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Had a fun project I was working on over the last week and a half or so- figured id share-
I recently built a house in the Des Moines area and I always said when I moved into my first home- I would have a barn wood style basement- but instead of getting actual barn wood- I purchased a couple types of wood- multiple stains and decided to make it up as I went. I think it turned out awesome! Once I get stuff hung up and I get my muskie replica back in sept I will update it- but it should turn out pretty great! the two light pine squares I am getting a couple pieces of steel with designs laser cut out that will go over them. Just the parts of steel that are cut out will show the light wood.
I started out by painting my walls brown so if there was a gap in the wood none of of the white would show through
Then came getting all the raw wood- I had to cut it all to different lengths to get the random look and also true up 4 sides so it fit flush
this was just about 1/2 of the wood
Then came staining it 5 different stains- a couple of them more than 1 coat to give another color
We then started hanging it- no rhyme or reason- just wanting it to look "random" main thing was to make sure it was level on the top layer- which was tuff since the ceiling wasnt exactly level
Once it was all up- we touched up what needed to be and then framed out the door and corners or the wall and recessed pine squares. Once it was touched up I sealed it with a flat finish
finished product
I will be switching out all the white wall fixtures to either metal or brown so they dont stand out as much- but I think it turned out exactly like i wanted
Sorry for the long post- figured a few of you would enjoy this!
I recently built a house in the Des Moines area and I always said when I moved into my first home- I would have a barn wood style basement- but instead of getting actual barn wood- I purchased a couple types of wood- multiple stains and decided to make it up as I went. I think it turned out awesome! Once I get stuff hung up and I get my muskie replica back in sept I will update it- but it should turn out pretty great! the two light pine squares I am getting a couple pieces of steel with designs laser cut out that will go over them. Just the parts of steel that are cut out will show the light wood.
I started out by painting my walls brown so if there was a gap in the wood none of of the white would show through
Then came getting all the raw wood- I had to cut it all to different lengths to get the random look and also true up 4 sides so it fit flush
this was just about 1/2 of the wood
Then came staining it 5 different stains- a couple of them more than 1 coat to give another color
We then started hanging it- no rhyme or reason- just wanting it to look "random" main thing was to make sure it was level on the top layer- which was tuff since the ceiling wasnt exactly level
Once it was all up- we touched up what needed to be and then framed out the door and corners or the wall and recessed pine squares. Once it was touched up I sealed it with a flat finish
finished product
I will be switching out all the white wall fixtures to either metal or brown so they dont stand out as much- but I think it turned out exactly like i wanted
Sorry for the long post- figured a few of you would enjoy this!
