{"id":396,"date":"2015-12-28T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewarbird.com\/projects\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-12-28T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T02:39:44","slug":"diamonds-draperies-and-squares-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewarbird.com\/projects\/index.php\/2015\/12\/28\/diamonds-draperies-and-squares-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds, draperies, and squares… OH MY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the ‘holy crap this thing is coming together’ category, the ceiling is pretty much buttoned up!\u00a0 I settled on some red burlap from a local fabric store.\u00a0 Walmart gave me the idea but their product was around $4\/yard and was only about 47″ wide, which would mean I’d have needed about 20 yards of the stuff.\u00a0 So I trekked over to a fabric store, they only had brown and orange.\u00a0 Went to the other fabric store and hit pay dirt.\u00a0 They had 3 large rolls of red that were 60″ wide and $6\/yard.\u00a0 So I grabbed a couple of yards to do some test tiles.<\/p>\n

The tile frames were made from some of the same 1.5″ MDF stock I used on the pilasters ripped in half, braced in the corners and stapled together top and bottom.\u00a0 I used the MDF because it’s perfectly straight compared to something like furring strips which would have drove me nuts finding a dozen straight enough to make perfect squares.\u00a0 This actually made a rather rigid frame to stretch and staple the fabric to.\u00a0 In the end I ended up having to make 28 squares and 4 diamonds using 10 yards of the burlap and somewhere in the area of 1,500 staples.\u00a0 I’ll be typing only with my left hand for a month!\u00a0 The smell of the burlap is already fading away.<\/p>\n

Painting the track with the same paint as the ceiling was somewhat of a flop.\u00a0 I didn’t think to scuff or clean them before painting and even the slightest touch was almost like wiping across a white board.\u00a0 You can see in the pics I had several that still needed painting after they were cut to fit.\u00a0 For those I scuffed them with sandpaper, used some spray paint as a base, then painted them with the flat ceiling paint.\u00a0 This seems to give everything a good bond.\u00a0 I probably could have got flat black spay paint but beings I had the exact match I went the route I did with only a little extra labor.<\/p>\n

And finally in this update, on to the walls!\u00a0 We’re going with some basic curtain panels in a red as well.\u00a0 I thought 1 panel would be enough to give a little bit of a pleated look but I think we’re going to end up with 2 panels for each section.\u00a0 Pictured is a test with just one panel.\u00a0 For mounting, I started off planning to use PVC pipe and then opted to recycle materials I had on hand.\u00a0 I had several sections of the L shaped wall ceiling track material.\u00a0 I cut that to length, popped a couple of holes in it for nails and used some small finish nails to hang them.\u00a0 It’s questionable whether this will change because I don’t think the nails will keep them from popping off when things get rumbly… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Next up:<\/p>\n