Tin Ceiling Application Variations

Applications
Tin ceiling panels can be used for more than beautifying your ceiling. Our customers have used our tin ceiling panels for various applications such as walls, windows, backsplashes, fireplaces, countertops, cupboards, doors, Wainscoting, accent pieces, headboards, art décor, metal sculpture and more. The applications are limited only by your imagination.

Layout
There are various installation layouts that can be used to install a tin ceiling. The basic and complex layouts discussed on our website are commonly used, but there are numerous custom and designer layouts that can be used to create unique and dramatic ceilings.

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Basic Layout, Wall to Wall, Halved Perimeter

Determine the design layout for the ceiling.

There are three common design variations for a tin ceiling. You can get very creative when installing a tin ceiling, but these three are the most common design layouts and they will provide the fundamentals from which all other design layouts can be conceived.

1. Wall to Wall Panels, with a half-trimmed perimeter.

The installation begins in one corner with full panels. When you reach the opposite side, the remaining perimeter panels are trimmed to fit flush against the wall. This is the most basic installation method and the easiest.

Average Layout, Wall to Wall, Balanced Perimeter, Centered
2. Wall to Wall Panels, trimmed proportionately around the perimeter, centering the ceiling.

This is the most common installation method. When using SnapLock™, determine the partial panel sizes on all sides of the perimeter, then cut panels to fit in the first half of the perimeter. Install the first partial panel in a corner, then work in columns along either wall until only the opposing perimeter remains. Trim the final perimeter panels to fit flush against the wall and install them.
24" Design Layout, Bordered w/Filler, Molding for transition.

3. Whole Field Panels bordered with filler.

This is the most common installation method when utilizing a 24" embossment design pattern. Execute your panel installation as in scenario 2, except use trimmed filler in the perimeter area. To produce a nice transition between embossed panel and hammered filler, cover the seam where the filler meets the field panel with a flat molding.

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Why are Tin Ceilings so popular today?

Tin Ceilings remind us of a different time in our country's history. Tin Ceilings stir memories of gentler days when elegance and beauty reigned. A slower paced era where style and grace were the watchwords in home decor. Old time victorian homes, formal parlors, farmhouses with wood burning stoves and other historic architecture we've seen in literature and film or remember from our childhood.

It is said that "Everything Old Becomes New Again". It reinvents itself and becomes fashionable again, perhaps because it was so fashionable in the first place. Fashion goes in and out of style as modern ideas are introduced to the market. But the popular styling's of the past always cycle back into modern contemporary culture. The Tin Ceiling exemplifies this concept.