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| I posted a while back about any tips for putting paintable beadboard wallpaper on ceiling and found I was about to be the guinea pig. I told my SIL that all I wanted for Christmas from her was two days for her to help me. Well, let me tell you, two folks is not enough--definitely have to have three and four was even better (my DH and nephew helped out). We decided to start in the new add-on in the den before going on to the kitchen and breakfast room. We have real beadboard up on the ceiling (and walls) in the old part of the house and were trying to match without the expense. Painting it comes next, but other than a few spots (which DH is convinced only I will see), I think it came out pretty good--what do y'all think? (The old beadboard is on the left, the new is on the right--we still have to caulk the old.) |
Here is a link that might be useful: wallpaper ceiling pic
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| I think it looks fabulous! I used what looks to be the same wallpaper on my kitchen island. It's been one year and is still holding up well. |
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| What a wonderfully creative way to get it all to "flow"! And, you have GOT to love you SIL (and the boys) for helping you achieve your goal. What a great gift she gave you. Looks great! |
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| So four people ,is that trick? I attempted to put up the tin look ceiling tile wallpaper on my ceiling my self and it was a disaster. Yours looks great. Thanks for posting the pic. its giving my incentive to try again only this time with help. |
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| !!!FABULOUS!!!! You're giving me ideas..... ):-p |
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- Posted by fancypants2008 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 12:40
| Wow! I have never heard of this wallpaper. It looks like the real thing! What a great idea to pull the room together. |
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| That looks amazing! You'd have to look really, really hard to determine if it was real or not! I didn't even know they made that wallpaper.....now my gears are turning! |
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- Posted by patches_02 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 13:18
| Looks great! Where did you find wallpaper like that? |
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- Posted by dilly_dally (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 14:43
| Thanks for sharing the results. It looks fantastic. I've been tossing the idea around of using it in my home and everyone keeps telling me it will look like crap and to just get real bead board. Your results look fantastic. My plan is to use it on the walls and put up a chair rail in the breakfast nook. I've seen it at Menards and it looks nice and thick with deep grooves in it. Was it tricky to put up? Now after seeing yours I am fantasizing about doing the ceiling just for fun. |
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| I want to get a sample of it to try on my looks-like-crap office ceiling. Which looks like crap because it's t&g wood; roof is directly above it, probably as old as the house (c. 100 yrs) & really showing its age. This is only thing I've seen that might be a viable aesthetic solution, IF it will look decent after installing it over an uneven surface. So add me to those who would like to know which brand you used & where you got it! |
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| Dang, that look GOOD! |
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| Brillant project! Looks wonderful! Well done to the whole team! LOL! :) Jan |
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- Posted by house_vixen (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 16:39
| That looks great! And may be an idea I can sell Mr Vix on since he's not keen to do real beadboard on our tall sloped bathroom ceiling.... We don't have a Menards here; can you share the manufacturer? |
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| Lowes carries it as well. |
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| It looks great and this is closing the door after the horse got out the barn, but did you consider using PVC wainscoting? I'm asking because it would have been easier to handle. I can't imagine trying to put paper on a ceiling. Applause for you!! |
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| I'm installing a lot of beadboard right now and I have to say, you did an amazing job. Putting the paper on the ceiling was a brilliant idea! I'm also a wallpaper kind of girl. :) |
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- Posted by farmhousebound (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 17:56
