Hello blog. I've been wanting to make a cool post about something we did a while back after Christmas
I wanted something with copious amounts of squares that can be easily assembled.
Ceiling tile grid seemed to fit the bill.
So, we basically raided the ceiling grid section of Home depot.
We built 5 "modules" that we can easily hang once we got the grid assembled. Three 10'wide by 12' tall modules and two 4' wide by 10' tall modules.
The vertical pieces are 12' sections of grid. Snapped between the 12' sections are 2' crossbars.
To give the unit some rigidity, we used sections of the right angle wall channel on the top and bottoms with small self tapping screws.
Once the units were assembled, we hung them on rigid pipe with aircraft cables silver side out.
Once hung, we filled random squares "crystal" Mio drop in tiles with double sided tape. The Mio tiles come in packs of 24 for $100, they look great. To fill more squares, we cut up some plexiglass we had lying around and sprayed it with frost in a can. Natural coroplast would look great too. To hold the tiles and plexi onto the grid, we used double sided tape.
We then lit them with 1k cycs and wrote cues to toss our movers in the set to give us a variety of different looks.
The set had some great texture to it, the plexiglass, Mio tiles, and silver grid accepted the light differently.
The icing on the cake was us keeping our Christmas Lights up after December. We would glow the lights at 20% with the scenic lights and on occasion, crank the Christmas lights to full with no front scenery lights.
The whole set cost $400 and looks pretty cool.
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I wanted something with copious amounts of squares that can be easily assembled.
Ceiling tile grid seemed to fit the bill.
So, we basically raided the ceiling grid section of Home depot.
We built 5 "modules" that we can easily hang once we got the grid assembled. Three 10'wide by 12' tall modules and two 4' wide by 10' tall modules.
The vertical pieces are 12' sections of grid. Snapped between the 12' sections are 2' crossbars.
To give the unit some rigidity, we used sections of the right angle wall channel on the top and bottoms with small self tapping screws.
Once the units were assembled, we hung them on rigid pipe with aircraft cables silver side out.
Once hung, we filled random squares "crystal" Mio drop in tiles with double sided tape. The Mio tiles come in packs of 24 for $100, they look great. To fill more squares, we cut up some plexiglass we had lying around and sprayed it with frost in a can. Natural coroplast would look great too. To hold the tiles and plexi onto the grid, we used double sided tape.
We then lit them with 1k cycs and wrote cues to toss our movers in the set to give us a variety of different looks.
The set had some great texture to it, the plexiglass, Mio tiles, and silver grid accepted the light differently.
The icing on the cake was us keeping our Christmas Lights up after December. We would glow the lights at 20% with the scenic lights and on occasion, crank the Christmas lights to full with no front scenery lights.
The whole set cost $400 and looks pretty cool.
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