I didn't caulk That looks SO awesome!! Kathryn May 28, at PM. I originally was going to make the faux shiplap a different color than the walls but decided against it. When I was done I gave it Do It Yourself Wood Plank Wall Cell a very light sanding this stuff is already smooth to the touch and then taped off my walls and ceiling:. I used two, one for each end of the board I was attaching to the wall.

I'm curious about a couple of things. Did your panels happen to line up perfectly spaced between your ceiling and baseboard, or was there some math trick invovled? Are they paintable? Thanks for sharing! Love your new kitchen progress too! DANG girl! This looks amazing! Still really love the shelf.

And the wreath? Where did you find that little gem? For a removable option, I wonder if you could nail planks onto a piece of plywood and then nail the whole thing to the wall…you could do it in sections, then it could be taken down when you move and you could take it with you. Just a thought. I love it and want to do this in my master bath. I'm almost convinced I can pull it off. Did you have to paint each plank with a brush?

How did you keep paint out of the seams of the planks? I'm getting up enough courage to do this and I want to make sure I get it right. Love it! Thanks for the inspiration. SO excited for your tutorial. The hubs and I are just about to embark on doing this to our 2 story fireplace wall! Your kitchen is looking awesome! We actually just used a non textured roller for the planks and then if any paint got in the cracks, we used a putty knife to get it out.

It went pretty fast though, because the non-textured roller doesn't hold gobs of paint that seep everywhere. Hi Ashley, By some tiny miracle, our boards worked out perfectly, down to the last one, but if it were me and I had a smaller board to fit in, I would want it at the bottom, instead of the top.

We didn't worry about any math at all. The covers were from Lowe's. Love love this! I've been wanting to do a wall too, but my hubby is pretty difficult to get on board with me doing house projects. PS, what did you do with your OLD dining room chandy? I've been wanting a similar one for my dining room, and I live in SL County, so didn't know if you listed it on KSL or used it elsewhere in your cutie house.

Lovin this! Did you nail the planks into the studs? Or just the drywall? Been wanting to do this treatment on my ceiling, but my "ceiling studs" run the wrong way for the direction I want to do the planks. I absolutely love the planked walls.

I wanted to do this in my living room, but between the beadboard and the wainscoting I've got to draw the line somewhere! Maybe in the next house…. It looks amazing and I'm obsessed with that wreath! Love it great job.

I even liked it without the paint and just the natural wood for a more rustic look. I have even seen a planked wall painted different colors and stains that was awesome.

I'll try to find that link and post it. Here it is. Different style more funky fresh. But I really liked it when I saw it. Wanted to do this in a house we were thinking of buying awhile back. Lucky lady to have Cason assist you!

I love it, I wish I could do something like it I my house … Maybe some day. Just wondering what you did with your old chandelier? I would also like to know the thickness!

We are planning on doing this but We cant seem to price it out for as cheap as you were able to do it!! Yes I would also like to know how thick it was!! We are planning on doing this but cant seem to budget it out for such a good price!! That is a great idea, the horizontal lines and you could paint the ceiling pale blue seem like sky. I like the horizontal idea also and you could paint the ceiling a pale blue to seem like sky.

OMG Shelley, I want your planked walls! Such a big difference. I'm scanning our house for a wall to do as I type, while hubby slinks away and hopes I'll find something else to occupy my time.

Love it. I'm so pinning you. Shazzam Shelley! Love this look so much and I spy a fancy new chandy, looking oh so chic! Excellent tutorial my friend. Lovely … I never would have thought of using plywood cut into strips. That is brilliant. Now I will do it to my boys' room …. I absolutely love it! This looks amazing and I fell in love with Saush'a kitchen so much a few weeks back that I told my Hubby we needed to plank something in our house…. Thanks for sharing all your hard work with us.

I love the way that planking can turn any ordinary space and make it look so much more custom. Your walls look amazing, you have motivated me!

LOVE this, Shelley! I love the nickel idea, and your step by step is SO helpful! Excited about the inexpensive plank option! So happy to see you kept your double shelves on the wall, I always look forward to seeing how you decorate them:.

