I kept seeing those ads on Facebook with beautiful mixed wood walls by stickwood which I thought they were stunning, but alas, I don’t have the kind of dough it costs to purchase them. I was determined, though, and I wanted to recreate this look. A simple solution would be to use reclaimed wood. Here’s the thing about that, though. I never have any. It can be hard to find. Lowes had this reclaimed wood wall panels which were on pretty huge sale for the 4th of July and I have got them for really good deal. If stickwood was costing me 2500$ for my wall, I was able to get them for 250$ from lowes when on sale. Pretty cheap right!!
So here is what you need to have in order to get this wall:
- Paneled wood – Got this from lowes, there are a lot of other options in lowes as well and also you can use pallets too
- Circular saw – cutting them into desired pieces.
- Nails and a driller – You need this in case you are using pallets or just plain wood panels.
- I used Annie Sloan old white paint to get them white. This is optional.
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- You can even use some good stains if you want wood based colors. But make sure you use at least three shades of stain difference. Like if you want to use gray walls like the one below, pick a light and dark gray stain and oak stain. And you can do dry brushing and multiple coats to get more shades within.
- Step1: Start by measuring your wall: This is the most important step to determine how many wood panels you would need by square foot. Based on this take the measure the size of the wood panels and calculate how many you would need based on the total square footage.
- Step2: Stain/Paint the wood panels: Like I mentioned earlier, I bought light and dark oak panels from lowes and I wanted to paint white to give the farmhouse look. So I had pained them all with Annie Sloan old white. I did some dry brushing strokes for a few and darker coats for a few to get that shaded look on my wall.
This is how they pretty much looked after they are painted. I love the way they show different shades and slight wood peeping through them.
Make sure you are seeing the wood grains through your panels on whatever method you choose. This adds the real character to your walls.
Step3: Cut quarter of your wood pile into some different sizes. This helps in organizing your wall in different sizes.
Step4: Peel and Stick: This is the fun part where you can just peel the wood panels and stick it to the wall. Always make sure to start from the bottom of the wall and not from the top.
Now if you are using plain wood panels, drill small holes and nail them.
Make sure you are aligning the panels close to each other without any gaps when placing on the wall.
This is how beautiful it will start looking with different sizes.
Tip: As you can see in the picture, we started aligning the precut pieces on the wall where it fits the sizes and left the places where we need precise sizes cut for the later part. This would save some time to finish your wall quickly where you can list down all the missing gaps and cut them all at once.
The wall is all set to embrace.
Hello were the wood panels expensive ? Looks great! What was the total cost ?
Hey thanks Rohini. Luckily we got a deal in Lowes and got for really cheap as they were all in like brown color and been in their store from some time so they gave it for like $250 for all 10 boxes. And then we white painted with annie sloan chalk paint so we got the color we wanted. But usually these are a bit expensive and normally it would cost around $600