subject: Remodelers Kitchen Contractors [print this page] Although this is probably the largest single surface in any room - and the last thing we see at night - the ceiling is often overlooked by home remodelers as an opportunity to differentiate their homes during renovation or redecoration project. Nevertheless, 98 percent of all homes built today use simple white plaster to drywall ceiling surfaces, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
This fact represents a unique opportunity for homeowners to create a warm, inviting, custom look and feel of your home - for less money than they would spend on other, less visible remodeling projects.
Many new and affordable products to the surface of the ceiling is currently on the market. Armstrong Building Products, an industry leader in product ceiling, is one company that seeks to explore the unique opportunities for the design of ceilings. Through various companies line of unique, as wood, ceiling boards, patterned ceiling tiles and textured ceiling panels, homeowners now have a wide range of cosmetic repairs ceiling options.
Many of the new ceiling products on the market are well suited for homeowners to install that ceiling remodeling project surprisingly affordable for homeowners ready to solve this kind of remodeling project "We want customers to have High-End design, but also attainable prices," said Bill Vaughan, Marketing Manager for residential ceilings Armstrong. "Our line of Woodhaven , for example, gives a warm, cozy kind of wood-grain ceiling planks to share the cost of real wood ceiling.
Woodhaven ceiling planks are made from medium-density fiberboard so they are lightweight, durable and easy to do-it-yourselfers to install. Language-and-groove system used to resolve these ceiling planks to be installed over cracked ceilings or textured surface that makes this type of product is ideal for use in the old home, where the existing ceiling surface is far from ideal.
For homeowners interested in capturing some of the old world charm in their more modern houses Armstrong also offers a collection of tin look ceiling tile systems that replicate the appearance of the eyelids pressed metal ceilings. TinLook ceiling tile made of mineral fiberboard, but are formed in a variety of different models that look like tin ceilings are usually found in prestigious homes in late 1800 in America.
Quick visit to the paint department at a local home improvement center, you can easily customize these tiles to meet any interior. Especially popular among homeowners Faux finishes in bronze, tin or silver colors. Antiquing washes can also be used to highlight the textures and models of tin look ceiling tiles.