We Ordered the Half Bath Ceiling

When we first bought our house and updated the upstairs bathroom, we hired a plumber to fix some things up. He replaced our super-slow bath tub drain that was improperly installed when the house was built. We were of course very glad to have it fixed, but were left with a huge hole in the half bath ceiling and a new drain pipe that was 2” lower than the plaster. Ever since then the bathroom has only gone downhill.

Our plumber recommended that we install a drop tile ceiling instead of drywall to allow for additional future access (in old houses things break). But I couldn’t bare the thought of installing those ugly, cheesy tiles that belong in office buildings and retro basements. So I researched other options and fell in love with the idea of doing a faux tin ceiling. It’s a little bit more expensive, but in such an extremely small space it wasn’t bad.

The pattern we chose is by shanko and comes from Home Depot online. It comes in 2 ft x 2 ft sheets, so we only needed 4 of them to cover the whole thing. We also bought the matching suspension kit and are waiting for everything to arrive.