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It may have taken us way longer than expected (we started the project back in December last year!) but we&#;ve finally finished panelling our guest bedroom &#; and we love it!
It adds interest, texture and a luxurious feel to any room and we think it suits the style of our apartment which is, let&#;s face it, way more grand than we are!
Installing panelling is a really easy DIY project and we learned a lot from the last panelling project in our house in Manchester where we added panelling to the wall along the side of our staircase.
Planning the panelling for the staircase was easy but planning panelled walls for a whole room is a bit more involved. Don&#;t worry though, it&#;s still not difficult and we&#;re sharing the exact steps we took. (Just ignore the semi-stripped doorframe!)
Warning: We go into as much detail as possible to help you if you&#;re thinking of planning & installing panelling. There are lots of before, progress and most importantly lots of after pictures if you just want to skip straight through to those though!
Tape measure
Pencil
Paper
Ruler
Timber moulding strips
alternatively
No Nails
alternatively
fine saw & mitre box
This is the most important bit of this project and it&#;s also the most time-consuming part. It may seem like a lot of faffing to prepare such detailed plans and drawings but once you&#;ve perfected the planning nothing else can go wrong! It&#;ll also save lots of time in the long run!
You want to measure every length, opening, bulge and recess. Also make a note of any fixture and fittings like sockets, light fittings or built-in furniture that can&#;t (or shouldn&#;t) be moved.
You don&#;t need any fancy software to do this just the measurement you took, a ruler and pen and paper are perfectly fine.
Once you&#;ve got your drawing you&#;re ready to start planning!
Get yourself some sketch paper (any thin paper that you can see though is more than enough &#; even baking paper will do!) and lay it over your drawing.
Your drawing doesn&#;t have to be perfect at this point it&#;s more about getting an idea of what could work and what your options are. As you can see, I also moved the furniture around in the drawing to line up with the panelling.
Are all walls equal sizes? Do you have any specific features that need to be taken into consideration? Do you already have a look for the panelling in mind?
Start by drawing lines that represent the width of each of your panelling panels. Basically, you&#;re dividing your walls into sections. Literally, just draw lines along the walls of your room and try to find a pattern that works for you.
Can you find a common width? How wide is the door? How wide is the smallest wall &#; could that be the panel size?
Adjust the width of the panels.
Adjust the width of the space between the panels.
The sections don&#;t have to be the same size &#; you could use two or even three different panel widths. We&#;d recommend using no more than two or three different sizes to keep a coordinated feeling.
Do you have any art that you want to be able to hang within a panelled section? Make sure the sections are big enough!
Try as many options as possible and even if you think you&#;ve already found the perfect solution, try and find a few more. You&#;d be surprised at how many more options you can find! Sometimes the ones you struggle to find are the best ones!
Note: Our drawings are more precise than they have to be for the purpose of showing you the steps. I&#;m sure no one could have made any sense of my scribbles otherwise!
When you&#;ve decided on a design that works for you it&#;s time to get specific. Draw out the design in detail and to scale on the drawing of your room. When you&#;ve drawn in all panels it&#;s time to start thinking three dimensional.
Don&#;t worry, it sounds way more complicated than it is! Imagine that you&#;re folding down the walls of your room. You already have your floor plan so all you have to do is project the edges of the room upwards. Don&#;t forget to mark the positions of your windows and doors, too!
You should end up with something looking like this.
Now that you&#;ve prepared your floor plan and drawn your elevations it&#;s time to add the panelling. You&#;ve already drawn the lines for your panelling on the floor plan so it&#;s just a matter of projecting the panels up onto the elevation (the same as you did with the walls).
Now you can really start to see how the panelling will look in your room and you can start to think about how you may want to divide the panels further.
Do you want a dado rail or a picture rail? How high will your panels be? What gap is there between the skirting, will you have panels over doors and windows? And most importantly &#; how does it look? Do you like the scheme so far? Do the panel sizes look in proportion? Would any adjustments make it look better? Don&#;t forget to take the width of the timber moulding into consideration, too!
Make sure you&#;re really happy with the design before moving on to the next step. Remember, working out where the panels go is much easier and quicker on paper!
Don&#;t forget to take the positions of sockets and switches into consideration! You don&#;t want to end up with a socket in the middle of a panel! Don&#;t assume they are at the same height!
