Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. As Americans, we can feel patriotic when considering tin ceilings. It’s one of the few decorative elements found in the Victorian Age ...

In the late 1970s, Barbara Schiller and her husband bought a decaying brownstone in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, then in its early stages of gentrification. The house was structurally ...

A HUNDRED years ago, tin ceilings were the way to go for two reasons: The fire-proof plates provided a quick fix for cracking plaster, plus they were very, very cheap. These days, it’s charm, not ...

Houses are packed with clues about their history. From floor to ceiling, if you look closely at the details, they may reveal when the house was built and how people lived in the space over time.

Editor's note: The following is one of a series of columns from the Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization. Ceilings in Butte must compete with cornices for the record for the greatest ...

New York’s mot beloved architectural innovation might be among its most overlooked: the humble tin ceiling. Today, people view the geometrically embossed covering with rosy nostalgia. But tin ceilings ...

Embossed tin ceilings, created to mimic the grand plaster ceilings of Europe, offer an ever-changing play of light and shadow not possible with a flat painted ceiling. They originated in the mid-19th ...

Exposing the tin ceiling in the kitchen was also a labour of love. The result is a multicoloured tin ceiling due to all the beautiful colours of oxidized metal,” added Markham. The home is steps to ...

So you’ve banished the popcorn ceiling texture from your home. Overhead is a deliciously blank canvas of drywall. What next? Design sites show a huge range of ceiling options, from traditional beams ...

A home in Williamsburg with a bathroom that saw its original tin-panelled ceiling restored and intricate 19th-century plasterwork set within a modern apartment feature in this lookbook, which ...