How To Turn Panelling Into Walls

I love the look of board and batten.

How to turn panelling into walls.

From paneling to board and batten. Basically fill in the cracks of the wood paneling where the boards separate sand and paint. Removing fake wood panels can be tedious and expensive. If you d rather nail the panels to your wall after you ve arranged and numbered them skip to step 7.

Turn the wood panels into regular walls. Position and press the panel into place. How to make a wall with wood paneling look more modern. How to turn wood paneling into dry wall.

Tap in place with a rubber mallet. In our previous home we did board and batten in our master bedroom on the wall that our bed sat against. Like many designs and styles from the 70s fake wood paneling s popularity did not last leaving many homeowners stuck with a wall or surface that looks like a poor combination of wood and plastic. It hit me that with a few modifications we could do it here too.

Nothing screams the 1970s like a room covered in wood paneling. Even if you love the look of wood paneling across an entire wall or around. Faux or fake wood paneling was a very popular wall design in the 1970s. The paneling only took up a third of the walls.

This was a super easy solution to renovating this room but just took some patience. Do this by taking your knife with some spackle on the end of it and at a slight angle press the spackle into the grooves and then wipe clean the entire length of the. Use your spackle knife and fill the panel s lines and nail holes with the medium or heavy weight spackle if using making sure to press the spackle into the grooves firmly. As i studied the paneling i thought about our options.

The final step is to glue then nail moulding into place with finishing nails and cover with wood putty for a perfect finish.