Transform Your Pub, Bar or Nightclub with Faux Tin Drop In Ceiling Tiles
To all pub, bar and nightclub owners – are you looking for ways to decorate your establishment, to give it a touch of class, to lend it some style, to make it stand out from the crowd? Do you have any idea how easy and cheap it can be to have a tin ceiling like this:
Tin ceilings became popular in America in the middle of the nineteenth century. Wealthy Europeans often adorned their homes with elaborate decorative plaster ceilings, and, though very beautiful, this was not a very practical solution in America. The tin ceiling was America’s middle-class equivalent to European plaster ceilings. It was very easy to mass produce tin tiles at that time.
Tin was light in weight, easy to work with, and easy to stamp with intricate detail – superior to plaster in many ways, making it the material of choice for many Americans. So, in the mid-nineteenth century, countless ceilings in hotels, homes and businesses were covered with embossed metal panels.
In the early twentieth century interest in tin ceilings waned, as other materials became more prevalent. But the surge of interest in renovation architecture in the late twentieth century led to renewed interest in tin ceilings, and many companies started producing real tin and faux tin tiles for decorating new buildings and renovating old ones.
Despite their great beauty, decorative plaster ceilings which were popular amongst wealthy Europeans had several disadvantages for Americans – they took a long time to mold and were difficult to ship due to their weight. They were also very difficult to apply to unfinished ceilings. It was much cheaper to use tin tiles, with their ease of installation and suitability for fine-detailed work.
Tin tiles also resisted mildew and moisture and absorbed sound well, and had the potential to last much longer than drywall or plaster could. For ease of installation, the tin panels could be nailed into wood, and the square panels were light and easy to handle.
The popularity of tin ceilings peaked in the last decade of the nineteenth century, after which a less ornate effect became fashionable, and much of the tin ornamentation was covered with acoustic drop-ceiling tiles or drywall. Many years later, when people began to look nostalgically back to the grandeur of the past, restoration experts began to remove these coverings to reveal the original tin ceiling below.
Most tin ceilings were found to be remarkably well preserved. A certain amount of stripping, mending or repainting was usually called for, but most of the tin ceilings restored in this way had withstood the passage of time much better than anyone could have foretold.
To meet the growing interest in both restoring original tin ceilings, and creating new ones, there are online merchants who produce tin tiles in a range of traditional designs. The nostalgia for the American Victorian era ensures there is a good supply of silver, copper, and antiqued finishes, as well as custom designs to suit more contemporary architecture.
Just take a look at how impressive faux tin, drop in, ceiling tiles could look in your pub, bar, hotel, restaurant or nightclub. This is an Irish pub in California, and the ceiling is decorated with tiles from DecorativeCeilingTiles.net:
Some people opt to paint their tin ceilings to give the appearance of plaster, while others prefer the original metal look. And quite stunning it looks, too! As well as real tin, faux tin drop in tiles are available. These have even more advantages over their metal counterparts – these 24 x 24″ tiles are cheaper and lighter, and can be dropped into a grid system or glued to a flat surface. And, last but not least, they look terrific!
