New Wall Treatment In Our Kitchen

A couple of weekends ago I put up this "square" treatment on our breakfast area wall.

It was SO FAST and easy. I'll give instructions in this post!

Here's how the wall looked the other day.  I liked the blue, but I wanted something a little more interesting, beachy, and unique.

This is covering an arch wall that enters into our family/tv room.  Oh I can't show that room.  It's the room in the house that has been pushed aside for so long.  The room where you dream of a suprise makeover.  Where you leave for the day and come home and see the "Big Reveal".

Anyway...

I did the same thing in our bedroom in the house we sold.  I think these squares were 24". This was done with the 2 1/4" wide lattice wood moulding. The cost was over $8.00 per 8 ft. piece!! OMGosh!

In this room I did the whole wall,  from floor to celing behind the bed.

OK...I'll show a little peek at the other side of the arch. 

That's the glass door that goes into the garage. I got this stencil from a store on Etsy.

Cutting Edge Stencils 

You should check out her store! She has gorgeous stencils!

Click the link and go see the store!

 I tried it on the wall. 

I need to play with it awhile to get the final look.

Click this link to go straight to the stencil I used.  Check out what she did with it...so pretty!

Anemone-Grande

To save money I used the PVC 1 and 1/2" "lattice".  They were $5.00 something for each 8 ft.piece.

The wall is small and the area I covered was small too. 

I got the supplies at Lowes in the moulding dept.  These squares are 19".  The bottom wasn't a complete square. It didn't work out that way.  They're about 3/4 of the 19 inches.

I measured how tall I wanted it to go and put the top "cap" piece up.

You can get creative with what you use as your cap piece.

Thicker, wider, fancy...get creative.

I just used the same 'board'.

Next put up all of your vertical pieces. Use a level to make sure they're straight up and down.

Mine are 19" apart.

Then just fill in the spaces with the small pieces to make the squares.

It' was that easy!!

I cut all of my pieces with hand tools...a hand miter saw and miter box.  This pvc cuts like butter!

I use a few little smears of adhisive on the back...stick it on the wall...and put in a few little nails here and there.

You can use your existing baseboard moulding as the bottom, or add a bottom piece above that moulding.

Keep all of the squares and/or bottom piece about 1/8" to 1/4" away from your baseboard.  That way if you ever have to remove the baseboard, the wall treatment won't be affected..

Then I filled all of the joints, nail holes (set nails with a "nail set") and cracks where the moulding meets the wall with a squeeze tube of caulk.

I also went back with some spackle to go over the joints and nail holes one more time because the caulking seems to sink when it dries.

Then sand and paint.

I love the way mine turned out! And I think it makes such a difference in the room!

And it took just a few hours!!

Thanks for looking...

Kelly