DIY – Weathered Wood TV Wall Project

DIY – Weathered Wood TV Wall Project

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Last week, one of our close friends asked us for help with his weird TV Nook. Weird because the Smurf tube started right below the TV and ended behind – all within 2 feet !!! It was confusing and didn’t know where to put the media system and how to hide all the wires.

Below is how we solved the Problem. And the best part is that this project took us less than 4 hours!!!

DIY Skill Level Needed:

 

Materials

Before Picture

Observe the media and all the wires

Notice the weird location of Smurfs tube?

Project Day

Step 1: Building Shelve for Media System 

The shelves are not touching the back wall so that we have easy access to all cables and to hide unwanted media system stuff above the shelf (will be hidden behind the weathered wood wall)

Built this simple shelf. Used my Ryobi power hand saw for making cuts in the 8 inch Common Boards.

Step 2: Assemble Wall Support. Used my Ryobi small miter for all cuts on the 2 x 4 studs.

 

Step 3: Install TV Mount on the new Wall Support

Step 4: Install Weathered Boards 

Vola!!! Weathered Wall Reveal!!!

Tools

  • Tape Measure
  • Wood Screw Driver
  • Miter Saw (like this one from Homedepot or like this one from Amazon.com) or even a Handsaw works
  • Finish Nail Gun (like this one from homedepot or like this one from Amazon.com) with 1-1/4 in. Brad Nails

Here are links to some more Weathered Boards for DIY similar projects:

DIY – Fabric Wall Art

DIY – Fabric Wall Art

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Fabric décor is one of the easiest, cheapest and elegant décor anyone can do. This time our idea is to put fabirc wall art on the stairway wall. It is 15 Ft high wall, where the fabric wall art decor in combination with paint would look elegant. The project is so easy that can be completed in 1 weekend.

Continue to read this post to see what we did and how we did it.

 

DIY Skill Level Needed:

 

Materials

Before Picture

 

12 Ft Wall as indicated in picture to be decorated

Day 1: Shopping and Painting

We started with shopping at Joann Store for Fabric. OMG, there are lot of options to choose from at Joann’s. After searching for a while, selected 54″ geometric patterned drapery fabric. Our wall is 15ft and decor planned is to create 3 fabric panels of 1 Ft X 12 Ft each. So it requires around 4.5 yards of fabric to create 12 Ft long panel. Since the fabric is 54 inch wide, 3 pieces of 18 inch each width could be created and good enough to create 3 panels of 12 inch (1 FT) width.

Fabric we selected

Shopping continues at Home Depot for wood (to build frame for fabric wall art), paint, moulding.

Found 1 In. X 2 in. X 12 Ft wood with which the base frame can be built. 8 pieces of wood is enough to create 3 fabric panels. Key here is to make sure the frames are light weight, so that they can be hanged with just 2 screws on the wall. So make sure to chose the right wood.

Next choosing paint. Home depot have great collection of all modern colors in paint section. Selected Contemporary Modern Green paint to match the green color in the fabric.

And last but not least, the moulding as shown below picture

1 in. X 12 in. X 12 Ft Wood

Polystyrene Mahogany Base Moulding

Contemporary Modern Green Flat Sheen

Back to home and Project begins

Preparing the wall to paint: As the wall is 15 Ft high X approx. 8 Ft wide, equal distance is measured from all sides and the area of 14 Ft X 7 Ft in the center is marked. After marking the boarders, covered exterior of boarder with painters tape so that paint is not seeped outside marked area.

Once the wall is ready, painted the area with green color. 3 coats of paint is applied.

 

Day 2: Fabric wall art creation and installation

First: Creating frames of 12 FT X 1 FT. Since the panels are 12 FT high, need to add support in the middle as shown in below picture, so that they are sturdy. In the end,  as expected, the frames became very light weight, such that they can be hanged on 2 screws on wall

Now, its time to work on fabric. To cover the entire length of the frame of 12 FT, we cut the fabric of 13 FT (4.3 Yards or 156 Inch), so that, have fabric left to wrap around the frames. Thus the fabric is 156 inch long and 54 inch wide.

54″ wide fabric is cut into 3 pieces of 18 inch. Thus we have 3 fabric strips of 156″ X 18″ enough to wrap around 12 FT X 1 FT frames 

Image showing 54″ fabric cut into 3 pieces of 18″ each

Since the fabric is little thin, without lining cloth when the fabric was wrapped, observed that the frame was visible through fabric under light. Hence had to add lining cloth and it was cut to the length & width to match the fabric dimensions.

Now with all fabric ready, its time to prepare the fabric frames. First, wrapping lining cloth. Wrapped the cloth as tight as possible, so that there are no creases created. Then, used the staple gun to attach the lining onto frame. Further continued with fabric. Again, used staple gun to attach fabric to frame on the backside.

As we forgot to take picture when preparing the panels, found the sample picture showing exactly what we did.

After done attaching the fabric, 3 panels were ready to be hanged on the 15 FT wall. The panels turned to be very light weight even with 12 ft height becasue we chose light weight soft wood for making panels.

