Diy Accent wall

Well here sits one very simple, boring wall.

that needed just a little creative attention..

And here is the accent wall finished!

I cannot stop looking at and smiling at it!

This is called board and batten.

I purchased pre-primed mdf board six of them for the dimensions

across my wall which measures 109'.

 My vertical boards are 2 1/4" wide.  I had seen many accent walls 

mostly made with 4" wide boards which I felt is too wide from the

size of my area. 

As a suggestion, I would buy a few different width to test your design before you begin.   Another thing that I did was using painters tape I taped my design on the wall to see whether I wanted a 3/4" wall or a full wall of squares.   There are so many designs out there that you can create on your wall.

For the top piece I purchased that you see me nailing down in the photo, it is the 3 1/2" mdf board by 3/4"

My vertical boards are 2 1/4" wide.

Once you have your design figured out you can start

to adhere your boards to the wall.

I started with the top board, then centered the first vertical board and added the other four on each side making sure the boards are level with a level tool.

Some people add a board at the bottom to frame out the entire wall but I felt the with my 6' trim at the bottom I didn't need another board there. 

The next step will be to caulk in between each boards for a really

clean finish to the wall.

I personally LOVE to caulk, it's tedious, but really gives you 

a smooth clean line.

Since I purchased primed mdf board, you don't need to prime

your boards, you just paint them!

Coming right along!

Here's another angle of the wall

I love the clean lines and the thickness of the boards

I choose.  Be sure you think about that when deciding your

designs.

And, here it is!

This was truly an easy project, it took my hubs and I a total

of 3 hours with a little of waiting for caulk to dry mostly.

He's so great at the math part of it that he figured out based on the width of the room how much room between each board.

(gotta love those math brains!)

A few more views

We really had this wall on our list to do this fall, but with our

fall like weather we had over the weekend we moved up our plan

and I am so glad we did!

On a side note, I get asked what that thing is in the left corner 

of the room on the wall.

It's our heating/cooling system, somewhat of an eye sore but

what are you gonna do....