Chandelier

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to help my Dad instal a tin ceiling, in his bedroom. He has always wanted a tin ceiling, but this one serves a practical example, too. The ceiling in his bedroom had clearly suffered from many plumbing disasters, over the past century or so, making it very uneven. This unevenness proved to be a great challenge, when affixing the steel plates, as did the discovery that the ceiling was now made mostly of patches, with nothing for the nails to grip. The greatest challenge, however, was simply the shape of my dad's room. It has seven, loosely defined sides, but not a single straight wall — not even a straight section. The floor-plan would look like a freehand sketch of a baseball diamond. Anyway, by some sort of miracle, we finished the job in two days, with not a single tile to spare (and some cut in two).
I commemorated the occasion with a picture from my phone, which, although atmospheric, was technically flawed (above). The nice thing about my phone is that is has a wide angle lens, where my DSLR doesn't. So the below picture, while better executed, doesn't show nearly as much of the ceiling as I would like. I still like it enough to post it here, though. It was shot December 24, 2013.

The original image