I've always had a thing for tin ceiling panels likely from looking up in the restaurants of New York City imaging how old the panels must be. Often they are covered in coat after coat of paint but occasionally they gleam with rich patina. I found my tin ceiling panels at an architectural salvage store on Mission just east of the L.A. river called Silverfox Salvage. Of course they are originally from upstate NY so they have delightful finds that one just doesn't find easily in Los Angeles.
They were originally coated in several coats of lead paint. Gasp. So I attacked them with stripper, a heat gun and steel wool pads. First off: do not use heat gun on the stripper! I did the stripper first with the steel wool. Once I got what I could off I attacked the remainder with the heat gun. That seemed to be disastrous since the tin became extremely hot. DOH! But what was great about the heat gun was the patina it gave the tin. It ended up looking like it was ripped from a Victorian apartment.
I put old photos I've found at flea markets and photo booth photos that just never seem right in a frame. Using clothes pins I can even clip flowers and objects to the edges.
These two sconces have plagued me. I love the bronze tone and the scroll work but they never seem to go with my living room. They strike me as a bit to feminine for the public spaces of the house. Well why not embrace the femininity of it all and use them to hang and organize my necklaces?
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