Take all of the walls of your room into consideration. It&#;ll feel more harmonious if the panelling on the opposite walls mirrors each other.
Planning is the most important step of the whole process. Actually attaching the panelling is really easy as long as you&#;ve done your prep work.
Having worked out the design for the panelling it&#;s time to transfer it to your walls. With all of the planning you did in step one, this should be fairly easy.
Work your way around the room with your tape measure and pencil and make a mark where every vertical line/panel piece will be. Then make marks where every horizontal line/panel piece will be.
In our case, we&#;re installing a dado rail with a small panel beneath it and a larger one above it.
Your walls should now be covered with loads of little dots representing where you&#;ll be attaching your panels. To make life as easy as possible, we used our new laser level to project the lines onto the wall.
With our lines projected onto the walls, it was then just a matter of working our way around the room with a lot of masking tape and marking where the panels will be.
It was so quick and saved a lot of messing with a spirit level! Best of all you can project a line all the way around the room (both horizontally and vertically) which means that it&#;s ideal to get the panels on opposite walls to align perfectly with one another.
When it comes to actually attaching the panelling it&#;ll make life much easier if you don&#;t have to install it directly on the masking tape so it&#;s important to decide if you&#;re taping within the measured lines or outside of the lines. This way you can install the panelling next to the masking tape.
If you&#;re panelling a large room we&#;d totally recommend using a laser level like ours but a normal spirit level will work fine, too.
As weird as it may sound, installing the panelling is the easiest part of this project!
Double-check your measurements (more than once!) before cutting. It&#;s advice I give here all of the time but we&#;ve still made so many mistakes over the years! Measure twice, cut once!
You can cut the panels by hand with a fine saw and mitre box (which is what we did when we fitted the panels along the wall of our staircase) but I would really recommend using a mitre saw.
It may look like a scary tool but I honestly can&#;t believe we ever did any DIY without it and it&#;s easily one of our most used tools! Ours is an entry-level version that really wasn&#;t expensive.
Give any edges that are rough a quick sand with some sandpaper (around 120 grit). The cleaner the cuts and edges are the easier it&#;ll be to attach the timber to the wall and achieve a professional finish.
If you have to join any pieces of panelling in length don&#;t just push two ends together. Cut both at a 45° angle so that they slot together. This way the join will be invisible when you&#;ve painted it.
Tip: We&#;d recommend buying your panelling at timber merchants and not a DIY store. We found the quality to be better but more importantly, the pieces of timber tend to be much straighter which makes installing them much, much easier!
This is the step you&#;ve been waiting for.
We used No Nails to attach the panelling along our staircase wall but with so many panels to attach it&#;s not something I&#;d recommend for a larger project.
This time we used our nail gun to attach the panels (which is still our favourite tool ever!). Nail guns are really expensive and although we love ours we wouldn&#;t recommend buying one for just one project (although you&#;d be surprised how often you end up using it).
Luckily you can easily hire nail guns if you don&#;t want to splurge on one of your own.
Attaching the panelling to the wall is the easiest and quickest part of this project. Hold the panel in position (depending on how you&#;ve planned either inside or outside of the masking tape edge) and nail it to the wall.
If you&#;re installing a dado rail, we&#;d recommend starting with it. It&#;ll be your main horizontal line and you can use it as a guide to making sure that every other panel you nail is parallel to it.
Because you taped the panelling pattern to the wall with masking tape you don&#;t need to do any measuring or even check if it&#;s level as you already did that in the previous step!
Ideally, you&#;ll have someone to help with this step as it&#;s so much easier if you have someone to hold the piece of panel while you nail it to the wall. Just remember to take the position of any cables or pipes into consideration before you start to nail into the walls!
We used No-Nails a couple of times where we thought there might be a cable (and still managed to nail into one &#; whoops!).
When you&#;ve finished attaching all panels remove the masking tape and you&#;re done!
This step is a bit time-consuming but it&#;s vital to achieve a flawless and professional finish. You have to caulk every edge and join.
Caulk is your friend!
It&#;ll hide any imperfections, it&#;ll join the panels to the wall and it&#;ll make everything look tidy and clean!