Measured equal distances from the painted area and divided the area into 3. And found studs in the required area. Then put the 2 1/2″ construction screws to the studs. Added 2 screws per panel at the top on which the panels can be hanged evenly, it’s  just like hanging any photo frame.

The panels were not hanging straight.  Probably because of the height. So to keep them firmly in place, we put construction screws around the panels(outside) at the top and at the bottom as shown in below picture 

Picture showing screws at the top of the panels

Picture showing the screws at the bottom of the panels

Installing panels is done. Now adding the border around the paint. We cut trim edges to 45 degrees to make the 90 degree corner joints. Trims were installed with 2 1/2″ finishing nails using Ryobi Nailgun.

Even though the paint edge was really smooth and straight, the entire set-up seemed unfinished until finishing trim/ moulding was added. Loved the finished set-up 🙂

Once the trim was added around the paint, the project is completed.

 

Vola!!! Fabric Wall Decor Reveal

Tools

Because we had the below tools in our tool collection, this project was very easy to complete in a weekend

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DIY – Great Wall Decor

DIY – Great Wall Decor

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The living room is one of our favorite places in our home. With open kitchen attached to the living room, it happens to be the place we spend a lot of time. Definitely wanted to make it a beautiful place by adding some accent colors and decor.

We started thinking about decorating the great wall in the room. It is 18 Ft high and 12 Ft wide with the arch in the center of 8 Ft by 6 Ft. Our ideas were between tiling, stonework, woodwork. All of our options resulted big in terms of effort, expense, time. Finally, we decided to go ahead with wood decor because it was easy and less expensive out of all the ideas we had.

Our idea was to install stained wood of 8 Ft at the center of the great wall from floor to ceiling. We also wanted to cover the inside edge of the arch and also align with the curved edge of the arch.

Continue reading this post to see what we did and how we did this project

DIY Skill Level Needed:

 

Materials

Before picture

A view of living room great wall from 1st floor

75" TV inside arch

75″ TV in the arch

8ft X 6ft arch

8ft X 6ft arch

Week 1: Preparation of Planks

As you see in below picture, we wanted to cover the inside edge and outside edge of the arch with stained wood. Also, align with the arch curved edge. The arch is 8ft X 6ft

Preparing planks to cover inside and outside edge of arch: Cut the wood into small planks of 1 Ft using a table saw. Then one side of each plank was cut to 45-degree angle using a miter saw.

1 Ft planks with 45 degree angle cuts

Forming L shaped joint planks: Applied glue on angled cut edge of 2 planks, joined them with 1/2 finishing brad nail and stapled, thereby forming L shaped planks.
We prepared around 30 L shaped blocks, 15 to be installed on each side of the arch.

Applying glue on angled cut edge

Joining glued edges

Left them to dry for like 2 hours.

After all planks were dried, the sharp joint edge was sanded with 100 grit first then with 200 grit sandpaper, thereby creating smooth and rounded edges at the joint.

Once the L shaped planks were ready, the staining process began

Stained 30 L shaped planks, 25 long 8Ft planks with 3 coats of American Walnut stain. This was like a week worth of work.

 

Week 2

Now it’s time to join the stained planks and white trim.

White Trim

Final product after joining trim on top of the stained wood

Adding White Trim on Stained wood

When all woods are joined together the white trim between wood looks like grout

Wood Panels are ready to install on the wall.

Started with installing L shaped planks from the top corner of arch then ascend down until we reached the floor. Then cut the wood to the line with the curved edge of the arch.

Continued with installing straight plank all the way up to the ceiling.
All planks were installed with 2 inch finishing Brad nails to studs, thereby making them sturdy.

Vola!!! Great Wall Reveal

Tools

Because we had below tools in our tool collection, this project was easy to complete
1. Cut wood: Ryobi Table saw, Ryobi Miter saw
2. Install wood planks: Ryobi Finishing Nailgun
3. Staining wood: Oil and Stain Brush
4. Sanding joint edges: Corner Cat Sander

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DIY – Shiplap Wall Decor

DIY – Shiplap Wall Decor

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Inspired by HGTV fixer upper show star Joaana Gaines, we wanted to try a shiplap décor on one of the wall in our home. We chose our Game room TV wall for this project. The project turned out to be very simple, easy and elegant look.

So to do this project, we went through various option, like getting pre-cut shiplaps, rustic look shiplaps, weathered wood shiplaps etc… All options came down to $$$ and we had a budget of $$ to spend on wood. After many searchs for cheap shiplap ideas online, we came across an idea of making our own shiplaps from thin 4 ft X 8 ft underlayment plywood. So, we just settled down on this idea and said – Let’s do it!!!!!!!

The most cool thing about this idea was to get the plywood cut to required length / height at home depot itself, thus saving us lot of time and effort involved in cutting big sheet of plywood to shiplap planks.

Continue to read this post to see what we did and how we did it. 

DIY Skill Level Needed:

 

Materials

Here is the picture of the wall before decor.