I tried to do this in my bedroom after I saw the parade of homes house you did, but I feel like the boards were way to thick. I wish I would have seen this post first because this is much more of the look I was going for. So lets say you wanted to rip all that planking out, hypothetically, is there any way to do it with out destroying your walls? What color paint did you use? Also, our ceilings are a light beige color and the area I want to do this is open to the rest of our our house.

Do you think I could do a wall like this white and not have it look weird with the beige ceilings painting the ceilings in the kitchen would mean painting the ceilings throughout the rest of the house …. Hi — I'm trying to pin this, but Pinterest is telling me it's spam!

LOVE your work! Very insperational. I want to do this on a long wall, what are your thoughts on when there have to be seams? Any thoughts or ideas are greatly appriciated! Looking forward to your next project!

We just finished our planked wall!!!!!!!!! Love how it turned out! Thanks so much for your tutorial! Thank you so much for your planked wall tutorial!!! It was exactly the inspiration that we needed.

We didn't end up doing a wood planked wall yet but we do plan on it in the near future. Instead we applied your tutorial to our ugly basement ceiling. It made a world of difference!

You can check it out our ceiling here: keephomesimple. I really love this look. We did something very similar in my son's room. I've been thinking about doing your version in the laundry room.

Thanks for sharing your tutorial. I like your wreath in the last pic! Do you mind sharing where you purchased it? Since you didn't paint the planks before you put them on the wall, can you see the unfinished edges? Or is it a small enough gap that you can't tell? I LOVE this look and am going to do it in our nursery.

Great job! I love your blog. We are the cheap removalists Melbourne trusts! I love this tutorial and used your link and photo when talking about our future home. Maybe I will get to use it. I will definitely tell dad to read this one. Can't wait for my room to look like this. In the middle of planking our wall using your tutorial…. Could you tell me the gauge of the nails you used?

In the middle of planking our walls using your tutorial. Our nail gun shot the nails through the boards and deep into the wall and they are somewhere deep in the drywall, I'm sure never to be found again, haha ….

Could you tell me what gauge your nails are? Hi, this post was so long ago so hopefully you're still replying to comments:- What would you recommend if we wanted to do this to a longer hallway type wall that is larger then 8ft wide?

I'm dying for more info on the new light! I LOVE it! Please tell me you remember the name…. This look amazing! I am using this as a guide for adding a wood planked wall in my daughters bedroom.

And although the wood is very thin, did it make the room seem small at all? My daughter and husband want to do this on their basement walls due to cost of drywall. The walls are studded out and insulated and covered with visqueen poly sheeting. Do you think we would have issues with warping due to no drywall? Any suggestions would help! I love this and did a similar project in my dining room.

Now I want to plank another larger room but I'm torn on how to arrange the planks on the walls that are longer than 8ft. For example, I have one wall that is 9. What do you suggest and did you have any walls that were longer than 8feet? Thanks in advance.

Close Top Banner. My Amazon Store. You Might Also Like Master Bathroom Wood Planked Walls. Painting our Wood Planked Walls, White. That being said, once we started making changes in our kitchen , we knew that this wood planked wall project was going to be part of it too. With any of our products we ask that the panels are spread around the room in which they will be installed at least 24 hours before hand.

This allows them to acclimate to the humidity level and become balanced with their new environment. Next, we recommend using adhesive, not nails to install. Adhesive will give a little as the panels expand and contract. This leads to the final tip. You gapped your planks side to side, this is very good, but you should have also gapped them end to end to allow for the expansion.

Fill this gap with a good quality paintable caulk just like you did with joint compound. The caulk will give a little and allow expansion and contraction while the joint compound is too rigid. Now when you paint it will look like one solid plank. These three simple steps will insure you do not have panels popping of the wall in the future. Great advise, thanks!! It is wonderful that we can learn together and help each other in our DIY adventures!

I love hearing from you and learning your tips, the are very helpful to me! I recommend reading all the comments below for extra tips and advice! I went through the same thing I learned my lesson and will never use hardboard again!

