Michael Yadfar
02-09-2015, 12:46 PM
Sorry for the sideways image, but that's the wet bar I plan to redo. This came with the house, and was never ever used once as a wet bar. The cabinets are just cheap venered cabinets that I don't even think have real wood venere, and the wall behind is just drywall. I plan to redo this area by redoing the cabinet face, doors, and top with solid Walnut, and putting vertical planks along the wall behind that I will paint white.
Now my question comes in planking the wall, which I've done before with the box store tongue and groove sheets, but I want an authentic look of real planks. What I was thinking of doing is buying 8/4" poplar, and resaw it into four 3/8" pieces. Then I was going to glue the planks to wall vertically, spacing them a penny's thickess apart leaving a 1/8" space at the top and bottom, then paint. My questions of concern are whether the way I'm doing this is efficient material wise, whether or not I have to tongue and groove, and how I'm supposed to secure it to the wall properly. Since im going vertical, I can't really secure them to solid 2x4s
Now my question comes in planking the wall, which I've done before with the box store tongue and groove sheets, but I want an authentic look of real planks. What I was thinking of doing is buying 8/4" poplar, and resaw it into four 3/8" pieces. Then I was going to glue the planks to wall vertically, spacing them a penny's thickess apart leaving a 1/8" space at the top and bottom, then paint. My questions of concern are whether the way I'm doing this is efficient material wise, whether or not I have to tongue and groove, and how I'm supposed to secure it to the wall properly. Since im going vertical, I can't really secure them to solid 2x4s