To apply the caulk hold the caulk gun at an angle to the edge and squeeze a thin strip of caulk into the gap. Then dip your finger into some water and smooth the caulk pushing it into the edge.
You can sand caulk when it&#;s dry but it&#;s a complete pain. It&#;s also much quicker to take your time getting the caulk right while it&#;s still wet.
All that&#;s left to do is stand back and admire your new panelling!
We recommend waiting at least 24 hours for the caulk to dry before starting to paint the room.
Planning and installing panelling may seem super involved but actually, it&#;s not complicated or difficult at all. Really it&#;s just 4 steps (that we&#;ve gone into a lot of detail explaining) and most of the prep work can be done from the comfort of your sofa! Just take your time and make sure to plan and tape everything as precisely as possible.
I love how our new panelling turned out! It&#;s really given the room such an elegant feel.
If you have to join two pieces of timber to create a longer piece of panelling, cut both ends at an angle to join them. It&#;s a more secure connection and the join will be much less visible.
Get your calculations right. We calculated the amount of panelling we needed 4 times and we still managed to miscalculate because we missed an entire wall. Both of us. Twice.
When cutting multiple pieces that are the same size, cut yourself a template piece that you can use to check the size of all other pieces you cut. Making sure that all pieces are exactly the same size will make installing the panelling much easier!
Don&#;t forget to take the position of sockets and switches into consideration! You don&#;t want to end up with something like this!
Although we were really careful we nailed into a cable! Needless, to say it wasn&#;t our finest DIY moment. Use glue if you&#;re even remotely unsure of the position of cables.
Caulk is what makes the panelling perfect! Don&#;t even be tempted to skip this step!
When applying caulk, wet your finger. It&#;ll make smoothing it much easier and cleaner.
Yes! Planning the layout of your panelling takes time but installing it is easy and fairly quick, especially if you&#;re using a nailer to attach it. It&#;s something even a novice DIYer can easily accomplish. If you&#;re in an old house it&#;s likely that nothing will be straight. This can make installing panelling a bit more difficult as it can look wonky, even if it&#;s perfectly level and straight.
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How do you attach wood panelling to a wall?For this type of panelling, you can use a nailer or some strong adhesive to attach panelling to your walls. We&#;d recommend using a nailer as it makes installing the panelling quicker and easier, especially if you have uneven walls. This is the nailer we used to attach our panelling. We love it and highly recommend it.
Strong adhesive works well, too it&#;ll just take a bit longer to panel your room as you&#;ll have to wait for the adhesive to dry. The best adhesive for panelling is this glue that we used to attach our pictures rails and panelling in areas where we couldn&#;t nail.
We&#;d recommend either using glue or a nail gun to attach the panelling. Screws have fairly large heads and would be difficult to countersink. You&#;d end up with fairly large holes to fill which would be more difficult to hide, too,
How much does wall panelling cost?The more panels you use the more expensive the project will be. The cost, especially if you panel all of the way up the wall quickly adds up. Make sure you know what you&#;re letting yourself in for! We spent about 400&#; on this room.
As you can see, the room is so close to being finished! We still need to add curtains, I&#;d like a rug under the bed and there are the all-important finishing touches to add but we&#;re almost there now!
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Woody Walls peel and stick wood panels are a fast, convenient way to add style and flair to any space. With a variety of colors and textures to choose from, you can transform any wall into an eye-catching statement piece in less than a day. Are you considering adding peel and stick wood panels to your home or office space but still have questions?
Here are the answers to the more frequently asked questions about our peel and stick wood panels.
No glue or nails needed. Each board comes with self-adhesive tape.
WoodyWalls Planks are made from real wood materials, the use of dry cloth should be the primary method of cleaning. Do not use any abrasive cleaners, polishes, wax or oil-based products on your wall.
WoodyWalls panels will stick until you decide to remodel again. The adhesive is rated for 10 years.
Woody Walls peel and stick panels utilize semi-permanent self-adhesive tape for their application. If you choose to remove Woody Walls panels, you will need to pry them from the wall. Once the planks are detached, the adhesive will need to be removed from the work surface, and some minor repairs may need to be made. To reduce damage, we recommend installing plywood on the wall before your Woody Walls installation. This way, you won&#;t have to repair your entire wall after removal, only the areas where the holes were drilled.
