For five years Emily Wright stared up her house’s “stomped stalactite ceilings” wishing they’d disappear. Then she came up with an inexpensive solution: DIY beadboard paneling that she and her husband, Shane Pribbel, were able to install themselves over the existing plasterwork.
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We rip apart our kitchen and start over Self taught remodelers actually Shane did have a construction job one summer in high school says Emily the two have jointly tackled all...
...of the work in their house themselves including adding new windows and a new roof yes I actually got up on the roof she says plus a gut renovation of the kitchen
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For a long time, the couple couldn’t figure out an obvious tack to take with the ceilings: “We felt stuck with them because tearing them down or re-drywalling are both messy, painful tasks,” writes Emily in her blog.
Thinking about coffered ceilings put Emily on the right track Our ceilings are only eight feet tall so I knew a traditional coffered ceiling wouldn t work but I finally...
...figured out that we could cover them with beadboard and trim to create a lightly coffered look The black pendant lamp is the Hektar Pendant Lamp from Ikea 24 99
The couple tackled one room at a time, including the ceiling in their newly overhauled kitchen.
“Some paint and several tubes of caulk later, and you have a coffered-looking ceiling.”
“Caulking and painting were by far the hardest part,” reports Emily. The walls, trim, and ceilings are painted in Valspar Ultra White from Lowe’s.
The couple’s black and white bedroom was where they first tested the coffered ceiling idea.
“I’m not sure what the technical term for our ceilings is,” says Emily.
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“On top of the texture, we had years of previous water damage and terrible repair jobs to portions of the ceiling.”