Plank Wall Happiness
Today I am over the top excited to finally be able to share my recent plank wall project with all of you!!!!! Like beyond crazy excited!!!!!
I have been stalking plank walls for sometime now. I’m completely in LURVE with these shiplap plank walls in Chip and Joanna Gaines farmhouse and I’ve been wanting to do something similar for quite sometime.
photo courtesy Magnolia Homes
So finding out we’d have the opportunity to do it in our house has been a dream come true.
We ordered 8′ New England White Pine from Lumber Liquidators and then went to our local store to pick it up. Our LL offers delivery but we decided we’d like to pick it up ourselves. The store is full of beautiful flooring to choose from and the staff was great to work with. They know all about installing flooring and if you’re in the market for new floors I can’t recommend them enough.
They were super helpful and when I told them what I was going to be using the lumber for the had great tips and suggestions. They even have various tools available for purchase in the store so it’s a one stop shop.
Here we are loading the lumber into the bed of our truck. OH HAPPY DAY!!!!
Now’s this is the part where I usually tell you about how Prince Charming and I roll up our sleeves and get to work but hold on cause this time things went a little differently. This time I got a little more anxious than usual and while Prince Charming was at a football game I decided my daughter and I would tackle this project ourselves!
Yep you read that right this plank wall was installed by TWO Girls! We had so much fun working together. There’s no better feeling than standing back and seeing all your hard work! Girls rule…boys drool or go to football games, kinda the same thing, right?
I’m not going to go into great detail about installing the planks cause there are tons of how-to’s online. What I will tell you is that you need to start with a level board and then work your way up from the floor. Sidenote-I can apparently get a board level but not a camera!
We installed the plank walls in the recently converted teen hangout/media room of our home. It was very easy to find the studs cause there wasn’t any drywall covering them.
Using my Ryobi brad nailer to adhere the boards to the studs was a breeze. These boards are tongue and groove so they just snapped together like a puzzle. Easy peasy!
We staggered the boards to give them an uneven look…..
and then continued around the room.
Hopefully using these boards will drown out some of the teenager noise from the rest of the house which will be an added bonus.
Either way I’m thrilled with how it looks. And the smell of fresh lumber…….ahhhhh better than any perfume you could give me!
Sorry I can’t show you finished pictures yet. Prince Charming is now working on all the trim and we’re having the ceiling drywalled and then I’m going to do a really fun paint treatment on one wall and some other cool things to the other walls. Stay tune for the reveal in the next month or so to see how it all unfolds!
*Disclosure: Lumber Liquidators was so very generous to give us the lumber to do this project in exchange for my blogging about them and our experience. They did not make me pick a certain product nor did they tell me what to say. We are over the top thrilled with the entire experience and we’ll use Lumber Liquidators for our next project-no doubt about it.
You guys know if I wasn’t happy I would say so and I certianly would not post about or recommend to you
anything I didn’t love. Ok, that’s all. Thanks again Lumber Liquidators!!!!*
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Girls do RULE!! I love this Beth and I can NOT wait to see the finished room. ~Sonya
Thanks friend!!!!!
Wow! Great choice in wood. I love how it gives your home a warm fell wirh texture.
Very inspiring.
Pinned 🙂
Thanks so much Meegan!!!!
Love the room.. I LOVE wood ..how did you finish it..did you seal with clear, light stain..leave as is?? do you have any finished room pics..would love to see it!! Thanks ;0)
Thanks Wanda…it’s still a work in progress. I’m going to do a combination of finishes on it. I’ll post as soon as it’s done.
Thanks,
Beth
I love this store. I have purchased flooring from them before and they have fantastic flooring. The room looks great, Beth
Thanks Vanessa. They have such a wonderful selection. It was fun to just look at all the different finishes. 🙂
Awesome sauce! Can’t wait for drool over your finished walls! #GirlsCanDoAnythingBoysCanButBetter 😉 #SaidTheMotherOfAllDaughters lol
Thanks Therese! I’m so excited I can hardly stand it!
Your room looks wonderful! I can’t wait to see the end result.
Thanks Paula. Me either 🙂
Super job! Love the wood plank look. …oh, and you are so right, girls rule…especially those with tools!
Thanks Wendi!!! We got it done. :0)
You go girl!…both of you! Great job and I can’t wait to see the finished room.
Thanks Leslie!
First of all girls rock!!! This is coming together beautifully! I can’t wait to see it finished!!! ~Christy
Thanks Christy! I’m excited for the progress too. 🙂
Wow Beth, I can’t believe you and Shelby did that all by yourself…..yes I can…you can do anything! You rock. I need to go to Lumber Liquidaters because I need flooring bad!
Kathy the only thing missing was YOU and your fun talented spirit! We’ve got to get together VERY SOON!!!!
Wow! I love that look, too. Can’t wait to see it all painted. And can I be a little jealous? 😉
I totally need new floors… the carpet at the Hines house really needs to be replaced. And, of course, we want wood floors. I’ll have to look into Lumber Liquidators.
Sharon they’re GREAT to work with!!!!!
love the plank walls. i know exactly what you mean about stalking plank walls. i have been doing the same thing. lol i too love the gaines plank walls and everything they do actually. i told my husband and daughter i want to do a plank wall on fire place wall in kitchen and put it on all wall of breakfast/sunroom too. our kitchen has door that opens into the sun room. thought it would tie them together nicely. who knows i might put in another room too. we have a see through fireplace. one side is in kitchen and other is into family room. for 7 yrs since designing and building our house ourselves, we never finished the sun rm and the fireplaces. we have working gas logs, but not the pretty finished rooms like i want. who knows when we will finish but i sure do know what i want after seeing plank walls. lol i can’t wait to see your finished room. i know it will be outstanding. oh, i have a question for you and for anyone too that sees this. what do you think you would do on each side of double sided fire place., the same stone or brick, or slate on both sides or have both different. I thought maybe a stone and huge wood mantle in f rm and aged brick with white wood mantle and surround, or black slate/soapstone with same white surround f place in kitchen. just not sure. the only reason i think i would like different is because i have 2 doorway openings on each side of double sides f place and a huge wall space around fp. its not like some you see where stone wraps around a narrow wall that is width of f place. mine has sheet rock walls on each side of both f places. thanks. one thing im sure of is plank walls. lol
We are in the planning stages of building and I wanted to do this in our home. My hubs and I have been debating over whether there should be drywall behind it. He says yes and I say no. What are your thoughts?
Hi Beth,
You’re really both right as it depends on what you do with the walls that will matter. If you are going to insulate the walls then I wouldn’t go to the trouble of drywalling them too. (That is the option we chose.) However if you aren’t going to insulate your walls, or you are using very thin planks, then I would recommend drywalling them first.
I hope this helps! Thanks for being here!
Blessings,
Beth
were any of the walls, outside walls? if so, didnt you need a vapor barrier?
Hi Dan,
Yes two of the walls are outside walls. We insulated well and haven’t had any problems with the walls warping and the room was completed in 2014. Thank you for reading!