07/23/2025
This ceiling had seen better days — sagging, cracked, and ready to come down. So we carefully pulled it apart, reinsulated, reinforced it with fresh framing, and gave it new life with clean drywall.
Along the way, we found a little time capsule tucked in the walls: newspaper insulation from 1942, complete with headlines from the thick of WWII.
It’s always a gamble opening up an old house — nothing’s level, nothing’s standard, and you never know what you’ll find. This ceiling had gentle radius corners and shifting planes, so instead of forcing square edges, we floated all the joints with in-situ plaster to match the original character.
We figure if this place made it through the last world war, it might as well be ready for the next one!