Day 1: Shopping!!! Lot of wood cuts!!! Installing Planks on Wall

Started with shopping at home depot for plywood. Found 1/4 inch x 4 ft x 8 ft common underlayment plywood to cut to 8″ X 8ft. We could get around five 8″ X 8ft planks created in each plywood board.

We have 2 walls: 1st with 12 ft X 12 ft, 2nd with 12 ft X 3 ft. So we required 6 plywood board to get 48 pieces of 8 inch X 8 Ft. Each plank costs $13. So for 6 plywood boards, it was total of $78.. woohooo. That’s way below our budget to cover 12 ft X 15 ft wall area!!!! Done with wood shopping at homedepot.

Back to home. All shiplap planks are now pre-cut for us :). All that we required to do was to install them on wall. Before we start installing, we sanded the cut edges to get smooth edges. We began with marking the stud placements on the wall. As you can see in above picture, there is a small attic door on the wall. We started with placing the first plank on the top of the door and remaining planks were installed around that. Wall 1 is 12 ft wide. So as and when necessary, we cut the 8 ft planks to fit the remaining length on each row.

All planks were nailed to studs with 2″ finishing nails using Ryobi Finishing Nailgun.

Used the thickness of long wooden yardstick (available in home depot) for creating the even distance between planks The thickness of the yardstick is 1/4 inch, which is perfect for the space between planks. Yardstick comes in 36 inches and are only 98 cents. So we used 3 yardstick for placing along all width of the wall.

We installed planks on 2 adjacent walls. Covered the joining edge of adjecent walls with metal outside corner moulding. Also all corners were also covered with flat trims

Day 2: Painting!!!

First covered all nail marks and plank joints with wood putty. Let it dry for 2 hours. Then started with painting. Painted 2 coats of décor white color

Vola!!! Shiplap wall Reveal!!!!

For Décor on walls:

Small wall: FRIEND’S Poster. Our Favourite sitcom 🙂
Big Wall: Multicolored Hearts Canvas Boards – Prepared them with paper paint palette and heart lever punch
Added the ikea cabinets for storage.
Found the vintage tall ship sailing boat at Home Goods that fits Nautical décor in the room
Rowing oar found them in hobby lobby complete the décor on the wall.

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DIY – Weekend Wall Makeover Project

DIY – Weekend Wall Makeover Project

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We always wanted a bold color wall decor in our home where we can take photos when we host party. We went through multiple thoughts, choices and finally settled down on Red color. Yes, Red color, not a common choice, but we like to be different.

When we moved into our brand new home, all walls were white, hence all walls in our home was our playground to experiment. We chose our formal dining room for this project. Beside adding red color to the room, we also chose to add the accent color of satin cream thereby matching it with drapes and furniture in the room.

Continue reading this post to see what we did and how we did this project

DIY Skill Level Needed:

 

Materials

Day 1

Preparing the wall: Covered all 4 sides of wall with Frog Tape (Painter’s tape) to secure the surrounding walls from seeping the paint. Removed the electric outlet plates and covered that area with painter’s tape.
Then painted wall with 2 coats of Red color. Waited 2 hours between applying coats.

Red color wall is ready

Next, we cut the wood panels of 1″ X 6″ – 8 Ft into square pieces of 6″ X 6″.  The wall dimensions were 10 Ft X 10 Ft. Hence to cover the whole wall it required around 40 small square pieces

Next: Wood painting. Painted 10 (1″ X 2″ – 8 Ft) woods in Red color. Then continued painting  40 (6″ X  6″) small wood squares in satin cream color. Left the woods to dry overnight.

 

Day 2

Once the wood squares and stripes dried completely, they were ready to be installed on the wall. Red painted woods were placed horizontally (Step 2 in below picture), so that they are secured to studs with 2 1/2″ screws. Around 7 rows were installed with equal distance between each row. As mentioned earlier, our wall dimension was 10 Ft X 10 Ft and the wood length were 8 ft. Hence we added 2 Ft extra wood on each row. Later, we covered the wood strip joints with wood putty.

After horizontal woods were secured to stud, we continued with placing square wood panels (Step 3 in below picture). The panels were placed with equal intervals in each row and offset with  alternate rows 

For décor, we placed the mirror in the center. The mirror sides were painted in satin cream color thereby matching it with ascent colors

A mirror in the center completed the wall decor

Once installing squares and mirror was completed, nails and joints were covered with wood putty. Finally, completed the project with last coat of painting wood strips with red color and square panels with satin cream color

 

Vola!!! Dinning Room Reveal!!!

Beautiful red wall is ready to be photographed 🙂 

Total 7 rows of horizontal long wood strips, 39 small woods and a mirror in the center were installed. Observe the offset placing of square wood panels in alternate rows

Tools

Because we had the below tools in our tool collection, this project was very easy to complete in a weekend
1. To paint the wall : 9″ rollers, Roller Handle,
2. To cut wood : Ryobi Circular Saw
3. To install horizontal red wood strips (Step 2 in Day 2 Section): Ryobi Cordless Drill
4. To install small square wood panels (Step 3 in Day 2 section): Ryobi Finishing Nailgun

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