Board and Batten Accent Wall

I love a good before and after shot, so here is the wall that we will be transforming. I apologize for the pictures, this bathroom is so narrow it’s hard to get a good shot of the full wall, but you can get an idea of just how dark and dull this space is.

This first thing you want to do is determine how tall you want your board and batten accent wall to be. We knew we wanted to hang a towel rack above the board and batten so we allowed room for that. Once you determine how tall you want it measure the distance from wall to wall and cut your board to size. We are using 1/2” x 2 1/2” primed mdf boards for this project. Use a level to make sure the board is straight and nail it to the wall using a nail gun.

Next it’s time to nail on the vertical boards. We like using a board at each end of the wall to give a nicer finished look at the corners. Once the two end boards are installed measure the distance in between them. Divide that measurement by the number of boards you want to install and then take that number and mark out those measurements on the horizontal board. We installed four vertical boards so we marked out four measurements using a pencil.

Since we live in an older home and not everything is perfectly square we took the time to measure the length of each vertical board separately. Once we had our pieces cut we made a small pencil mark on the center of each board and lined it up to the marks we made on the horizontal board. Then we made sure the board was level and we nailed it in.

To tie the vertical boards into the baseboard we cut the bottom of the board on a 45 degree angle. Once all the seams are caulked this method makes everything look seamless and like it was always meant to be there.

At this point the hardest part of the whole instal is over! The next step is to fill in all of the nail holes and seal all the gaps and seams with paintable caulking.

Once the caulking was dry. I gave the whole thing a few coats of fresh white paint in a semi gloss finish. The rest of the bathroom was also painted in Benjamin Moore Titanium.

And here is the after of our board and batten accent wall! I absolutely love how this bathroom is turning out and it already feels so much brighter and bigger in here! I hope you will keep your eye out for the full reveal next month!