Check out these ceilings from Valley Tin Works

Valley Tin Works is a Pennsylvania-based company that prides itself in being the last company left that makes traditional, stamped tin ceiling panels. They are also the only company in the US that restores original tin ceilings.

Tin ceilings don't show up very frequently in my a part of the sector and when I do see one, it's forever a plastic faux gracing the ceiling in a domestic where a tin ceiling has no vicinity. I do not care how cool you believe you studied it looks, a tin ceiling has no area in a Florida ranch residence. However, a number of the older buildings right here had them back in the day and it's good to recognize that they can have them again need to the want and the impulse stand up.

But in searching over Valley Tin Works' internet site, my Yankee roots started to stir. I cherished going into an antique storefront or home when I was a kid and due to the fact that they nonetheless had tin ceilings. There's not anything pretty like them and I realize from having lived in the Tin Ceiling Belt as a kid, that dealing with them after they want to be repaired may be a man or woman builder.

Tin Ceilings gained popularity within the US in the 1880s as a less-high priced substitute for the exquisitely specified plaster ceilings that have been popular in Europe on the time. At the peak of tin ceiling craze, there have been approximately forty five corporations inside the US that made the stamped tin plates. The despair and world wars sounded a loss of life knell for the tin ceiling. Over time, such tin ceilings as there were both fell apart and had been removed or they was the ultimate do-it-yourself challenge. So from the ashes of history, Valley Tin Works arose in 2004 with a grasp steel smith on the helm.

Valley Tin Works makes traditional tin ceiling styles and makes them available both unpainted or finished with their signature, multi-step, lifetime paint finishes; a handful of which I'm displaying right here. Valley Tin Works would not shrink back from finding new uses for those stamped tin plates both. Their tin panels can be used as kitchen again splashes, as wall cladding or as art.