The boardroom’s ceiling needed to conceal a variety of structural beams and ducting. We opted for a t-bar ceiling and for good measure we bent it to match our curved beams. Each had to be seismically tied to the structural ceiling above, as did each pot light and fixture. The finished ceiling looks great (although it was challenging to achieve) and the result was well worth the effort.
MultiCam Boardroom - Part 10
We often sing the praises of HDU, but a material like 30 lbs. Precision Board HDU has plenty of compression strength, it doesn’t have very much structural strength. Our submarine door white board needed a handle and we knew that it would get used on regularly. So we cut some 5/8" steel rod and welded up a 'T' shape to hide inside an HDU handle. Using a die grinder, we hollowed out the inside of each half of the handle.
After a quick test fit we used Coastal Enterprises one part urethane glue PB Bond 240 we glued the steel inside the HDU handle.
Once the glue was dry we used the die grinder once more to clean up the edges and also add a little 'wear' to the piece. This was an old submarine after all.
Back on site we drilled a hole in the centre of the door and glued in the handle.
MultiCam Boardroom - Part 9
Once the last of the texturing primer is finished we are ready to start painting colour in earnest. The walls are a blended blue — Becke, our resident colourist, worked her magic and suggested a pearlized colour scheme that will start with a light blue on the ceiling and get darker as it works its way down the walls. We will highlight the halls with indirect blue LED lighting just below the large pipes, creating an almost magical underwater feel.
However, before we started to the walls the first step was to give the large pipes the rust treatment. We painted them with a special paint that has metal in it and will actually rust. In the picture below, Becke is looking for the first hints of rust to form — just after we sprayed on a mild acid. The pipes looked ominously dark but by the next day they had formed a wonderful rust patina.
The shot below shows the freshly rusted pipes making look like they had been around a long, long time — just as we intended.
Next we laid down a baby blue base colour on the walls before moving on the the wainscotting. First we painted a coat of pearl over the blue base and once it had dried we started in on the first of two colours of glaze — a darker metal flake blue. This first glaze was followed with a custom colour we call “Plum Crazy” to showcase the texture to its greatest advantage.
