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I can't start any diy project without scouring the internet for all of the possible variations and tips the world has to share. Here are blog posts and pictures that helped me make the decisions for my board and batten wall.  theturquoisehome.com This write up was the most useful tutorial I found to help me make particular design decisions. This is also where I got the 45 degree angle idea.
These two images moved me towards a taller wall - we decided on 2/3 of the way up our wall. They also helped to inspire our color choice!
Another decision to make involved the stairs. Should we run the boards up the stairs or let the design stop when it hit the steps? Continuing the board and batten wall up the stairs would have taken significantly more work and committed us to the same design upstairs. It took me a very long time to find an example of the wall ending as it reached the stairs but once I saw a visual representation I knew it was the right choice.
Here's a few more dreamy photos. Something about the way the wall wraps around the corners is very satisfying to me.
This was the back up plan if the board and batten wall didn't work out. Again, we see the version that follows the stair case and the version that runs into it. What I find notable about both is that the accent wall color is brought into elements of the stairs, as well. The railing on the green one and the stairs themselves on the blue one.
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  Before view from the front door (Installing the black and white tiffany-style lamp was the very first thing I did to this house) After passing through our front door vestibule you enter a narrow entryway that heads straight up the stairs or allows access to the downstairs rooms on the right. There's also a radiator in the middle of this already narrow path which seems like an unnecessary waste of space, but at least previous owners had custom built a cover for it. Essentially we have a built-in receiving table.  Before view of the entryway from the top of the stairs Aside from that, I found this space to be too small to serve a useful function - coats on hooks would assault any person trying to pass though, for instance - but as the first impression of the inside of the Manor it was awfully boring. Eventually we landed on installing a board and batten wall for visual interest that wouldn't take up more space.  in progress Here's how we did it: I’ve never been great with math (despite the fact that my father was a numbers wiz of an actuary) and I knew this was going to need some precise equations so the boards were spaced evenly the whole way. I wasn’t sure how to tackle this, but then I remembered that my father is a newly retired numbers wiz of an actuary! We’ve come a long way, my dad and I, since I would ask him for long division help in the 4th grade and end up in tears and frustration. I called him up and explained the project. I needed an equation to equally space the vertical 1x3 boards on a 17 foot wall with the first and last boards landing exactly on each end. Determine the horizontal length you are covering, in inches. Subtract the width of the vertical board y = number of vertical boards x = spacing z = width of vertical board y = inches-x / x+z Our 17 foot wall = 204 inches. Our vertical boards are 3 inches so our distance in inches we are starting with is 201” y = 201 - x / x + 3 Once he came up with the algebra to solve this, Jeff and I plugged in different amounts of vertical boards and played around with how the different options looked on the wall until we landed on the spacing we liked. We decided on 10 boards* - not including the first board, which is already baked into the equation by putting a 3 inch gap between each distance - with a spacing of 17.4 inches. *Kind of - because we knew we wanted the horizontal board to run into the stairs, we didn't actually place a vertical board at the end, but spaced it as if there would be a board there if the stairs weren't in the way. We knew we were going to paint this Sherwin Williams Dard Hunter Green so we applied a dark paint primer before we started marking out our spacing. We also installed the horizontal board so we could cut the vertical pieces exactly to size. It’s an old house and things don’t always align perfectly. We realized we needed to measure every piece to its exact location, despite the fact that it was technically level. We also needed to cut size specific pieces running up the stairs. The final decision we needed to make was what to do about the bottom. We weren’t interested in messing with the original floorboard but we needed to blend the two elements together, so we decided on a 45 degree angled cut at the bottom to transition them. It worked great! We got to work measuring, cutting and painting our boards. Jeff used our paint gun to spray paint the boards before we hung them. We used Liquid nails interior paneling adhesive and 2' hardwood trim finishing nails to to attach the boards to the wall, and applied wood filler to the seams, nail holes and anywhere where else that needed to be smoothed out. We finished everything up with a few coats of paint and here we are! I couldn’t be more happy with how it turned out and people are often surprised to learn it isn’t an original feature!  Board and Baton instructions Supplies:
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y = inches-x / x+z
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