But it looks great! I love the look of planked walls! I'm glad I found this in case I ever do one. Now I know better than to use hardboard even if it's cheaper! I think we are planking a half wall in our ever ongoing bathroom remodel that still isn't done. I hope ours goes smooth. Thanks for the tips. Thanks for sharing at the party and see you again soon. Theresa DearCreatives. I was a Mindy in 8th grade!

Love that name. You are so handy. I am too chicken, and feeble to ever attempt something like this. You did a fabo job. You must have been so discouraged to see that all coming off! I remember years and years ago wallpapering a kitchen and the next morning I got up and most of it was falling off the walls! Maybe if you left the hardboard to sit for a while in the room to acclimate it?

I wouldn't think hardboard was strong enough to actually pop out nails and glue. Ah well, it looks lovely now! Thank you for posting 'the real story," Mindy. I love the way it turned out. One of these days I want to plank some walls and maybe ceilings in our house. I am pinning this to refer to so I don't make a mistake too.

It turned out awesome though! I would love to do this to all my walls in my bedroom. Just need someone as nice as your sister-in-law to help!

Thanks for sharing at the HomeMattersParty. Pinning this my friend! I have so wanted to do this in my house! You did a beautiful job!!!! And thank you for showing us the whole story and what not to do! Amazing Mindi!!! I wish I could fly you out here to help me with this one!

I will let you know how it goes! Nicole xo. You sure are persistent. I'm sorry you learned the hard way. I've never used hardboard for anything I did do a plank wall, and used underlayment.

I used washers as spacers, and the gaps were too large. I didn't caulk I would think that would make the horizontal lines disappear? Your project looks great, and btw they say it only takes 21 days to make or break a habit, so sleeping in the middle of the room should seem "right" by now.

Your wall looks great. Can't wait to see the rest of the room finished. I'm going to do a plank wall in my powder room. I'll be using old leftover picket fencing. Wish me luck.

Live and learn. Mindi, it was great to meet you. Reading this post makes me smile, it's totally something we would do, I'm impressed at your perseverance! It really looks great! Oh, Mindi! First, so sorry you had so many problems with this project!

It can be insanely frustrating; especially when the project should not be that hard. I can relate very much to this right now and I laugh out loud at your ice cream photo! Hey, at least the level was within reach. I have been debating about doing a partial plank wall, but can't seem to make up my mind. Did you use a foam roller to apply the paint? Is your bed going to be up against the plank wall? I like the gray walls on the side. I hope your bedroom is coming along smoothly now and you have no more DIY issues!

Mindi, thank you so much for sharing this! If I ever decide to try this on a wall, this information will be priceless! I'm so sorry it was harder than anticipated, but at least it looks great!

Thanks so much for sharing at Something to Talk About! Great tutorial on installing a Plank wall. I'm sure it will be helpful to many. Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop! I'm glad you stuck with it. So sorry you had so much trouble. I've been there before and it sucks all the fun out of a project.

I've never tried this before! Your project turned out great though!! Thanks for the amazing tips! So glad you linked up with us at the Talented Tuesday party : Lindi www. I absolutely love this! Thanks for sharing it with us. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you tomorrow night at 7 pm. Lou Lou Girls. I know you've wanted to get your bedroom done forever.

It looks amazing but sorry it ended up taking so much time and effort. I love the gray walls too. It looks so good in crisp combination with the white planked wall. I wanna come see it in person. Great end result. Hardboard is pretty rubbish isn't it! We use it here in the uk, mainly as an underlay for vinyl flooring etc. I wonder whether cheap laminate flooring would work for a plank wall?

Or here in the uk we have stuff called MDF Nailing into the wall and not a stud is only holding to the drywall and if the board is not straight it will definitely pop out. Removing the baseboard until the wall is complete aleviates the need for intricate cuts at the bottom. Glad to know I'm not the only "trial and error" DIYer out there. Even though I take the hard way around it comes out pretty good and even when I know of the flaws no one else can see them or perhaps they are too kind to point them out.

No one else can tell a "story" about every scare inch of their house and every project injuries, mistakes, etc. The best part? My Dad is my cohort and helps me with whatever I want to do without question. Now that he's had a few strokes and heart attacks and our projects have slowed- I remember each one more and more fondly.

