Hey CSIers!
I am Mandi (also known as Mandilicious) and I blog at Vintage Revivals.
You should click over and visit my blog because:
1. It’s awesome
2. I pretty much only do EPIC projects. Like this awesome rug that I just made for my living room.
3. It gets kind of crazy on my side of blogland…which is always fun right?
4 I am going to be famous one day. Hopefully the good kind of famous, not the crazy E! story kind of famous.
So here is what I am sharing with you all today.
How to do Ultra Quick Board and Batten.
*Also my husband breaks out in hives when I do anything permanent to the house. So this is a way that renters can incorporate the trend of Board and Batten without, you know… getting evicted.*
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I am not really the measuring type. And the measuring and leveling for Board and Batten is intense. So I had to find a way to shorten the process. One of my BBFF’s sent me this picture from PB and I was so excited! Cause there isn’t so much measuring involved!
So I measured the length of my wall and figured that I needed about 12 boards. I went to Home Depot on a mission to find the cheapest wood ever. After seeing what the cheapest wood ever looked like I figured I could spend a little more than that.
I ended up with preprimed MDF boards that were 2” wide and 10’ long. Each piece was $3.39. For the piece along my ceiling I got the same type of wood except it was 5” wide. You can find it in the same isle as all of the molding.
The first thing that you will do is nail in place your piece that runs along the ceiling.
Once that was done I measured exactly how far from the base of the molding to the top of the baseboard. Loads of bloggers have ripped out their base board or installed thicker ones to accommodate the B &B but, I am only doing one wall and don’t want to have to replace ALL the baseboards in my house. So I cut the base of the slats at a 45 degree angle.
Then I took the width of my wall and divided it by 12 (cause that is the # of slats I purchased)
There is a 13.5” gap between boards. Here is the easy part. Mark your wall. The whole thing. That way you only have to bust out the measuring tape once.
Once your wall is marked its time to start laying your slats. I put 1 nail right in the center that way I can level it without shifting the entire piece.
Then I leveled the bottom of the slat. Once all 12 of them were leveled at he bottom I moved in the ladder and leveled all of the top pieces. You have to make it sort of like an assembly line.
I used a nail gun and had the entire wall done in 35 minutes.
Then all you have to do is touch up the slats if you have pre painted them or if you are awesome like me do a quick paint job. I LOVE dense foam rollers for anything involving trim.
And there you go!
Because you only used finishing nails instead of liquid nails its totally removable. And I did not caulk the seams for the same reason. If you do want to caulk your seams my friend Beth has a great tutorial.
Also I have an AWESOME Giveaway for a Silhouette SD going on at Vintage Revivals RIGHT NOW! So click over and enter!!
Wow – thank you so much Mandi! What a great tutorial!!
We love Mandi and all of her great ideas!!