Several months ago I saw a great idea for tongue and groove bead board on a laundry room wall. I showed it to Patrick and he loved the idea as much as I did. Over Christmas we bought the boards but were unable to find the time to install them until recently. This is the long wall before installation. A variety of laundry hampers usually go along this wall. It is long and boring.
We set up the saw in the garage, just outside the laundry room door. It was a nice winter Sunday afternoon.
Very shortly we had a few boards up and level. They went up really quickly with a little bit of paneling adhesive and small nails.
Within 3 hours we had all of them installed, including cutting around the electrical outlet.
We topped the edge with the same kind of trim around the door frames. We had to shellac the knots so the resin would not weep thru the paint. We put wood fill in the small nail holes and then painted the whole thing with the same white trim paint.
We are really happy with the final result. Now I just need to hang some artwork or something creative above it. It is amazing how much I like this room as I remember the laundry room at the old house............in the basement, with a dusty concrete floor and red flaky paint walls and poor lighting. Spiders and cobwebs were the only decorations I previously had. This is soooooo much better.
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