50pc of Anet White (20"x20" Foam) Ceiling Tiles - Covers About 135sqft

Also great if you have less interest in investing the work. I have used these many times now and will continue as I renovate old houses. Fantastic product and this particular pattern is one of the more affordable ones available. Looks elegant. My process has become as follows: I paint them with a coat of insl-x stix primer before I install, using a paintbrush and a roller, alternating to get good coverage because the texture is fairly raised. This makes re-priming or painting after install much easier and also greatly decreases translucency of tiles so that adhesive pattern used to adhere is less visible. I use the all purpose Loctite power grab as adhesive and buy it by the bucket so I can apply with a small plastic v-notched trowel. I apply adhesive evenly across all the flat areas of the backside (less visible from the front than untrowled straight-from-tube S-shaped application, esp if you decide not to paint tiles at all). I stick the tile to the ceiling gently, slide into place exactly aligned with previous tiles, then use a clean, dry paint roller to really press it into the ceiling. When I need to cut tiles, I snap my knife every half dozen cuts or so, so that I am using a sharp blade (against a good straight edge). Cut like mat board: use several lighter strokes per cut (instead of muscling through in one swipe of the knife). I have a lot of experience with home repair but I am too small and too old now to install full sheets of drywall on ceilings up a ladder and by myself. This is a lightweight option very easy to apply alone, and looks beautiful. Just takes work. I think it's well worth it. The final step, when I have time, is I caulk the seams between the tiles with alex plus paintable acrylic caulk. If I have time for this step and then re-priming or painting the whole surface, the result is exquisite. If I don't have the time, you can tell these are individual tiles but they still look great and folks with a less discerning eye than mine would possibly not notice the seams or not be bothered by them, and just see the lovely pattern. Unpainted, you cannot really tell they are thin styrofoam if the ceiling is 9' or higher, and you definitely cannot tell if they are primed and loose their translucency and stryofoaminess, at any height. I don't use them on walls or anywhere in reach of touch, as they are thin styrofoam and not intended for touch or accidents in "higher traffic" areas of the house. Things leaned against or falling against walls would dent/damage them and repair would involve stiff mud sculpting and repainting, so... ceilings are the spot! Really highly recommend.

makes , the wall looks so rich looking. Easy to apply.

This stuff is just fantastic. Let me start by saying we live in a 109 year old house and every room in our house has character to it. Unfortunately our kitchen lacked any style thanks to an old drop ceiling that was installed probably 30 years ago. One day I finally got tired of it and just started tearing it down. I knew that there would be some imperfections with the plaster ceiling with the house settling over time, and I was willing to skim coat the ceiling with mud to get it to look better, but then I stumbled across this stuff! Now our ceilings are 9 ft, which alone would look better than what we had before, but with this stuff up we get compliments from anyone who passes through our house. Shipping, while not prime, was within a week for us. Installation was very easy. Honestly anyone with a knife and a ladder could install this without problems. We glued ours up with some locktite adhesive that is good for foamboard and didn't have any bleeding occur. We chose not to paint it or anything, and it still looks great. The price for the quality it unbeatable. Faux tin that can be bought at the big box stores would not have been this cheap, looked this good, or installed as easily. We plan on buying more for our foyer in the future. UPDATE: It has been about a month now and still no issues. Everything has stayed in place just as it was the day we installed it. Still very pleased!

I had planned to wallpaper a bedroom ceiling but could not find a pattern that would co-ordinate with the wallpaper I had put on the walls. And i needed something that would adhere to wallpaper already there as I was not about to remove the old stuff. I looked for a long time at various products and am happy with this choice. They look much nicer in reality than in the product picture. I needed a plain white ceiling and these are perfect - I did not paint them. And I can't understand why other reviewers bothered using glue to put them up. I used doubled sided tape which holds them perfectly. I put a few small pieces on all four sides of the square. And if one should come loose these tiles are as light as a feather - they will not harm any person or thing they might fall on. But so far-- none have fallen. One complaint is that sizing is not exact on all of the tiles and I have had to trim off some edges to get them plumb. This is not a big deal because you can trim these with nail scissors or any kitchen knife - if you don't have an Exacto. I'm going to fill in a few hairline places with caulk eventually. Right now i want them to set and acclimate to the room temperature. My second issue with them is that they are fragile so be very careful handling them. I have long sharp fingernails and if you accidentally stab one it's going to leave an indentation. I am extremely pleased with these and everyone I have shown them to likes them as well. I'm going to redo a bathroom soon and will be using these for both the ceiling and the walls. Highly recommended. The photo shows installation of the first few tiles over the old wallpapered ceiling.

I'd been looking at various "tin ceiling" options -- from real tin, to heavy plastic, and then stumbled across this styrofoam product. I wasn't sure how it would look, so I started out with a small-ish (8 x 8 foot) area over my front door covered entrance. I first spray-painted enough tiles with an almond color latex exterior paint to match my soffit color. (Small tip on this: I taped them down with a loop of masking tape behind each corner, because the air from the spray gun would otherwise blow these really lightweight tiles around.) I glued them up with Locktite Power Grab Express -- about 10-12 little dabs evenly spaced on the high points on the backside of each tile -- and they stuck immediately to the painted plywood ceiling. When done, I filled the edges and seams with some almond color latex caulk. The finished job looks great, if I do say so myself, and it was a simple job. I'm deducting one star for two reasons: 1. I found that the stamping/molding of the styrofoam is a little inconsistent between tiles. Or the trimming of each tile is inconsistent. The pattern can be a quarter-inch shifted from tile to tile. An Xacto knife and straight edge fixes this slight imperfection where found, but I shouldn't have had to do it. 2. When you lay up a bunch of tiles in the usual abutted pattern, it would be nice if those straight diagonal lines in each tile would like up across the ceiling. They don't, quite. They create about a half-inch zig-zag between tiles. I'm just being anal here because the final job looks great (as I said), but I think they'd look even better if those lines would be continuous from one tile to the next. Anyway, I'm so pleased with the results of this small test that I'll now do the same on the 25ft by 12ft ceiling of my Florida Room. Which brings up another small point: 3. It would be nice if the seller offered these in a smaller quantity, e.g. 20 tiles for half the price of the 50-tile box. In that Florida Room, I'm going to need just a few tiles more than two boxes (taking into account what I have left over from my entrance way project).

Easy to work with, and looks good. Just make sure to get tackie glue or something that bonds fast, you'll have to new ceiling in know time

Beautiful tiles. Enhances ceiling appearance

These tiles are so easy to install and we love how they have transformed our living room. I painted each tile before installation, which was easier imo than doing them after they were installed. But the quality is great, they are lightweight and easy to handle. Using the correct adhesive these tiles go up quickly and make a huge difference. We did this install directly over the old popcorn ceiling. Edge cutting is simple too, since the product is so light. Highly recommend to anyone looking to change the look of a room or cover up an ugly old ceiling!