We are now nine years into this house as of last month. In our main bedroom, there is a vaulted ceiling, but one of the delightfully odd features of the ceiling was a cut out for a television. It was angled perfectly for a standard box tube television like you would find in the last century. For the modern flat television, this was entirely impractical, not unlike the telephone line jack right next to the toilet I had removed long ago. Since we already plan to have a drywall artisan out to repair our kitchen ceiling, I went ahead and framed and patched over this hole so that it could just disappear.
Unfortunately, the hole was 26" x 26", so getting a scrap piece of 2x2’ drywall was insufficient, so I had to get two pieces of 2x4’ scrap drywall.
The total project cost was $16
- 8’ framing 2x4" stud = 2 x $4 = $8
- 2x4’ Scrap Drywall = 2 x $4 = $8