broken bits of old CD's as tiles....

[berniedicters]

Quite. I remember a miserable weekend in Dorset scraping off Artex in my friend's bathroom.

Haha, its horrible stuff, isn't it? I think the accepted wisdom is that it's virtually impossible to do. In fact, I think Polycell now sell a product especially for covering up Artex, presumably making your ceiling half an inch lower in the process.

This place is all Artexed ceilings, but they're quite high so you don't really notice them.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

A bar I know used old vinyl records to that what you are proposing. It looks pretty good in the girl's bog.

 

[panpete]

I like it.

How much space were you planning on covering?

I think a whole room done out like that would be a bit much, but part of a wall would look good.

It depens on how many old cd's i can accumulate, tbh

I think you would need a couple of humdred at least.

 

[Crispy]

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Sorry, I think that looks awful You'll have real problems getting the tesselation working - especially forming another horizontal line at the top. The colours are all blotchy and the edges are rough.

Maybe you could get a cleaner look by breaking the CDs up into rectangular pieces. You could set up a jig and use a hot blade (on a hinge like a guillotine if poss) to melt through in strips. You'd get a nice smooth edge, and your tesselation problems would be over.

 

[panpete]

I don't think it looks very good a bit like not very imaginative 1970s restaurant decor that was ripped out with great difficulty to paint the walls in red and black and with Athena posters during the 1980s which in turn was redecorated five or six time during the 1990s and 2000s.

Your repeating interior design mistakes of the distant past.

i will always like refracted light, i have loved it all my life

 

[panpete]

Just remember, a long time ago, quite a lot of people thought Artex, stone cladding, or hessian wallpaper were good home decorating ideas...

my idea has taste, and style.
Mosaics never went out of fashion

 

[panpete]

when I have the wall grouted, and the cds cut it'll look a treat.
think of all those lovely rainbow reflections on the wall.

 

[spanglechick]

Sorry, I think that looks awful You'll have real problems getting the tesselation working - especially forming another horizontal line at the top. The colours are all blotchy and the edges are rough.

Maybe you could get a cleaner look by breaking the CDs up into rectangular pieces. You could set up a jig and use a hot blade (on a hinge like a guillotine if poss) to melt through in strips. You'd get a nice smooth edge, and your tesselation problems would be over.

mmm - while i concede the wobbly edges, i think the appeal of the look is in the irregular shapes and colours. I had imagined it being all uniformly shiny and silver, and i didn't like the idea at all, but actually, i quite like that.

honestly, crispy, you'd have been at Gaudi to use nice neat rectangles...!

 

[spanglechick]

what does concern me, btw - is grouting tiles which aren't very proud from the wall. not that i've done it, but it strikes me it might be a bit tricky.

 

[Crispy]

Gaudi's broken tiles work because they're naturally varied. The CD thing looks like it was supposed to be even, but turned out wrong
And yes, grounting such shallow tiles could be tricky. I think pressing the pieces into a bed of something else might be a better idea. Esp. if you pre-make it on a piece of board