Cheap DIY Batten Wall Utilizing Lattice Strips

Tutorial: How you can use lattice strips as a simple, cheap various to put in a DIY batten wall for including classic character to plain partitions.

Lattice strips are the MVP of this DIY batten wall mission!

I imply they are surely the unsung hero of numerous little DIYs and crafts round right here. (Do not forget that bathe curtain artwork we framed with lattice strips some time again?) This time it wanted a highlight within the breakfast nook.

Since we form of have an dependancy to intricate wall molding round right here, it’s completely no shock in any respect that after we completed putting in and portray our Fb Market banquette discover within the breakfast nook, Robert and I checked out one another and mentioned, “One thing’s lacking.”

These easy partitions wanted character! And lattice might do the job inexpensively. As a result of molding is one in all my favourite methods to make a home look luxurious.

What’s Lattice?

Lattice is manufactured from skinny strips of wooden mostly utilized in a criss-cross construction for trellises to help climbing vegetation in gardens or to function porch skirting.

But it surely’s excellent for easy wall molding tasks too. (Sort of like Sharpie shiplap however far more legit.)

The worth of molding has skyrocketed recently (together with each different residence enchancment provide), so we found out a approach so as to add expensive trying batten wall molding for the fraction of the worth utilizing useful dandy lattice strips at $1.28 per linear foot.

In case you’ve by no means put in any kind of molding earlier than, it’s the right newbie model to strive because it requires no miter cuts and lattice can sit flush proper on prime of your present baseboards since they’re thinner than common 1×2 boards.

How you can Make a Batten Wall Utilizing Lattice Strips

You would add this vertical batten wall throughout the room, as wainscoting, or simply as a board and batten accent wall. You would depart your partitions plain with none wall decor for a minimalist strategy or layer it with artwork for much more character.

It might be excellent for including onto a plain kitchen island too. Bear in mind although, you probably have a textured wall, the method gained’t be as easy, since you will want so as to add these MDF panels to your textured partitions utilizing Liquid Nails and brad nails first.

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Steps to Make a Batten Lattice Wall

Step 1 – Measure and Determine on a Format

Measure your complete wall first, resolve how far aside you need your batten (vertical lattice strips) to be, and mark their placement on the wall with a pencil.

Do not forget that lattice strips are 1 1/2″ vast, so issue that into your format plan. We set our battens to have an 8 1/2″ hole between.

Step 2 – Lower Lattice Size

Measure the peak of your wall from baseboard to crown and reduce the primary lattice strip to the wanted size with a jigsaw. (Not all partitions might be completely the identical top all the best way throughout, so don’t reduce your whole lattice primarily based on that first measurement.)

Step 3 – Use a Stage to Test Lattice Placement

“Dry match” the primary lattice strip and use a stage to ensure it’s completely straight.

Step 4 – Nail Lattice

When you’re pleased with the lattice strip placement, nail it to the wall with the brad nailer (or a hammer).

You should use building adhesive right here as properly, when you select, however as a result of the lattice is so light-weight, it’s utterly non-compulsory. (The batten wall may also be simpler to take away with out adhesive later if sooner or later you modify your thoughts.)

Step 5 – Repeat

Repeat Steps 2-4 till you’ve positioned all lattice strips alongside the wall.

Step 6 – Caulk Cracks and Wooden Fill Nail Holes

Caulk all the edges of the lattice strips to fill all the cracks, and fill all the nail holes with wooden filler.

Step 7 – Sand Wooden Filler

As soon as the wooden filler is absolutely dry, sand easy with positive grit sandpaper (we use an orbital sander to make the method go sooner). Brush away any sanding mud after.

Step 8 – Paint

Give all the pieces a contemporary coat of paint and also you’re carried out! (We painted the wall first with the identical colour we deliberate to make use of on the lattice strips in order that we wouldn’t must work round all the particulars afterwards.)

The Completed Batten Wall

Don’t you assume these two batten partitions add a lot to this little breakfast nook nook? I adore it a lot!

We added these classic model sconces to deliver extra gentle into this windowless area. What do you assume?!

They work so properly with this linear chandelier that provides a contact of contemporary, and the brass pops towards that batten wall we painted Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

Wrapping Up Breakfast Nook Particulars

I nonetheless plan to color the air vent and add knobs to the banquette cupboard doorways.

(Now that it’s dry, I’ve to confess, don’t love the paint I had to make use of on the banquette thanks to produce chain points inflicting my favourite cupboard paints to be bought out. However oh properly. If that’s our largest problem, I’ll take it.)

I simply acquired the decision this week that the newly reupholstered cushions are completed! So it’ll all be coming collectively in right here quickly.

These DIY herringbone LVP flooring nonetheless look completely superb since we put in them a couple of weeks in the past! Subsequent on the checklist is constructing a desk, refinishing some secondhand eating chairs for the opposite aspect, and including some classic artwork and decor finds.

Will probably be so charming as we wrap up the ultimate particulars.

Have you ever ever carried out a DIY batten wall earlier than? Or discovered a brand new use for lattice strips? They’re the very best for thus many issues!

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