Wall treatments install#

Wainscotting is any wall covering that extends only part way up the wall. With a little creativity and a good design concept, you can cover walls with just about any material you can think of. So, for some of these coverings, consider installing them on a single accent wall rather than all four walls. But a word of advice: the more unusual and complex the wall covering, the more restraint you need when using them. Some are so highly textured and detailed that covering your entire house with them (or even an entire room) will produce visual overload. And that's a fine choice as well because wallpaper is a great way to introduce pattern and texture into wall surfaces.īut what if you're interested in wall covering ideas besides the obvious? Read further for some inventive ways to cover a wall. And if not paint, then wallpaper is the covering of choice in most other walls. And there's nothing wrong with that since you can't go wrong with a nice coat of good-quality interior paint. Most walls in the home get the usual covering treatment: interior paint in a flat, eggshell, or semi-gloss sheen. The Spruce Home Improvement Review Board.THEN that will determine the height for the other three walls (I’m continuing just the bottom two squares around the room). Right now, I’m just waiting on that decision, then I can go ahead and cut the horizontal sections for that wall. I shared a story/poll on my Instagram this morning – so we’ll see what the consensus is! If you scroll up, you’ll notice that I didn’t plan for that on my layout… but I think I might include it. OH! And I realized that in my mockup that I shared last week, I show a top row along the ceiling for my battens. (I did it myself, I just have 3 little children and didn’t want to run the compressor and nail gun when they could run around willy nilly).

Wall treatments install#

Then I measured and cut the rest of the vertical pieces and waited for the Husband to come home so I could install them. Notice in the photo above how the one piece of batten goes all the way to the floor? That’s what I’ll use to install my door hinges, and we’ll put a different baseboard in the closet section. The final piece of baseboard could also be added. From there, I measured the dimensions again, because they differed a bit because of that. We took down the sliding closet doors (and will be building our own), so that was the first board that had to go up. You can always watch it on YouTube here.įor this room, I knew that I would need to install my vertical sections first. (The video, embedded above, shows the design steps in more detail). I check retailer/manufacturer websites to get the actual dimensions of products and add them to my plans. Once I figure out what type of wall treatment I want, I start to browse online to see what options are available. I measure the floors and walls, create a to-scale drawing (usually on the computer), and include all the fixtures/things that are stuck. Luckily, the layout dictates the perfect location to place our bed, and I figured I would create a fun square board and batten feature on that wall! Planning Our Wall TreatmentĮssentially, I go through the same process when I’m designing wainscoting or any type of wall feature ( including paint). Our bedroom is a simple 10×12 shape with a side closet and single window. I think I forgot to share the floorplan of the room last week with the mockup. Everything else in that room is also waiting for us to finish this room (aka the bed, rug and mirror). Thankfully the floors are just painted concrete, so cleanup is pretty easy. Right now, we’re cutting all our boards in the basement. We don’t have a garage at our new house (the plan was to build one this summer, but we’ll see what happens with COVID). (Which we didn’t pick up until yesterday). Turns out, the pieces I wanted were discontinued, and I had to order something else. I was hoping to get further along with our wall treatments, but realized early last week that my material didn’t come in! I ordered it way back in March, then things started closing (and the ORC was pushed back) so I didn’t worry about it. The photo below will probably look similar to where we were at the end of last week. I use Adobe Illustrator, but you can always work it out on paper if you follow this video. Anyways, today I have a video with the step-by-step details of how I came up with the wall treatment for our room.