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Display Name:	DAC10001
Member Since:	7/10/07

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Apologies on forgeting to capitalize your proper name MrQueen. Good Questions: How Can I Give My Bedroom A Makeover? Flag this comment	7/11/07 5:30 AM
gosh this was my first post here and already i'm getting hate from mrgreen. mrgreen writes: "People are giving you a lot of bad advice. You don't want to throw money away on new tiles..." Love the cowardly indirectness of 'people'... FYI the tiles I found are in the range of $2.95-$12.95 each, with other cute lower-cost options as well. With the tiles, you can stow the old crappy ones for your landlord and return the apartment in the condition you found it. Your landlord might give you grief if you paint the grid without permission... And maybe those tiles will serve another purpose in your next apartment- a screen to block out bitter neighbors for instance... Good Questions: How Can I Give My Bedroom A Makeover? Flag this comment	7/10/07 2:51 PM
Catherine, Good luck with your new place! I googled "acoustical ceiling tile grid" and came up with a cool supplier, Empire West, lots of styles and colors. I especially like the translucent (!) 'Roman Circles' ceiling tile: https://www.empirewest.com/store/series.cfm/SeriesID:16/CategoryID:2#462 but I bet there are more cool ones out there. It looks like you will need the 24" x 48" size, and a good cutting tool for the edges and around the sprinkler head in the photo- but it's pretty easy, the tiles are designed to drop in. While you're taking out those mundane office-y tiles and putting in your new designer tiles, look around- maybe there's an area where you don't need to put tiles back, where nothing above needs to be hidden. Maybe you can get a little extra height somewhere, maybe you can light the plenum and get a fabulous glow. As for the walls, I'd go with the hanging fabric if you can't paint or remove paper, but maybe you can do taut clean panels with cool fasteners like grommets and turnbuckles (fastened to the baseboard and the ceiling moulding, so that that the holes can be easily filled). And maybe one wall can have more textural treatment like cork or Flor tiles. Good Questions: How Can I Give My Bedroom A Makeover? Flag this comment	7/10/07 2:28 PM