Let's make a Wood...Wall

Yep everybody is doing it, you know...installing a wood wall, like wood from a tree, why? what were you thinking?...Oooh you are naughty. Now that we are all on the same page, lets chat about wood. On pinterest you will see people calling this a "pallet wall" I didnt use any wood from pallets, so its just a wood wall. All the wood we used was from old fences, so it was all free, and the other materials you will need are:

• Hammer
• measuring tape
• table saw and/or circular saw
• 1.5" or 2" finishing nails
• paint

First if you are going to paint the adjoining walls do it before installing the wood, or you will need to tape off all the wood really carefully (such a pain in the ass) just do it before. Also another problem we ran into, was that if you are using weathered wood, which we were, it will NOT be straight, at all, so there will be gaps, we decided to paint a line of the navy blue paint between each line. Start from the TOP we did this because that's what I read to do, even though my hubby insisted on starting at the bottom I said shut it no sweetie, and after about 3 lines he realized it would have been way harder to fit the last line at the top. Anyway start at the top, and do a staggered pattern, we decided to do the wood wall on the only wall with a window for two reasons, one we would use less wood, and two the raw edges around the window makes it feel like it has always been there. This does take a few hours to complete because of all the measuring and cutting, but the finished product is beautiful!

We think it turned out pretty snazzy, my husband even admitted to thinking it's awesome!!

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The Stay at home bitch