| Title: | Home_work |
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| Created: | Tue Nov 05 1991 |
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I'm looking for suggestions on how to hang plants from the ceiling
of our living room. I am hesitate to drill holes in the ceiling
or the walls for hooks because I don't want to repair the holes,
especially in the ceiling. The ceiling is stucco type texture.
We live in a new townhouse so I'm not to keen on drilling holes
in the ceiling. I've thought about the floor to ceiling springey
type plant holders and also putting up some 3x3 or 2x2 onto the
ceiling (nice oak) to simulte a moulding, but that's all I've
been able to come up with. Anybody have real inovative ideas?
Ed
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| 933.1 | Holes are no big deal | POLAR::MACDONALD | Sat Oct 21 1989 09:08 | 16 | |
Sounds like you want the best of both worlds; there are only two
ways of suspending plant from the ceiling that I can think of - either
support from the ceiling or an adjacent wall, or install a very tall
floor stand. If you don't want a floor-stand, there is nothing you can
put on the surface of the ceiling that will hold 5-10 pounds or more
(don't forget the weight of the water); if perchance you find something
in the adhesive family that will hold this weight, I think the plaster
will let go before the adhesive and the adhesive itself could leave a
mess more noticeable than a hole.
Don't be afraid of small holes, if you can find a joist in the right
location you can screw-in a plant hanger with a max hole of 1/8" or
otherwise a butterfly bolt that would make a 3/8" hole. The smaller
hole will not be noticed and the larger can be very quickly filled in
about 5 minutes. Bite the bullet and go for it. If you put up a piece
of wood, you will have to make holes in the ceiling to anchor the wood.
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| 933.2 | TOOK::SWIST | Jim Swist LKG2-2/T2 DTN 226-7102 | Mon Oct 23 1989 09:40 | 2 | |
Absolutely. Make the holes. A five minute spackle job will close
them up. No will will no there was ever a hole there.
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| 933.3 | Goferit | IAMOK::DELUCO | Jim DeLuco, Corp VTX Program | Tue Oct 24 1989 13:52 | 4 |
I agree with the last two and will add that having a stucco ceiling
finish is actually going to work in your favor if/when you decide to
cover the holes. It would be much more difficult to hide them on a
smooth ceiling.
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