How To Hang A Wood Board On The Wall

A wood plank wall can add a rustic focal point to a room.

How to hang a wood board on the wall.

The trick to wood plank walls is to keep it simple. Use wood flooring tape. The dark wall color hides those gaps for you. Don t try to hang laminate flooring from a wall covered with wallpaper or wood paneling.

The first step in how to install paneling is to remove all wall plates outlets and any nails in the wall. Ask a friend to help you install the furring strips. Before you install the pallet boards you want to paint the wall they re going on a dark color. You need to drill through the plaster and into the wood framing.

Rebecca and shannon of petite party studio are accomplished diyers and decorators and they love the look of distressed wood. Hold them horizontally across the wall and place a level on top. Most wall framings set studs every 16 inches so you should be okay to measure from there but double check with a pilot hole. The pallet is going to hang from screws protruding from the wall and the weight hangs from the boards that are running parallel to the floor at what is now the top of the pallet.

For a small pegboard two horizontal furring strips should be adequate. For best results set the paneling in the room for a few days before you install it. I had planned to use toggle bolts to attach the 2 x10 x 20 or so on the length to the studs but the studs are in the wall the wrong way for me to drill thru and use the toggle s wing anchor. The hard part in adding distressed planks to a wall is preparing the wood cutting and painting all the planks to get a uniform look.

This will allow it to adjust to the humidity in a room. In the kitchen you might front face an island with barn wood or perhaps diy a barn board backsplash. Step 5 line the pallet up with the studs in the wall as best you can. Use reclaimed barn boards on only one feature wall in a room to keep the look simple yet make a statement.

Pallets are not perfect and no matter how hard you try there will be a gap or two here and there. For this tape to work the wall must be perfectly flat with variations no greater than 3 16 inches no peeling paint and no crumbling drywall. Gently remove any crown moulding baseboards and trim you plan on using again. Adjust until it is level and then ask a friend to hold the strip while you drill long wood screws through the furring strips and into the studs or wall anchors.

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