At Woody Walls, we pride ourselves on providing quality products at an affordable price designed to fit any budget. All our 100% real wood peel and stick panels - no matter the variety - are reasonably priced at $7.64 per square foot, with each box of peel and stick paneling costing just $149. In addition to our budget-friendly price, all our products ship free to anywhere in the US and Canada, helping keep your project cost down so you can do more with your budget.
Our peel and stick panels are designed to make the remodeling process quick and simple for any skill level. With no power tools or extra adhesives required for a standard application, DIY wood paneling has never been easier. Each panel comes with self-adhesive tape that makes installation as simple as peeling and sticking, making our wood wall panels suitable for DIY projects and commercial installations alike. Each panel is expertly milled for the perfect fit!Before application, we have a few recommendations:* Give your panels time to acclimate to the space where they will be installed, at least 48 hours.* It is important to ensure the application surface is dry and completely clean of dust and debris before you start to ensure proper adhesion.* Inspect your panels for any warping.* Do a dry run with your panels by laying them out in the order you would like them installed beforehand, so you never have to hunt for the right plank.* Have fun and let your creativity flow.For more resources and information on installation check out our product page , and our how-to videos
Designed with longevity and durability in mind, Woody Walls peel and stick panels will stay up until you decide it&#;s time to try something new. With proper care, the adhesive is rated to last for ten years, giving long-lasting beauty to your design.
With style designed to last at a price that is easy on any budget, Woody Walls peel and stick wood panels are the perfect addition to any home or office space update.
Definitely, We recommend you add extra adhesion to the back of the stick on wood planks, a few drops of liquid nails should do the trick.
Each box contains 12 peel and stick wood planks measuring 46.45" height x 5.04" in width and 0.18&#; in thickness, depending on how many boxes you order we may ship single boxes in one large box.
WoodyWalls Peel and stick wall panels are made of North American Pine wood.
Our peel and stick wood planks have high quality 3M tape strips on the back of each wood wall panel, ready for you to simply peel and stick!
Yes, our peel and stick wood planks may be sealed, however, there is a slight chance the shade of color will change. If you plan to seal the wood wall panels, we strongly advise you try it on a sample first to see if the color works for you, prior to installation.
We suggest cutting the wood wall panels that will be on the edge at a 45 degree angle, they will come together like a puzzle.
Each peel and stick wood plank is about 4/16&#; thick and comes in a variety of finishes.
Depending on each project, we suggest calculating the square footage of the area you plan to transform with peel and stick wood, by multiplying the height and width of the area (in inches) Then divide the sum by 144. We recommend ordering an extra 5% for trimming..
We do not recommend our peel and stick planks to be used as tabletops, since they are thin wood planks they might not hold much weight on them which would break them over time.
Yes, our peel and stick wood can be applied over tile. It is important to be sure the application surface is flat, completely dry and clear of dust/debris to ensure proper adhesion. Please avoid areas such as shower walls/saunas where wood wall panels could be directly exposed to moisture.
Yes, peel and stick planks may be used over popcorn ceilings, however, we recommend adding extra adhesive (liquid nails or construction glue) to the back of the wood panelling for extra security.
Peel and stick wall panels are strictly designed to reside indoors.
Yes, you can definitely remove our peel and stick wood. However, depending on your wall, it might take off paint or drywall because the 3M adhesive is very strong.
If you plan to remove the peel and stick wall panels, our recommendation prior to installation is to first install plywood to the surface you want to cover, then apply our peel and stick wood planks on the plywood. This way, instead of having to repair the entire wall once you remove it, you'd only have to fix the areas where the holes were nailed.
We only recommend doing this if your wall is a lighter shade than your peel and stick wood planks, we suggest painting the wall a color that is very similar to the wood wall paneling you order.
No, our peel and stick wood is not to be used as flooring, as the peel and stick wood planks are too thin, they would not be able to hold a lot of weight.
Yes, the most effective way to cut Woody Walls peel and stick wood is by simply using a miter saw. You can also use a utility knife, jigsaw or a fine toothed hand saw. Just make sure the blades are sharp enough to get a clean cut.
Yes, you may use our peel and stick wood as ceiling planks, however, we suggest securing them with 18 gauge brad nails or construction adhesive.
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