Installing Beadboard Paneling In Bathroom

You can install beadboard in a number of ways.

Installing beadboard paneling in bathroom.

Prep your walls by dusting and cleaning the area where you ll be adding paneling. Cut the wainscoting to fit around the room. Watch how to install beadboard paneling from diy. Join pieces in the corners with 45 degree angles.

Our small half bathroom is 4 5 x 5 wide and we planned on putting the beadboard two thirds up the wall. 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. One option is to install it as wainscoting where the beadboard panel covers only a portion of the wall. 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.

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. Familiarize yourself with the separate parts that make up beadboard wainscoting. Panels or vertical boards baseboards and top cap moulding which provides an elegant finish to the top of the panel. Our foyer which you can see in the picture below has wainscoting.

You can do 45 degree mitered cuts again for the corners a well. Our beadboard needed to reach the height of the damaged wall so we used that as a guide. Continue this process until the desired area of the bathroom is covered in beadboard. One piece should be cut at a 15 degree angle to the front and the complementary angle on the back.

You can see it is markedly different than beadboard which is characterized by narrow grooves of wood placed in a tongue and groove manner. Decide which part of the wall you are going to cover with the beadboard. Hanging beadboard is a snap once you know these tried and true techniques. In a zigzag pattern apply paneling adhesive to the back of the beadboard.

Install baseboard moulding to beadboard bathroom install your floor baseboard along the bottom of the beadboard wall using a brad nailer and brad nails. Considering that the large panels would have left us with too much waste so we used the planks. It is also called paneling.