Installing Beadboard Paneling In Bathroom

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Installing beadboard paneling in bathroom.

Decide which part of the wall you are going to cover with the beadboard. Our small half bathroom is 4 5 x 5 wide and we planned on putting the beadboard two thirds up the wall. One piece should be cut at a 15 degree angle to the front and the complementary angle on the back. Hanging beadboard is a snap once you know these tried and true techniques.

Continue this process until the desired area of the bathroom is covered in beadboard. One factor on deciding whether to buy the 4 x 8 panels or the planks depends on the wall width of the room you re putting it in. You can install beadboard in a number of ways. Faqs on our beadboard bathroom and installing beadboard is there a between beadboard and wainscoting.

Panels or vertical boards baseboards and top cap moulding which provides an elegant finish to the top of the panel. It is also called paneling. Our foyer which you can see in the picture below has wainscoting. While there is no single standard height for installing beadboard in a bathroom the typical height ranges from 38 to 42 inches off the ground or taller than the vanity or sink.

Considering that the large panels would have left us with too much waste so we used the planks. One option is to install it as wainscoting where the beadboard panel covers only a portion of the wall. In a zigzag pattern apply paneling adhesive to the back of the beadboard. Cut the wainscoting to fit around the room.

Press the beadboard bathroom paneling into place along the line and attach it to the wall with finishing nails in the top and bottom of the beadboard. Wherever the panels meet along a straight portion of the wall cut the panels on a 45 degree angle a scarf joint so the pieces match up to hide the seams. Install baseboard moulding to beadboard bathroom install your floor baseboard along the bottom of the beadboard wall using a brad nailer and brad nails. You can see it is markedly different than beadboard which is characterized by narrow grooves of wood placed in a tongue and groove manner.

Familiarize yourself with the separate parts that make up beadboard wainscoting. You can do 45 degree mitered cuts again for the corners a well. Join pieces in the corners with 45 degree angles.