It looks great! I love your curtains and the wooden ceiling. Your stencils turned out very well. Wanna come do my laundry room now? :>

Wow, you've come a long way and it looks great! The stencil border looks pretty classy and fits in perfectly (I'm not usually a fan of stencils). Fun curtains, too!

Very cool!

Kim, that's one classy stencil, good job.

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That looks fantastic!! Well thought out and beautifully done, and what a difference the molding under the stencil makes. Just great.

I really like it!!

Looks great, Kim. I love the warmth of the wood ceiling. I used a pine ceiling in my kitchen and I really like it. A couple of questions. What do you have on your floor? And -- did you put the wood right on top of the stucco ceiling or did you rip down the existing ceiling first? The reason I'm asking is that I have a seventies-style popcorn ceiling in my living room that was damaged by a leaky roof. So I need to do something about it. I've thought about t-and-g pine because I like it in the kitchen. but I'm wondering if I can just put it over the existing ceiling. Also, I have a hardwood floor in my livingroom, so I worry it would be too much wood.

Thanks!

Thank you all for your compliments! I've never used a stencil before, and it is a little tricky--the paint has to be fairly thick and drier, and you have to make sure the stencil is pushed tight against the surface or the paint oozes underneath and it looks blurry.

diymadness: "...A couple of questions. What do you have on your floor? And -- did you put the wood right on top of the stucco ceiling or did you rip down the existing ceiling first? The reason I'm asking is that I have a seventies-style popcorn ceiling in my living room that was damaged by a leaky roof. So I need to do something about it. I've thought about t-and-g pine because I like it in the kitchen. but I'm wondering if I can just put it over the existing ceiling. Also, I have a hardwood floor in my livingroom, so I worry it would be too much wood..."

Well, heh-heh, we haven't touched the floor yet other than to remove several layers of old flooring right after we moved in. It is concrete now and looks HORRIBLE!!!! That's the next big job in there, and we're hoping to tile it but due to the fact that it's a hallway that developed *between* the original portion of the house and the 1926 addition when remodeling occurred, it has a very strong, strange slope from the back of the hall to the front and we'll have to deal with leveling it out first. The kitchen and front room floors are even with the laundry hall floor, but on the other side of the hall my office floor is up a small step about 2 or 3 inches! So if we level the laundry floor, it will be higher than the kitchen and den, but lower or even with my office!! What to do-?
At any rate, about the ceiling: we had to completely demo the stucco ceiling, even though I really like stucco and wanted to salvage it if I could. But it was simply too damaged, and it is thick and HEAVY! It likely would have been far too much weight/thickness to put the pine T & G over the old stucco, and absolutely rock hard, so attaching the pine would have been a bear. We essentially rebuilt the hall ceiling substructure to strengthen it, and then put the T & G over that. Incidentally, we had to raise the ceiling a few inches in the front half of the hall back to its original height--hence the stenciled area and the moulding. They mask the transition where we added a strip of new drywall to increase the wall/ceiling height.
In your case I'd want to know if your ceiling leaks had compromised any of the ceiling joists and other structural elements. There is also the weight issue: can the ceiling support the weight of T & G pine? If so, then I see no reason why you couldn't put it over the popcorn, provided the popcorn texture isn't so heavy that it would create an uneven surface and interfere with fitting the T & G boards tightly together.

Nice improvement!

Thanks, chelone! And the best part is the reclaimed pine was free--it was stored in the attic, and there's a lot more of it up there we haven't brought down. It's likely reclaimed from some of the historic buildings that were torn down in this city. The former owner was a bit of pack rat and salvager, and we benefited from his tendencies.