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   McDesign | Nov 06, 2008 11:18pm | #1

   Great!  Ceilings are greatly overlooked for decorating.

   Or maybe underlooked?

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   Edited 11/6/2008 3:19 pm ET by McDesign

   
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   jonblakemore | Nov 07, 2008 12:16am | #2

   Ceilings are OVERlooked, floors are UNDERlooked. 

   Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA

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   jonblakemore | Nov 07, 2008 12:17am | #3

   Do you miss the space you had to steal from above? It appears that there is a partially finished area over the room in question.

   Or maybe you live in an apartment and your neighbors above you are on a three week cruise?

    

   Jon Blakemore

   RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA

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   YesMaam27577 | Nov 07, 2008 12:26am | #4

   With the fan being recessed into the well like that, how much air will it move? Seems it might be rather ineffedctive.

   On the other hand, it might be the only way to get a designer/decorator to like a ceiling fan.

   Politics is the antithesis of problem solving.
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   bc | Nov 07, 2008 02:02am | #5

   looks good... but where is the stripper pole?

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   Dudley | Nov 07, 2008 07:51pm | #6

   All -- tks for the shrinking to something that is manageable.

   This is the story - my wife bought all new bedroom furniture - not one stick or article is old in the new room -- it was a chance to do some major embellishments - still need to do the crown - could not do crown portion as the window treatment (they are heavy curtains that come down at night that are as energy efficient as possible) that may have interfered with the hanging so crown has to wait until curtians are up to finish

   The area above is dead space - it is the gable roof area that is accessed though a second floor bedroom half door -- the area includes the area above the den, bathroom, and bedroom -- the raised portion is a portion that is difficult to get to and will not be used

   The fan and air movement issue - we keep the AC as high as we can and use the BR fan to keep the air moving because the fan is supposed to make it feel like it is 3 degrees cooler.  The bulk of the queen bed will be directly beneath the fan.  the fan size will keep the room air turbulent enough for us to benefit - granted it will not be as efficient as it was before, but it will suffice

   One big plus (even though we have lived in the house for 12 years) we did not realize it did not have one speck of insulation in the bedroom ceiling - ceiling joists were all floored over -- so we are going to insulate like crazy. 

   On the pole, not sure it is in the scope/plans

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   Dudley | Nov 08, 2008 05:01pm | #7

   Trying to get a ceiling photo thread started like Mike Smith and others are able to do with his/their wonderful essays and detailed pictures on his/their projects.

   I have 2 more ceilings to do and want to expand the horizon - what have others done that will give me the ideas to create something that is different.  I do not want to copy what has been done in the bedroom - need ideas for a den with mahogany book cases and a 14 x 26 living room that has 10' bay windows at either end and a beautiful fireplace and mantel.

   Any and all ceiling proposals welcome -- all the best Dudley

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   McDesign | Nov 08, 2008 06:23pm | #9

   Here's my dining room ceiling -View Image

   And our master bath -View Image

   Forrest

   Edited 11/8/2008 10:24 am ET by McDesign

   
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   frammer52 | Nov 08, 2008 06:40pm | #10

   I love what you haven't done to your bath!!!!!>G<

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   McDesign | Nov 09, 2008 01:49am | #11

   Oh, it's MUCH nicer now after 16 years!

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   Edited 11/8/2008 5:49 pm ET by McDesign

   
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   frammer52 | Nov 09, 2008 06:44pm | #12

   your ddreaction is priceless!!!!!!!

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   Dudley | Nov 10, 2008 10:26am | #14

   WOW - I love the whole affair especailly the first one showing the work involved - Wish I coul see the whole room to see the motif

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   McDesign | Nov 10, 2008 02:02pm | #15

   Thanks!  Here's a pic of the dining room when it was my shop for 4-5 years.

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   And a shot of the room now from the same angle - back left corner is the same -

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   Forrest

   Edited 11/10/2008 6:04 am ET by McDesign

   
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   Dudley | Nov 10, 2008 06:16pm | #16

   That is gorgeous -- the room is so warm and inviting - I know what the shop vs the dining room picture represents -- I worked on a house in the 70's that we lived and worked on weekends and nights -- 4 years of sweat.  Police came by one morning I was tearing the first floor ceiling out and asked "what are you doing here?"

   I said "I live here"

   Police said -"YOU LIVE HERE????? Do you have everything of value engraved with your SSN?"

   I said, "Yes"

   Then the policeman said - "Is the refrigerator engraved too?  If it is not, engrave it too"

   This is only 8 blocks from the US Capitol -- what a ride, stories I could tell

   We still are working on the second house since the one we did in the 70's (a house that we moved into 12 years ago) - and will work on it till I die

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   JohnT8 | Nov 10, 2008 07:49pm | #17

   Dude... you messed up your workshop!  Can't build stuff in that room anymore.

    

   ;)

    jt8

   The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. -- John Gardner

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   Piffin | Nov 11, 2008 01:07am | #18

   Did you guys stencil that dining rm ceiling?AndYou know I gotta -
   Is that master bath the right photo? 

    

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   McDesign | Nov 11, 2008 01:24am | #19

   Yes - I zeroxed some Arts & Crafts fireplace tile from a magazine, scanned them and traced them in AutoCAD; printed them full size and cut them out with an Exacto, leaving connecting bridges as I went.  After the stenciling was done, DW went back and painted in all the bridges.

   The trick was, the ceiling was stenciled before it was put up - those are 22" squares of 1/2" DW screwed to a suspended ceiling of 1/2" plywood.  Wood covers the screws and gaps.

   And yes - that other photo is the master bath when we got the house, when it was the "center back upstairs bedroom".  We divided it into a master bath and closet off a short hall, and a hall bath.

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   Forrest - supposed to be drawing a light fixture

   Edited 11/10/2008 5:26 pm ET by McDesign

   
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    JohnT8 | Nov 12, 2008 07:51pm | #20

    Where's our updated photos?  As an office weenie, you would have gotten Veterans day off and even after honoring the vets, you would probably have had time to work on the house.

     

     jt8

    The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. -- John Gardner

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    McDesign | Nov 12, 2008 08:58pm | #21

    Soon!  I was working on the stoop roof.

    Forrest

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   Dudley | Nov 08, 2008 05:08pm | #8

   bump

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   gstringe | Nov 09, 2008 08:48pm | #13

   Nice work, but...I would never put a light behind fan blades. Ran into one once at a TGI Fridays that had a light behind one of their ceiling fans, It acted like a a strobe light and the frequency was just right I guess, cause we had to request to move, it really interferes with the the brain after a while.

   Nobody gets in to see the wizard...not nobody...not no how!