I have wanted to do a board and batten wall ever since I saw Whitney and Ashley do one. If you don’t know these fabulous ladies, they are the Shanty 2 Chic sisters and one of my biggest DIY idols. There hasn’t been one project that these ladies have created that I haven’t totally fallen in love with.
I totally love their style! This is their board and batten wall.
image credit: Shanty 2 Chic
Unfortunately, my entry way is not this large, but on the plus side — my board and batten wall only cost me $17! Yup, you read that right — $17!!!
And not to mention, it totally transformed this space. Take a look and see how I did it! This is seriously so easy, too!
Before
The first thing I did was measure the length from one side of the wall to the end and then using a mitre saw I cut my piece of MDF board to my measurement. 
I used my air nailer to attach the piece of MDF to the wall. Unfortunately I have a light switch there so that kind of dictated to me how high I could go up. I could have framed it in my board and batten wall but that would have made for more work.
Next I measured from the underneath of the MDF board to the top of my base board and cut a piece to fit.
I cut three more and nailed them to the wall evenly spaced.
I used some Behr primer and painted the inside white and gave the MDF boards a fresh coat of paint.
Note: you could cut and attach a large piece of MDF to go behind your panel pieces, but I wanted to keep this as inexpensive as possible so I just painted the wall.Â
Once the primer dried, I followed it up with a coat of just regular flat white paint.
And here she is all done!
Not that I have a large entry way by any means but I am totally in love with this space now!
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13 COMMENTS
Giselle
9 years agoI love board and batten too! Your entrance looks awesome! I love the saying you have above it! I screenshot it so when I move to a smaller house after my daughter goes to university I can make one for my new house! Thanks for the inspiration!
hollygrace13
9 years agoYou are most welcome! Thank you for you kind comments!
Alyssa
9 years agoOh my gosh, I LOVE THIS. Swoon! I’ve been meaning to make a front entryway area ever since we moved in. Our stuff ends up in the general direction of the door and closet, but it never lands in a good spot. Thanks for the inspiration! The price is right too.
hollygrace13
9 years agoThe price is sooo right!! 😉 Thank you so much for your kind comments! When you make your front entryway feel free to share a pic!!
Scarlett Skillman
9 years agoI love this!! I have serious wall envy right about now. I would bust out the tools and get to work right away on this if I weren’t renting…
hollygrace13
9 years agoThank you so much Scarlett! 😀 This is our first home. Before this we rented, too and it’s so great to be able to do what you want when you want! 😀
AnAdornedAbode
9 years agoTurned out great. I think you had the perfect spot for this project! (Also, I totally agree that Shanty 2 Chic is amazing. My DIY idols as well. We just built a blanket ladder inspired by them!)
hollygrace13
9 years agoAwesome!! Thank you for your kind comment 🙂
futureblessings
9 years agoI also love the entry way , can you please tell me what your room wall color is I am shopping for a similar color
hollygrace13
9 years agoHi! Thank you so much!!! The color is called Basaltic Layer 6208-31 and the brand of paint is Sico … hope that helps!! 😀