We can’t thank you enough for all your love on the reveal of our girls’ room yesterday. It was so much work, but it was wonderful to see so many of you enjoyed following along and the end result as much as we loved sharing it. Today, we wanted to share all the details about how we updated the wall in our living room! Finally!
Our long time readers know we have this wall in our living room that has stumped us for 3 years now. I wrote that we were done ignoring it and cropping it out of pictures way back in March and then it took a few (okay, several) more months to actually decide what to do and do it. It has odd angles surrounding it, and is too close to the seating area to have something substantial like a credenza on it–we tried.But! It’s the perfect candidate for an accent wall complete with a wall treatment. We explored everything from attaching laminate flooring, to wallpapering, but found the biggest bang for our buck to be adding faux shiplap. The project can be done in a weekend for under $75–including paint!
We’re sharing the full tutorial, materials list, paint details and budget breakdown on the Homes.com blog today! Click here to check it out!
PS. Artwork is 60×44 print from here  and the picture light is from here. We hard-wired it in place, but it also comes as a plug-in option.Â
Hi. I love this shiplap wall. We want to do something similar in our living room but the accent wall we want to use has a window. Do you have any advice for installing shiplap around a window with crown molding? Would you suggest getting the planks as close as possible to the molding and using plaster to even out the gap, or trying to cut the planks a certain way to fit around it?
You might want to remove the molding first?
Question: We are doing a black shiplap accent wall almost just like this. I noticed you painted the baseboards black as well as the shiplap, which we were planning on doing also. However, we are shiplapping around a window. Should we paint the window trim black to match? I feel it would look awkward to have white trim surrounded by black. Thoughts?
So re-reading this post brought up an issue I’m dealing with…how did you paint the vent cover and outlet? Did you use a small paintbrush or did you use a sprayer? When we first moved into our house and had it painted, they didn’t paint the vent covers the same color as the walls and it drives me insane! Now, we are going to repaint and I want to match the vent covers so they don’t stick out so much. Thanks guys!
I just used a brush. It took a few light coats.
Hi!
I was hoping you could help! I absolutely adore the colour of this shiplap! and your old living room! I want to paint the lowers in my new kitchen this colour! Unfortunately, the Sherwin-Williams here in Canada (or where I am at least!) don’t have the Kwal colour data base! Would you be able to suggest a close match in Sherwin-Williams, Ben Moore, Berh..etc?
Thank you so much!
Raccoon Fur is pretty close
Thank you so much for getting back to me! I really appreciate it!
How long is this wall? I really want to do this for one of our walls, but I don’t know how much plywood I will need!
Ten feet long