The ceiling tile arrived this past week, so I began to try and figure out out to arrange them. I had talked with a friend, Alan, about how to start them. He's done a lot of home restoration/remodeling. The instructions gave two ideas: find the middle of the room and start there or start at the corner farthest from the main entry. I thought the farthest corner would be fine and Alan concurred. But he said the corner had to be square.
I went to the corner with the carpenters square and found it was not square. I thought the quarter round used as crown molding may have been a problem, so I took it off.
I discovered the wallpaper on the ceiling wasn't as secure as I thought. The quarter round was holding it up! So after the quarter round was removed, I started taking off the wallpaper. This worked because I was a bit stymied as to how to end the tile where the dining area met the living room.
As I was peeling off wallpaper, I learned more about the house. At some point, the ceiling in the dining area was textured. But plaster was used to smooth it out so wallpaper could be put over it. And then when I got to peeling the wallpaper off the kitchen ceiling, I discovered even uglier wallpaper.
In the kitchen, the wallpaper was more securely attached. I stopped there.
But I went back to my corner with my trusty carpenters square, and it is not square. I will have to start in the middle of the ceiling, whereever that it!
This is such appropriate work to my teaching geometry this fall!
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