My house is a piece of me and my Dad. You poor thing! You really had a struggle with that wall! I admire your perseverance Do It Yourself Wood Plank Wall Ideas as well as the fact that you gave us A true, honest post, warts and all. I think the finished wall looks beautiful! I am planning on doing a plank wall in my living room and I learned from you what materials to use and what not to!

I am so glad I read this! You are awesome for sharing your mistakes. Love this!! I have a few questions, 1 if you didn't use the spacers pennies would it not look right? Thank you! If you don't use the spacers you won't have the gaps between the boards, It would not look the same, the boards would be right up against each other.

I suppose it is personal preference. In order to know how much wood to buy, I simply measured the wall and figured out how many 4x8 sheets of plywood I needed to cover it, then bought that amount. I hope that helps! Best of luck to you! Any material does better if it allowed to "cure" in the home a couple of weeks before installation. This looks great and I'm definitely going to give it a shot! Hi, I just found this post and I have done several plank walls in our home using underlayment.

Even with that, there were one or 2 boards that liked to pop off the wall. I just angled the nails, like one angled down and one next to it going up.

Sometimes if the nails are straight in, they will pop out easily. Second, I put one coat of paint on each plank prior to install. With underlayment, the plywood layers can sometimes start to separate. Painting the sides really well prevents this. Your wall looks great!! Dear Mindy, I really enjoyed your adventure into the "scary world of unfamiliar material's".

And I never get tired of hearing and seeing the awesome projects that others take on. Your creativity inspires both my wife Theresa and myself. I do have a few thoughts regarding your hardboard debacle! If I may, i'd like to offer a few tips for "Hardboard Mastery" I don't know if this will be too long for your blog? So if your interested please drop me an email and I can either post or send it to you in pdf format.

I think you'll be surprised by how useful and cooperative hardboard can actually be! Your nightmare of a project turned out great.

There is no such thing as easy. Thanks for the tip. You've inspired me to try this. Great Job: you are way funny with a lot of personality and character You have core strength to be able to deal with the maddening conditions and surprises of projects..

Congratulations on your job and who you are It's gorgeous! I'm jealous, despite the trouble you ran into, because I have plaster walls, and cinder-block on the shared walls - ; ; ;.

Hi Mindy. So I just finished my plank wall I used underlayment I wish I could attach a picture. My question is I'm ready to finished the edges I've already done one coat of paint, and I'm worried the caulk will seep into the nickel spaced gaps I have between each plank? I'm terrified to even start haha. Could you explain more as to how caulking the sides of the wall went.

Thanks so much! I appreciate it. Hi Nicole that is so exciting! When I caulked on the sides I used a small bead of caulk and smoothed it out with my finger. I kept a butter knife handy just in case some caulk went into my slats between planks. If it did, I would just use my butter knife to remove it from the slats. You can count on some going in between the planks, so don't stress!

Just remove it before it dries and you'll be fine! I hope that makes sense, good luck! I followed your tutorial to a t including using underlayment and it turned out wonderfully. To Nicole Caten, I just taped the wall adjacent to my plank wall and ran a bead of caulk down the corner and smoothed it with my finger.

I then took a flathead screwdriver and scraped any excess caulk from the spaces. It worked really well. I too wish I could post a picture! Thanks for the great tutorial! Yay Andrea! I am so glad it turned out for you!! A couple of quick tips It's the cause of many a raised eyebrow when homeowners find 'sawdust' falling into their dishwasher every time they open it up.

But there's a solution for that, too. If you choose to avoid the extra steps, well-- once this stuff swells up like a pig you'll kick yourself and continue to do so while ripping it all out. Another trick to stop Do It Yourself Wood Plank Wall Key warping, nails pulling and the dreaded shrink-swell associated with most wood products used as planks including wide plank flooring installation TIP TIPS is to "kerf" or reverse-cut grooves into each plank.

Run your planks through a table saw back side down with the blade set to under one half the thickness of the material. These grooves on the back of each board will serve as relief cuts, which may very well be what saves your hole job in the long run.. You wouldn't want any of it to warp after all of that work, would you?

Happy homemaking!

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