I thought I would show you some pictures of the project I'm doing in my daughter's room. Things have been progressing slowly...between wrong paint colors, tired arms from all the painting, other things breaking down ( thanx fridge :) ), and planning my niece's wedding...oh ya I got that going on too!
It was pretty easy to put the boards up... that went quick! I used 1x2 on the bottom above the base board molding, then spaced the 1x4 every 14 inches
topping with another 1x4
and then a 1x2 as a chair rail of sorts. Filled in the gaps with caulk, which took some time to get right.
I painted before I put the 1x4 and 1x2 on top, but it was too dark,,,
...VS...Much better! So now I am starting to paint the board and batten white. So far I have not quite half of it done....pictures to come.... and I figured out what to put above it all on the walls...I'm so excited about that and I think my daughter is going to love it!
The boards were 8 ft and I had home depot cut them in half so they are about 4 1/2 feet up the walls. I really like the 1x4s the best for the widths compared to the 1x2s. I didn't use liquid nails to put them on the walls just 2 inch brad nails because I may want to remove them someday, which the liquid nails would ruin the drywall.
This is not very expensive to do and I was surprised. I used:
10 1x4s cut in half ($1.99 for ea full 8 ft)= $19.90
3 1x4s (8ft) for above ($1.99 ea)= $5.97
6 1x2s (8ft) for above base board and chair rail ($0.89 ea)= $5.34
So for about $32.00 a brand new look, not counting paint, which I had to buy 2 different colors! Kicking myself in the butt for that! I should have went with my gut instead of matching something!
So anyhoo.... until the reveal!!
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