Yes I DO have windows!
You can see my messy workspace. That’s going to be redone as well! Somehow I have to make this room more ‘warm and inviting’ – something that is difficult as I really have no where to hang posters because the walls are surrounded with sound absorbers. The ceilings are VERY high (15 feet) so hanging stuff from them is impossible as well.
Any suggestions???
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Ah, I am relieved to see that. Hehe, your pictures in your previous posts were taken from an angle that coincidentally did not show the windows at all. Great.
As for decor – have you ever thought about creating little pennant chains? They would easily fit above the sound absorbers (or even across them without you having to damage the sound absorbers). You can probably buy those pennants cheaply at Dollar Tree or Michaels – or you make them yourself with a bit of string and some colourful paper.
That sounds cute.
At the old transitional school, I had cut outs of musical instruments and records hanging from the ceiling. And I had a TON of wallspace and I painted it yellow and had posters hanging up everywhere. I had a portion of wall by my desk where I hung the Crucible poster I have, plus all the drawers my kids of done for me… and their pictures. I can’t use tape on these walls – at least not this year. Maybe next year. I have two posters up that are hung with painters tape.
Do you have access to large pieces of cardboard? Something you could make stand (or lean) against the wall on it’s own? You could cover it with construction paper or large brightly colored paper and use it as a sort of bulletin board to tape your students drawings on.
I didn’t think you had windows in your room either, so I’m glad Guylty asked the question!
Not sure if these options would be suitable for your room, but in some of my classrooms a cheap open net was suspended from the ceiling (tied off at secure points) from which I could hang things. Also, is it possible to use BluTack (a plasticine-like adhesive that rolls off the surface without damage when you’ve finished with it) or something similar on the sound absorbing tiles?
I have some of that blue adhesive – in fact, I’m using it on the ‘I can’ statement in the back of the room. it’s lumpy and doesn’t stick well.
My problem with hanging from the ceiling is my room is 15 feet high. Trying to get a ladder that high and a spotter… I’ve hung stuff from the ceiling before. A net would be wonderful, especially, a fisherman’s net, because we are The Anchors. (The original school name was named after a Navy Captain, so we have a big anchor outside and a ship’s helm inside. The decor is all naval!)
What about using old fishnet stockings? You could cut off the feet and top, cut up the middle of each leg and you have a small fishing net?
Remember, I live on the coast! I can buy real fake fisherman’s netting for cheap. Heckers, if I wanted, I could probably buy crabbing paraphernalia at the Dollar Store…
I should mention that I forget you live on a coast.
I have, (like most dudes) short term memory, 😊
I have a memory like a steel watchamacallit!
We had a school handyman who did the kind of jobs that required a long ladder, but I have to admit, a 15ft high ceiling does make things difficult. 🙁 Are the soundproofing tiles hard or soft? Because they extend from the walls as far as I can see, maybe you could hang netting from the tops of them with small nails or pins. Can you beg a couple of unused easels from the art room to hang posters on for the time being?Other than that, I’m stumped for ideas!
The sound buffers are made of a sturdy cardboardish type of material. I wouldn’t really want to attach anything to them – at least not for another year or so. (New building, lots of company coming in to look)
I don’t know. I’m thinking when I get the room arranged like I really want it and get my piano lab set up (18 pianos, 9 tables to put them on) and a Choir Corner, the room won’t look so empty and sterile. Maybe curtains or some such.
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suggestions for decorating anyone?
Do you have a stepladder to reach the ceiling? If not, how about a tall man (preferably with dark hair and tight jeans) to reach the ceiling for you?
You could use fishing string and straight pins (depending on the thickness of the posters you want to hang) to hang them from the ceiling. I’ve put the pins in the ceiling tiles at a horizontal angle.
If your posters are too thin, maybe laminating them if your school has a lamination machine, or use those hole stickers one can use on 3-hole notebook paper to reinforce the paper? Position reinforcements where you want on the posters, (recommend at least one or two inches from edges and because our climate here is so dry, I tape them down too) then use a hole punch to put the hole where you want on the poster. Use the fishing line to string the poster up and around the the drop-ceiling, then tie the fishing line in a knot through each hole on the poster.
Posters hung back to back (glue them back to back) so you can see from both sides.
It could work.
Remember. I have 15 foot ceilings. I have 2 stepladders – a short 2 stepper at work and a tad taller 3 stepper at home. They still aren’t tall enough. NO where near.
I suppose I could ask to borrow a tall ladder when we return to school. I’m pretty sure we have one.
Or… get a tall dude with dark hair and tight jeans 👖
I’d loan you mine, but he mostly wears shorts commando (or a new phrase I learned Monday night at Pub Quiz, “regimental”) style. 😛
I was going to suggest lots of pics of RA playing various musical instruments?
But now I want that for new kitchen…
Regimental, like that 🙂