Installing Matting on a Ceiling - Other Crafts

L LavaLounger Member The Great Plains of Kansas Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 81	L LavaLounger Posted posted on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 8:45 AM Aw man, thanks guys. Now I don't feel like such a lame-oid mat sticker. I can hang wallpaper like a pro, but this matting is making me crazy! I ended up yanking down some of the pieces I had up because it was never "square". Guess I'm just going to have to try to deal with wicky-wacky-tiki-tacky ceilings! Now I'll have to find a bamboo source in Kansas so I can hide the horrible seams. I had a few decent pieces of bamboo that my kids got me on a trip in Florida and I drilled out the membranes to run my electrical wires around so you couldn't see them. But I only have a couple little pieces left, not enough for the ceiling. ANy of you guys have a bamboo source?? Is it expensive?? I had fishnets draped around the ceiling in my old tiki bar and hung all the stuff I didn't know what to do with up there, leis, hibiscus flowers, used drink umbrellas, plastic crabs, twinkle lights, small annoying children..etc, I'd keep tossing an item up there until it'd "stick" and that's where it remained, so it was very "unplanned"....should have gone with that idea in the new bar. I just wanna FINISH it so I can put all the tools away, clean it up, decorate and get about the serious business of entertaining! LavaLounger Kansas-tiki oblivion

Aw man, thanks guys. Now I don't feel like such a lame-oid mat sticker. I can hang wallpaper like a pro, but this matting is making me crazy! I ended up yanking down some of the pieces I had up because it was never "square". Guess I'm just going to have to try to deal with wicky-wacky-tiki-tacky ceilings! Now I'll have to find a bamboo source in Kansas so I can hide the horrible seams. I had a few decent pieces of bamboo that my kids got me on a trip in Florida and I drilled out the membranes to run my electrical wires around so you couldn't see them. But I only have a couple little pieces left, not enough for the ceiling. ANy of you guys have a bamboo source?? Is it expensive??

I had fishnets draped around the ceiling in my old tiki bar and hung all the stuff I didn't know what to do with up there, leis, hibiscus flowers, used drink umbrellas, plastic crabs, twinkle lights, small annoying children..etc, I'd keep tossing an item up there until it'd "stick" and that's where it remained, so it was very "unplanned"....should have gone with that idea in the new bar. I just wanna FINISH it so I can put all the tools away, clean it up, decorate and get about the serious business of entertaining!

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Kansas-tiki oblivion

Post #207529 by LavaLounger on Sat, Jan 14, 2006 8:45 AM