Inexpensive DIY Batten Wall Using Lattice Strips

Tutorial: The best way to use lattice strips as a straightforward, cheap different to put in a DIY batten wall for including classic character to plain partitions.

Lattice strips are the MVP of this DIY batten wall mission!

I imply they are surely the unsung hero of quite a lot of little DIYs and crafts round right here. (Keep in mind that bathe curtain artwork we framed with lattice strips some time again?) This time it wanted a highlight within the breakfast nook.

A DIY batten wall behind brass vintage sconces above a green banquette bench

Since we form of have an habit to intricate wall molding round right here, it’s completely no shock in any respect that after we completed putting in and portray our Fb Market banquette discover within the breakfast nook, Robert and I checked out one another and mentioned, “One thing’s lacking.”

These clean partitions wanted character! And lattice might do the job inexpensively. As a result of molding is certainly one of my favourite methods to make a home look luxurious.

A breakfast nook with olive green banquette, herringbone floors, white walls, and black bifold French door

What’s Lattice?

Lattice is product of skinny strips of wooden mostly utilized in a criss-cross construction for trellises to assist climbing vegetation in gardens or to function porch skirting.

Nevertheless it’s good for easy wall molding tasks too. (Type of like Sharpie shiplap however far more legit.)

The worth of molding has skyrocketed currently (together with each different dwelling enchancment provide), so we found out a manner so as to add dear wanting batten wall molding for the fraction of the value utilizing useful dandy lattice strips at $1.28 per linear foot.

When you’ve by no means put in any sort of molding earlier than, it’s the right newbie model to attempt because it requires no miter cuts and lattice can sit flush proper on high of your present baseboards since they’re thinner than common 1×2 boards.

a stack of lattice strips

The best way to Make a Batten Wall Utilizing Lattice Strips

You might add this vertical batten wall throughout the room, as wainscoting, or simply as a board and batten accent wall. You might depart your partitions plain with none wall decor for a minimalist method or layer it with artwork for much more character.

It might be good for including onto a plain kitchen island too. Consider although, you probably have a textured wall, the method received’t be as easy, since you’ll need so as to add these MDF panels to your textured partitions utilizing Liquid Nails and brad nails first.

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Steps to Make a Batten Lattice Wall

measuring a wall to place lattice strips for a DIY batten wall

Step 1 – Measure and Resolve on a Format

Measure your whole wall first, determine how far aside you need your batten (vertical lattice strips) to be, and mark their placement on the wall with a pencil.

Keep in mind that lattice strips are 1 1/2″ huge, so issue that into your format plan. We set our battens to have an 8 1/2″ hole between.

Step 2 – Minimize Lattice Size

Measure the peak of your wall from baseboard to crown and minimize the primary lattice strip to the wanted size with a jigsaw. (Not all partitions might be completely the identical peak all the way in which throughout, so don’t minimize all your lattice based mostly on that first measurement.)

checking with a level to make sure lattice strips are perpendicular

Step 3 – Use a Degree to Examine Lattice Placement

“Dry match” the primary lattice strip and use a stage to ensure it’s completely straight.

Step 4 – Nail Lattice

When you’re pleased with the lattice strip placement, nail it to the wall with the brad nailer (or a hammer).

You need to use development adhesive right here as effectively, when you select, however as a result of the lattice is so light-weight, it’s utterly elective. (The batten wall will even be simpler to take away with out adhesive later if sooner or later you alter your thoughts.)

installing lattice strips for wall molding by dry fitting

Step 5 – Repeat

Repeat Steps 2-4 till you’ve positioned all lattice strips alongside the wall.

nailing lattice strips to a wall for DIY batten wall molding

Step 6 – Caulk Cracks and Wooden Fill Nail Holes

Caulk the entire edges of the lattice strips to fill the entire cracks, and fill the entire nail holes with wooden filler.

caulking and wood filling lattice strips

Step 7 – Sand Wooden Filler

As soon as the wooden filler is absolutely dry, sand clean with advantageous grit sandpaper (we use an orbital sander to make the method go sooner). Brush away any sanding mud after.

batten wall after caulking, wood filling, and sanding smooth before painting

Step 8 – Paint

Give the whole lot a contemporary coat of paint and also you’re finished! (We painted the wall first with the identical coloration we deliberate to make use of on the lattice strips in order that we wouldn’t should work round the entire particulars afterwards.)

batten wall painted white with brass vintage style sconces and green banquette

The Completed Batten Wall

Don’t you suppose these two batten partitions add a lot to this little breakfast nook nook? I adore it a lot!

We added these classic type sconces to deliver extra mild into this windowless area. What do you suppose?!

They work so effectively with this linear chandelier that provides a contact of recent, and the brass pops in opposition to that batten wall we painted Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace.

breakfast nook with green banquette bench, white batten wall made of lattice strips, and brass lighting

Wrapping Up Breakfast Nook Particulars

I nonetheless plan to color the air vent and add knobs to the banquette cupboard doorways.

(Now that it’s dry, I’ve to confess, don’t love the paint I had to make use of on the banquette thanks to produce chain points inflicting my favourite cupboard paints to be bought out. However oh effectively. If that’s our greatest problem, I’ll take it.)

I simply received the decision this week that the newly reupholstered cushions are completed! So it’ll all be coming collectively in right here quickly.

These DIY herringbone LVP flooring nonetheless look completely superb since we put in them just a few weeks in the past! Subsequent on the checklist is constructing a desk, refinishing some secondhand eating chairs for the opposite facet, and including some classic artwork and decor finds.

It will likely be so charming as we wrap up the ultimate particulars.

olive green banquette bench in a breakfast nook with white batten, herringbone floors, and black door

Have you ever ever finished a DIY batten wall earlier than? Or discovered a brand new use for lattice strips? They’re one of the best for therefore many issues!

Extra Undertaking Concepts Utilizing Lattice Strips

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