I have a slight Fixer Upper obsession. Grateful for a husband that goes along with all my crazy house projects. We knocked out a 3/4 wall and full closet, did a full faux shiplap wall, got brand new carpet and paint throughout, and made and hung some floating pine shelves. This is my new favorite place to be!
I've been wanting to try a shiplap wall for a LONG time. Waiting and saving money for these projects takes way too long. I looked at this website to help with the shiplap. We used about 3 sheets of underlayment plywood, ripped into 6 inch strips. Home Depot was nice enough to cut the strips for us, although the guy cutting it was not thrilled when I said 6in strips haha. Jeff then cut the strips into 6, 4, and 2 ft lengths to stagger the boards up the wall. We grabbed the nail gun and went to town! I used nickels as spacers above, below and in between the boards. We actually had a lot of fun working on this together, and had it done in one night!
I used this website as a reference for the floating shelves. They have full plans laid out, with everything you need. EASY! The only thing I changed on the shopping list, was instead of the 2x2 boards for the bracket, which cost $19 each, I made Jeff get 3x2 ones that were only about $3 each. It ended up working out, but it was really dificult to attach to the wall, and caused some major stress come time to drill them into the wall. Sorry Jeff! I go a little crazy trying to save money. We used a nail gun for the box part, and stained the shelves using 2 coats of Minwax Special Walnut.
Paint color: Valspar Smoke Oyester
Shelf stain: Minwax Special Walnut (wiped on with a rag, two coats)
Before:
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| A FULL year ago when we started this project....knocking down the wall |
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| Supervisor Ellie |
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Fast forward one year to the Shiplap Wall:
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| Look at that cute helper! |
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| So close! |
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| Boston hard at work helping with the wall ;) |
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| Ready for paint.. |
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| Yay! Not thrilled about the breaker box :( |
Floating Shelves:
After!
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