Home decor tips can elevate your interior design by making the most of entrances and entryways, ensuring windows are well-dressed, creating a sense of separation in open plan spaces, avoiding overcrowding rooms, using lighting strategically, focusing on hallways, corridors, and stairs, and using the Rule of Three. A decorative platform can be placed in any space, such as living room, dining space, bathroom, or bedroom, and can be made of various materials that match the decor style.
Raised panel feature walls are classic, traditional, and timeless, and can be made using 1×8 and 1×6 boards. Base cap molding creates the raised panel look. To create the illusion of height without making your ceilings higher, you can cheat a little by using 13 features to create the illusion of higher ceilings and help make a smaller space feel more.
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Beautiful job! I would love to fill in the center panels with decorative wallpaper. A simple, geometric art deco motif would complement the dark paint color and make it look really luxurious. I also wanted to comment that I appreciate how nicely you take care of that beard of yours. It’s hard to keep a bushy beard from becoming unruly and you do a great job of it.
beautiful! may I suggest a consideration for future replications? use an 8″ along the bottom as your bottom rail, and ensure 6″ is visible above the base molding. everybody starts from the floor for the bottom rail and it makes the bottom rail look wierd because it doesn’t match the width of the other rails. using 8″ gives you 2″ to nail the base molding to, and 6″ to match your other stiles. the same goes for crown molding. use 8″ for your top rail and leave 6″ exposed and use the remaining 2″ to nail your crown molding to. This feature you designed and made is gorgeous!
Have a wall 10 feet long with a door at one side . A pot belly stove in the middle and a blank wall other side. Thinking to make a panel hinged to hide the door and actually look like the wall Do the same on blank wall hinged with secret shelves in the drywall. Thanks for giving a great idea. Cheers.
The feature wall is stunning. Especially in that blue-grey paint. As a seasoned cabinet maker and remodeler, the only thing I would do differently is provide for consistent reveals beneath the crown molding and above the baseboard, matching the mid-wall divider. The choice of 1″x6″ sticks for the horizontal elements vs. 1″x8″ material for the verticals is subjective, depending upon your own aesthetic. I personally like it for situations like this where it would appear to be too much under the crown molding and above the baseboard. Lastly, for paint applications like this, use MDF. It saves you a ton of time, yields a highly accurate result and remains dimensionally stable. Best of all, it’s available in 10′ lengths. Sketching everything out ahead of time, you could maximize sheet yield, saving money in the process.
I love it! I had drywall finishing. I recently finished my media room in the basement. After I hung the drywall- I filled and sanded the holes and covered the seams with MDF trim in a similar fashion. Looks nice, finished fast and the middle batten also serves to protect the wall from teenagers in chairs.
Glad to see something beside Board & batten. It’s important to note the typical hollow core 6-panel doors that are found in many houses built between 1985 and 2010 will give you all the info you need for designing & mapping out this project. The bottom rail of the door is the baseboard height, the middle rail provides a good chair rail height, and the top casing of the door gives you the height of a shoulder board. The only thing that looks odd about this project is the starkness of the remaining trim in your house. The builder spent no time or money there.
You may want to use a domino or spline of some kind where your 4/4 boards connect. With weather changes even with the joint glued you can still get seam creep as the wood filler will not move with poplar. We do this for a living and most of the time we glue up section then apply them to the wall and this means you have less seams to deal with in the field.
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Looks fantastic. In future would be interesting to find out what paint you use and what you think of spraying vs brush and roll. I use Benjamin Moore Advance for a lot of these types of finishes and find the finish to be unlike any other. Looked like a Behr product in this article…but I guess you’re more focused on the carpentry side of things.
Wow that looks amazing. I could see some of the seams but you guys did a fantastic job. Did you put up some sort of backer board or is that drywall behind? What stops me from doing something like this in my home is builders here do the orange peel texture on walls which I hate. Not sure how something like this would look on top of textured walls. And installing some sort of backer board concerns me because of trying to hide the seams out in the field.
Looks great,though fyi,it’s not even a single raised panel,muh less double. Center section of each style and rail square has to have a center panel(1/2″ to 3/4″) that has some type of cove style shape to its outside hugging the inside of the square or mortise into sides of styles/rails. This is a recessed panel style with decor trim inside styles/rails and a decor trim picture frame accent square inside that. JUST SO YA KNOW!
Nice work done, hope you are happy with the results, it sure looks good. However, looking at the rest of your website, which is about a bunch of different “hacks in life”, for these type of articles, I think most people would appreciate things like choice of material, when you are talking about “boards” and similar.
This is awesome and I’m about to embark on this in my home office. Question for you, did you ultimately end up swapping out the base board? The finish product looks about less than half the size of the initial board that you nailed on in the beginning. Or did you paint half of it white to blend in with the base board?