Custom...cheap and nice

I like to get creative and one of my ideas was for custom ceiling medallions. I wanted to dress up the kitchen ceiling. I liked the look of old tin ceilings.
I took a scrap piece of old paneling that had been used as a wainscot in the kitchen. I cut it to size and cleaned it.
Then I covered it with Allen and Roth embossed paintable vinyl wallpaper. Once it dried, I painted it with antique copper spray paint and hung it up with common screws which I painted to hide them. It cost me about $6.00 in materials and really looks nice.
I did the same thing in the adjoining butlers pantry/morning room, which I did an octagon shape for that one.
It was cheap, easy and made a nice custom touch.