| Thanks everyone for the comments! It's nice to actually be able to give back on this forum after gaining so much myself. The paper is from grahambrown.com. I think there are other places that sell it but these folks were great in getting it to me quickly and I will be ordering more now that we know it will work to put in the new part of the kitchen and breakfast/keeping room. Believe it or not, SIL has volunteered to come back to help finish up (LOL)! When I first was looking for at a local wallpaper store they told me Lowe's used to carry but not sure now--when I went to Lowe's was told they no longer carry (in fact, ours around here don't carry any wallpaper). When I inquired of grahambrown as to any tips for putting on ceiling was told: prime, use the unpasted version, and use heavy duty paste. Directions were very simple: put paste on, book for 5 minutes, put up. What made a little more difficult is were were doing these in 13' strips to go completely across the room. Also meant I had and will have a lot of waste as these come in double rolls 33' long allowing me to get 2 strips per roll with 7' left over. SIL is contemplating doing her bathroom w/ some of the leftover. Just a couple of observations: I know I have seen this wallpaper used on one of these forums in the bathroom and would like to hear back regarding how it has held up on the walls so I can let SIL know. I say this because we found we had to be careful not to push too hard with a finger or scrape a fingernail across because the vinyl would "dent". Haven't had a chance to look closely to see if these have come out, though. When putting paste on, make sure you don't get any dirt--the smallest grain will show when you start to smooth down. Will try to add more when we get around to painting. moonkat--the rest of the farmhouse (built around 1935-36) is t&g walls and ceilings and we would have loved to have put up the same in the add-on but was too cost prohibitive for us. The beadboard in the old part of the house has separated quite a bit over the years due to past renters heating with a wood stove and not bringing in any humidity. I talked to local expert for any advice on caulking and he advised using a product called "MH Ready Patch" (professional formula spackling and patching compound). Well, we have done two rooms (LR &DR) walls and ceiling and love the way they came out. Would highly recommend trying before tearing down your old t&g ceiling. |
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| farmhouse - thanks so much for the info. It sounds like I would need to create a REALLY smooth surface for optimal results. Are you saying that you were going for, and achieved, a smooth surface with the MH product? I've patched & sanded & painted & patched & sanded this ceiling more than I care to think about, but I'm certainly willing to try a product that really works! I've managed to patch & sand all of the other surfaces in this house so that they look, at worst, decent, but this ceiling has been a nightmare. And I just hate to put a layer of anything with any thickness on it, since it slants down to a height of 6-1/2' on the window wall - every 1/2" counts! :D |
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- Posted by farmhousebound (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 18:42
| moonkat - Not sure if our situation was quite the same. Our beadboard was fairly smooth just had lots of separation between some of the t&g. DH is scraping some of the ceiling prior to painting (he does ceilings, I do walls). I am going to try and post some pics of some before and after pics of a wall and ceiling. Hope they help.
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- Posted by farmhousebound (My Page) on Wed, Dec 31, 08 at 19:06
| moonkat - sorry - haven't got this picture posting thing all figured out. The pic above is before pic of wall. Will try the rest again.
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| farmhouse thanks. I did have a lot of the same separation & took care of most of it w/ various spackle type products, looking for much the same result as you :) My beadboard, for the most part, isn't in as good a shape as yours, but I've salvaged what I could. The non-beaded t&g is another matter - I will try your product - the wall I've just uncovered has some issues (of course! lol), & I would love to have a good quality, easy to work with, effective wood spackle on hand! And what beautiful work you're doing! I remember the first pic I saw of your kitchen & "new" stove in the kitchen forum - my jaw just dropped! |
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| Take a look at grahambrown.com They carry paintable wallpaper designed for walls and ceilings. Was thinking of buying their beadboard paper but have not done it yet. Also, you can request free samples. One of the samples I requested was similar to a tin ceiling. Beautiful. |
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| Our Lowes has a very large selection of the textured paintable wall paper. It covers ruff walls really well I will try to post some before pics tomarrow. The paper gets stronger after it has been painted and totally dried. I think kids could pick at it though .Mine has been up for 5 years and its is still as good as new but my kids aren,t to hard on walls just carpets. |
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| madeyna I would love to see your before pics - if they're as uneven as this ceiling, & you got good coverage, then I have hope! |
