How To Diy Beadboard Panel Wall

Use a stud sensor to locate and mark the wall framing.

How to diy beadboard panel wall.

Familiarize yourself with the separate parts that make up beadboard wainscoting. Line up your first beadboad panel to the wall starting from one corner of the wall. We grabbed a piece of wall trim from the hardware store it has a little notch on the back perfect for resting on top of the beadboard to ensure it s level and used that along the top of the beadboard. We only needed to use one panel and a half.

And the cost is extremely affordable. If you are reusing the baseboard carefully pry it from the wall. Assuming your cuts are accurate start on one side of your room and attach the sheet of beadboard to the wall with construction adhesive on the back in a squiggly shape and then with lots of nails. Compared to board and batten this assumption is correct.

So if you want to add architectural interest but for whatever reason don t want to measure much then beadboard is a great introduction to the diy world of wall paneling. After your beadboard is installed throughout the room you re ready to trim it out. Hanging beadboard is a snap once you know these tried and true techniques. In a conventionally framed room with wall studs 16 on center each 4x8 ft.

Also use a level to make sure the panel is level. We used 1 4 thick scrap plywood pieces to help do this. One panel was 22 at the home depot. Panels or vertical boards baseboards and top cap moulding which provides an elegant finish to the top of the panel.

Watch how to install beadboard paneling from diy. You don t want the beadboard to be resting on the floor so raise it up a little bit off the floor. Plan the installation to start at a left side corner and work outward across the wall to the right. Panel should end and begin on a stud.