Trimming Out the Ceiling
We were quite hapy with the new ceiling, but everything was still a little unfinished. The plan from the beginning was to use RGB LED light strips to trim the gaps in the ceiling, using nice aluminim corner diffuser bars. This would not only serve as a great indirect lighting feature, but also trim out any gaps between the ceiling and side cabinets.
While I worked on cuting diffuser bars out and getting lighting set up, Julie was working on doors for the cabinets and other trim items.
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We didn't like the bright screw hardware holding the ceiling up, and wanted black screws for the cabinet doors to -so she took some time to spray paint a bunch of screws so that we could replace the ones in the ceiling as well as have some black screws on hand for doing the doors.
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We didn't want an all dark ceiling, so we decided to brighten things up with lighter doors. We looked at various poster-sized maps on Amazon until we found one with a color pallet we liked. When they came in, she wrapped the doors that I cut from 1/4" Luan in the maps, then painted the back sides white to hide the edges of the maps that were folded onto the back sde of the doors.
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Light strips were mounted..
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Doors were mounted...
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And the end result is stunning! The new black screws holding the ceiling look so much better. The map doors not only brighten up the ceiling, but add some needed contrast up top. The light difusers along the perimeter frame the ceiling nicely, cover any gaps and just tie everything together. For the first time, we can lay in the bed, look up and see something actually finished!
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And now, having both direct and indirect lighting is as functional as it is fun.
We still have odds and ends to finish. We need a method to hold the upper doors open, as well as magnetic latches to kep them closed fully - but nothing major.
We would also like to add some direct lighting to the underside of the cabinets, but we wil get to this in good time.