.
 
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And its up!

I just need to paint the walls, paint up some crown and install it, figure out what I'm doing with the floor, do my casing and base, plus the ledge like the bathroom and back entryway and this room will be done.

This was a bit of a nightmare to put up. Nothing can be fixed as your slipping parts together as they all need to be able to move once in so you can use the wedges to tighten things up. It wasn't overly pleasant. Doing it again I would've made sure my T+G bead board on the walls went tight to the ceiling as that cause some problems. I cut it pretty sloppily, because I didn't see a reason to fight it. I could've gone a bit tighter.


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Non-accidental logo placement.
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and the new boob light installed.
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That whole room was pretty ugly. I had to jack up that corner of the porch and set it on a new footing. In doing so it popped all the paint, and opened up some of the old, (and very tired), bead board. I like beads to be vertical anyways. They look strange to me running horizontally.
 
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