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Here's some pictures from a couple installs.  I installed the tiles using ceiling-link.  They came out great and appear to be real wood once in place.  I also used the tiles on the underneath of the my soffits, using casing for the face trim.

Appreciate the followup and I'm pleased to report that the installation of the Better Than Tin ceilings was very straightforward and the end product looks GREAT!!! At first look, the new Better Than Tin ceiling is almost too nice to be in a bedroom, it looks that good. A great product, easy to install (we did all the work ourselves), and we like how it compliments the other Victorian features around the house.    Definitely worth the price.  Again, the before and after is like night and day - - - and it now sets that area in the hallway off as a "room" of its own. The "nail-up" installation was just as straightforward as the drop ceiling, no problems at all. Ordering and delivery were flawless, great job. Needless to say we are very pleased with the Better Than Tin ceilings. They've helped take our "new Victorian" up another notch - - - and we are now considering them for a couple additional rooms. 

I love the tiles. When we finish sanding and I get all the dust off the tiles I'll mail a picture. These photos are of our master bedroom.

I absolutely love your ceiling tiles. I have used them once before, and decided to do so again. In this lower level application, because of your tiles, I was able to not lower the ceiling as would normally be the case with traditional tiles.Your tiles are so easy to trim and cut for fitting around air vents, etc.  And also for positioning recessed lighting. The other thing that is great about your product is.... In several cases I had to bend them to position them around air ducts, plumbing and wiring.  The material is so great, that it allowed me to flex them, and when they are in position they pop right back into flat without showing any deformity of the materials! You would never know that they had been bent. I will never use standard ceiling tiles again.

The grid went in pretty easily, and the Ceilume panels were a snap!  Very easy to trim to fit.  Also, we had some duct work that was just above the level of the grid, and the flexibility of the Ceilume panels was great, because I could bend the panels a little bit to squeeze them up into the grid without requiring any clearance at all.  As soon as they were above the grid, they snapped back into shape, and you can't tell at all that the ducts are right above them.  We still haven't decided whether we are going to leave the grid white, or paint it to match the latte panels.

The "period correct" appeal that your ceiling tile adds to the building is a huge improvement.  Both my contractor and general contractor were very impressed with your product.

We went with the Ceiling Link grid system.  I know this is not your product, but I thought I'd just share that next time I would go with one that locks together.  If I accidentally pushed too hard on the tile I was putting in, the whole row would shift, and I'd have to go back to the beginning and reset them all.  Not a huge problem, but annoying when it did happen.

As far as your product....

The tiles were sooo easy to paint. I loved them.  I ended up not antiquing the Stratford ones like I had planned to do because the antiqued ones seemed too dark, and looked dirty once they were up.  So, I painted the Stratford ceiling tiles a Crème Brulee cream color (one coat).  These went in the bulk of the basement... den, office, library, hallway, storage room, and bathroom. The trim in these rooms was also painted that color, and they look great together.  Rather than use the edge pieces of the grid, the top trim pieces actually hold the tiles up along the edges.

The Orb pattern is in our boys' bedroom.  I painted those the same light blue that is on the upper third of their walls (2 coats).  They look great!

As far as installation.  It was even easier than I expected to cut the holes out for vents and lights.  The material is very easy to work with.  The only issue I had was with the Orb pattern.  The problem may have been caused by us making the grid pieces fit a little too tightly in places.  If a tile was pushed up in a corner out of the grid, I could get a grip on the Stratford tile to pull it back down into place, but the Orb pattern had nothing to grip, so I had to pop the tile beside it out and push it back down, then hope that the one I popped out fell back into place easily.  This was not a huge problem, but it did happen often. Again, this may have been due to the grid system we chose not locking into place, allowing the tiles to get pinched tighter than they needed to be.

So, overall, we were very pleased with the Ceilume tiles.  They were easy to work with, took paint very well, and were easy to put up. They look really great, and we're looking forward to their easy care for many years.

Our project turned out just fine and your ceiling tiles look great. I have one picture that shows it, not too well, but it does show it in a different application than usual... our guest room.

The installation went great. The room looks 100% better without those old ratty acoustical tiles.

I put them in our bedroom and walk-in closet. We love our ceiling and anyone who has seen it remarks how original and different it is. I installed it myself and it was a snap.