Posted 2013-07-02 8:57 AM (#153067) Subject: DIY Soft Touch Ceiling....
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Location: Richmond, VA
Hubby and I our converting our dressing room into a small weekender. We are going to imitate a soft touch ceiling by covering 1/4" plywood with faux leather upholstry. We are thinking it would be less of a headache to cover the plywood before installing it on the ceiling. However we are stuck with how to hang the finished product without having the nails show.
Any ideas/instuction would be greatly appreciated.
Posted 2013-07-02 9:06 AM (#153068 - in reply to #153067) Subject: RE: DIY Soft Touch Ceiling....
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Posts: 5870 Location: western PA
Cut thin strips of the plywood and cover them with the same ceiling material. Apply them over the adjoining seams of your plywood panels using upholstery staples or finishing nails. Or you can use fancy hardware and accentuate the strips with screws, upholstery nails etc. You can also apply Velcro to the backside and simply press the strips into place with no fasteners.
Posted 2013-07-02 7:14 PM (#153090 - in reply to #153067) Subject: RE: DIY Soft Touch Ceiling....
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Posts: 123 Location: illinois
IN our last trailer we did the same thing with our ceiling and we used conchos to cover the screws. It gave the ceiling a nice finished look, we got a lot of complements on it.
Posted 2013-10-05 3:58 PM (#155180 - in reply to #153067) Subject: RE: DIY Soft Touch Ceiling....
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This is exactly what we are trying to figure out also.I understand the strips for where the boars meet together.But what about the middle of the board where there are no strips?
Posted 2013-10-06 8:30 AM (#155184 - in reply to #153067) Subject: RE: DIY Soft Touch Ceiling....
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Posts: 342 Location: MS
If you are worried about the plywood sagging, make the strips of plywood narrower. Run the plywood side to side instead of lengthwise. In Todd Redwrench's tutorial, he uses tongue and groove for the whole trailer interior, so that doesn't really apply if you are wanting soft touch ceiling.If you are worried because you don't have enough strips to nail your plywood to, put in more support strips! If you don't have your ceiling in yet, that should be an easy fix.Use automotive headliner contact cement to glue the fabric to the plywood. It holds up better in heat and cold than regular contact cement...that is what it is made to do! We used a contrasting material for covering the strips that hide the seams. Then used very small brads in an airgun to put up both the plywood and the concealing strips. The strips were covered in a dark faux leather, and the heads of the brads didn't show at all.
DIY Soft Touch Ceiling....
