Would you like a wooden slatted wall in your living room or bedroom? But do you think the suppliers of these wooden slatted panels are just a bit too expensive for you? Then think about making such a wooden wall yourself. Nicole van Wijk preceded you and together with her husband they made a wooden slatted wall for indoors. And let's face it, this looks really beautiful, doesn't it?
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I once experimented with a wooden slatted wall in our kitchen project. Super cool to make these oak wooden slats against the kitchen cabinet and the result? That still makes me happy! So I immediately noticed this wooden slatted wall that Nicole and her husband made inside. I had saved it in my Facebook items because I want to use it in our guest rooms upstairs. I think a wall with wooden slats against it is so cool, for inside and outside by the way.
I just can't get to it at the moment because there are some other projects that have priority. But refurbishing the guest rooms with beautiful wallpaper, a new floor and wooden slats against the wall is definitely still on my to do list. Then it's just a matter of buying a sofa bed and the guests will feel like they're in a hotel, don't you think? Anyway. For now I wanted to show you how Nicole transformed the wall inside with wooden slats. And what that does to the appearance of that wall.
At least that's what the wall at Nicole's house looks like nowadays with the wooden slats. They did not make these wooden slats directly against the wall, but mounted them on an MDF board. They painted the MDF board black beforehand. Beautiful wall decoration, isn't it? You can also immediately buy a black MDF board if you want. You can make that black MDF board to size yourself. Or you can have it cut to size when you buy it. By using the MDF board, you ensure that the wall behind it is virtually undamaged.
They simply used two oak planks for the oak slats that are attached to the MDF board. Bought at the Karwei in this case. You can buy these oak planks at any hardware store, so it doesn't really matter where you get them from. The used size of the plank is 2.50 meters long, 195 mm wide and 19 mm thick. Costs are around € 30.00 per shelf and by shortening the shelf you can completely customize it for your room.
They sawed the planks themselves into lengths of 4.4 cm wide. Cutting these slats yourself can be a challenge if you don't have the right material for it. If you don't have the right material yourself, you can of course always ask the hardware store whether they want to saw the plank into slats. The big advantage is that you have nice straight wooden slats to make against the wall inside. Even better than the slats we used for our kitchen cupboard.
The mdf board is simply fixed in 4 places with screws in the wall. Did you paint the mdf board black? Then it is best to use black screws, they will no longer stand out. When placing the wooden slats on the wall inside (against the MDF board), Nicole kept a gap of 1.3 mm. But you can of course determine this yourself. The black mdf plate is then visible in between and that gives exactly the same effect as with the wall panels that you can buy. Simply stick the wooden slats to the MDF board with sealant or glue.
You may have to calculate the width of the mdf board in advance. Depending on the number of wooden slats that you want to make against the wall inside, the width of the slats and the spacing you want to use, you can calculate how wide the mdf panel should be.
What Nicole and her husband have done very nicely is that they let the mdf plate on the wall fall back slightly inside compared to the attached oak wooden slats. In other words… they let the wooden slats end slightly outside the mdf board. That gives a very nice effect when viewed from the side, take a look.
If you're a bit handy, you can actually make this yourself. Especially if you enlist the help of the hardware store for sawing the wooden slats themselves. In terms of costs, this solution is really much more interesting than buying wall panels to use. And it looks super sleek.
Thank you Nicole for the fantastic inspiration. I will definitely use it in our guest rooms and maybe even more places in the house! Keep you posted!