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| Holy smokes, it looks fabulous! I'm a bit sad, but not surprised to learn it took four people ... is that four people all on ladders at the same time? I'm thinking this might be a wonderful solution to when we scrape off those popcorn ceilings, and don't know where to go from there. Does your ceiling have to be perfect for this to work? Or would it cover some flaws? |
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 here is the pre-textured paper wall. |
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- Posted by newdawn1895 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 3, 09 at 9:09
| Looks really good, job well done. I have beadboard all over my house too, ceilings and walls. I bet your ceilings are real high too, are they? If so, I can see how it would take four people. .....Jane |
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| If covers holes and creavises really well put not anything protruding out . I think if I had a surface with things poking out away from the wall I would just take some ruff sandpaper on my elec.sander and knock it off that way. |
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| Wow, that's impressive, and you sure could have fooled me! It's giving me all sorts of ideas, too!! After spending four afternoons to steam and strip horrible wallpaper off my bedrooms walls, I "swore" I'd never hang another inch of wallpaper again!! Problem is, I love bead board and we already have it in several rooms of our house. I truly wanted to have it beneath the chair rail in our bedroom, but didn't want to go through the expense, time, disruption and labor to install it there. I had already decided, once the wallpaper was removed showing the off white wall beneath the chair rail, that the blue that I wanted to see in this yellow room needed to be introduced into accessories, pillows and other accents, but not as paint on the walls. The yellow and creamy-white just looks too soothing to try to alter. This would be an easy alternative to get what I always wanted in the first place....now all I need to do is convince DH, lol! Just two days ago I told him that if I ever mentioned the word "wallpaper" again, to hit me over the head or hide the car keys, but, dang, that sure looks good!! |
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| Thanks, Madeyna. I'll remember that. |
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| Thanks for the feedback madeyna :) I've ordered a sample, & will check local places. My old t&g ceiling may be too warped, but I'm thinking that, IF the wallpaper 'boards' match the width of my ceiling boards, I just might be able to fake it. It would be heaven to have a decent looking ceiling in here w/o losing any inches of space! |
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- Posted by laurenk88_pa (My Page) on Mon, Jan 5, 09 at 15:24
| I'm not sure how I missed this thread, but I used paintable beadboard wall paper in my kitchen. I really like it. I'm not home or I'd post a pic. I was not able to get it through Lowes, they said they no longer carried it. I found it online. |
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| That turned out fantastic, it looks wonderful !! How's you're kitchen going? |
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- Posted by farmhousebound (My Page) on Wed, Jan 7, 09 at 10:06
| zipdee--kitchen is going s-l-o-w-l-y as we are working throughout the renovation, not just on the kitchen. I thought we were going to get the pantry done enough over the holidays that I could post some pics but ran into a snag there as well. Maybe after this coming weekend (had to go back to work after the holidays so now back to just weekends for working on the house). I have ordered some more beadboard wallpaper since the den turned out so well and my SIL and I will start on the new part of the kitchen ceiling once it arrives. DH will also be starting on the trim around windows/baseboard/crown as soon as it arrives (back-ordered). We will get there at some point. Thanks for the compliment on the ceiling! |
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| Wow, looks great! I can't believe it's wallpaper - it looks like the real thing. What kind of paint do you use on it? I'm trying to figure out something for kitchen backsplash (and eventually MBA walls), even the beadboard "panels" (not strips) at HD are too $$$, but wallpaper would work. Lauren - did you use gloss or semigloss over it in your kitchen? How does it stand up to water and scrubbing? |
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- Posted by laurenk88_pa (My Page) on Wed, Jan 7, 09 at 13:18
| Hey there, I believe I used semi-gloss, but will check at home. It wipes ok, but I haven't actually "scrubbed" it. The wallpaper hasn't had any real water contact yet...knock on wood! |
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- Posted by eastcoaster_2009 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 11, 09 at 14:37
| Just wondering - how did the beadboard wallpaper hold up on the ceiling? Also - did you find that the shipping charges were a lot since the paper is coming from the UK? |
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