I came across this awesome idea on Design*Sponge. It's a feature wall that's made from salvaged and reclaimed wood. They used a variety of bold colors, raw wood, and stained wood to create the unique and beautiful wall. Visually there's something happening with the textures and varied wood boards and the dimensionality of the focal wall that is appealing. This wall will definitely brighten up any room. Now, I'm inspired to create a feature wall!
The wall took 3 days to complete and $130. This is how it started: They went to a local salvage yard, put on gloves and began pulling boards from the high racks of salvaged wood. Then they laid out all the pieces (some siding, some barn wood, some wainscot and a lot of pieces from a deconstructed high-school gym floor. You can see the colors from the school insignia in the green, black, red and coral stripes throughout) outside on the patio and began working out how they'd fit together visually and geometrically. Some pieces were 2.5 inches wide, some were 4.25 inches, some were 9 inches and the rest fell randomly in-between. The next day they started building from the bottom, using a pneumatic/air compressor nail gun to affix the pieces in a horizontal pattern. (A chop saw was essential to cut the lengths; a jigsaw allowed them to cut holes for the outlets.)
They had a few salvage yards where they could find the wood all in one go, but if you don’t, be patient and start collecting piece by piece. "Of course, humor and a good sense of 10th-grade geometry doesn’t hurt." - said the homeowners
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