Renovating a small guest room (formerly a storage room) with dimensions 360x220cm.
I've taken down the old ceiling drywall and will be putting up new ones. I want to use as little spackle as possible, so I was thinking of using beveled edge drywall and only spackling the screw holes.
The ceiling will then have a grid pattern. Is this a common way to do it? Or will it look ridiculous and office-like?
The drywall comes in 2 lengths; 240 or 120cm. 120cm is obviously easier to handle but it will REALLY make the ceiling look grid-like.
What do you think? Will it look bad to use 120cm drywall and create a grid pattern on the ceiling?
Also have smooth ceilings in all other rooms but since we got a lot of leftover ceiling gypsum, we decided to use it. We put up double layers since our bedroom is above and one of our sons used to live in that room. Clearly much less spackling work but more planning of the joints. No gypsum lift is needed either, but a support can be helpful.
I installed tongue-and-groove MDF in a room upstairs, around 30m2. It took some time to install studs at 270mm centers on the old wood plank ceiling, but then two people put up the boards in a couple of hours. No spackling or other afterwork is needed.
We had 240 long in the living room and hall, which was convenient, but in large rooms, it's extremely important that the first row is completely straight... use a laser.
When we then did the bedrooms, we used bevelled gypsum boards all around, with a metal strip behind the joints (attached directly to the old ceiling), then putty... sand, putty, THEN, we applied fiberglass fabric (first tested without it but got some small cracks despite putty tape slept.)
and the fiberglass fabric was then filled with fill-paint, then painting. completely smooth ceiling, not a crack.
It was a lot of work, but still worth it if you want a smooth ceiling...
if you want something even easier, there are 120x60 huntonit boards that are tongue-and-grooved and pre-painted, which saves a lot of time. If you're not making it smooth, I would have just as easily taken those.
Put it in the kitchen, the wife hated it. Had to fill the seams and put EasyCover renovation wallpaper over it
Hope you have shown great appreciation for your wife's excellent sense of aesthetics.
It's insanely ugly with visible seams in the ceiling (gypsum or chipboard).
Hope you have shown great appreciation for your wife's eminent aesthetic sense.
It's horribly ugly with visible seams in the ceiling (gypsum or chipboard).
I agree, but if the instructions had been a bit clearer from the start, I would have saved a lot of work and done it right from the beginning... I only have smooth ceilings.
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