Hi Folks,
I found a blog (
It's the little things that make a house a home...: How To: Board and Batten) a while ago that showed an easy way to do board and batten on a budget and to save quite a bit of time. While my wife was out of town last week, I threw this up in the bedroom as a surprise. Fortunately, she loved it! Hopefully the attachments show up. We have some wall decor that we wanted to put up (not seen) that prevented me from doing the higher rail so I kept it a bit lower. You can see that the pictures were taken right after I got done. There is still caulking and paint work to be done.
The real question now that we both have are recommendations for paint colors. We just bought the bedding (
Product: Croscill "Galleria" Red Bedding Collection) and we would like to coordinate the walls with the bedding. Also, we will be getting new bedroom furniture soon, so the cherry colored furniture will go.
So the questions we have would be:
1. What color(s) should we choose to match the bedding.
2. Should the heavier color go on top or the bottom?
3. Most all of the board and batten style decorating I have seen is with a white bottom, but I think that would look pretty crappy with this bedding. What do you think? If we left the bottom white, what would you choose for the top?
4. We are planning on repainting both top and bottom, but leaving the ceiling white. (I hate painting ceilings)
Let me know what you all think.
-Travis