Cheap DIY Bedroom Accent Wall Idea

It doesn’t take a full-scale redo to remodel the look a bed room. Usually, all you want is a well-placed accent wall. Syndey Lorence—on Instagram as @diysquid—knew that’s what she needed for her master suite. Earlier than, she says, “it was simply your common wall. I had some photos hung on the grey wall; nothing particular. This home was constructed within the 1920s so it already had character, however it wanted somewhat oomph.”

Sydney needed an accent wall however needed it to have a particular really feel—and she or he needed it to be low cost. After some thought, she determined to make the most of shims, that are offered at {hardware} shops and utilized in DIY initiatives to fill in gaps which might be too massive for putty. “Shims are tremendous low cost and I assumed they may positively be used to make one thing cool,” Sydney says. “I needed to make use of them to make an accent wall that had a boho really feel and one thing nobody has seen earlier than.”

Sydney and her husband Max labored collectively on the mission, inserting the shims on the wall to make a herringbone sample. Every shim received one nail—utilizing a nail gun—to carry it in place; as a result of the shims are wedge-shaped, the skinny finish would break up if a nail went by it, so Sydney and Max positioned their nails on the thick finish. Complete work time, Sydney says, was about six hours, however they did the mission over the course of some months as different initiatives took precedence.

For the entire mission, Sydney and Max used about 60 12-packs of shims, or 720 shims. Complete price for these was solely about $90. “My husband made the cuts on the baseboards and ceiling at an angle however we weren’t fearful an excessive amount of as a result of figuring out it will be black, you wouldn’t have the ability to see each imperfection,” Sydney says. To make her portray job simpler, she did a fast coat of black spray paint within the gaps earlier than brushing a coat of flat black on the entire wall (Krylon ColorMaxx’s Flat Black). “I used a flat brush and jabbed the paint in all of the creases the most effective I may,” she says. Portray the encompassing partitions white helped the entire wall pop.

“The toughest half was in all probability the reducing and becoming the shims alongside the baseboard and ceiling,” Sydney says. “It was like a puzzle and also you wanted to seek out items to suit every spot. The best half was nailing them to the wall. It goes fairly fast with a nail gun and was truly form of enjoyable.”

As for the impact? “It may be laborious to inform in photographs however it has so many shadows and highlights, it seems to be so stylish,” Sydney says. “I really like every thing about it. I really like the colour. I really like the dimension. I really like that it was low cost. I really like that we made it ourselves. I really like that I’ve by no means seen one like this earlier than. I wouldn’t change something about it.”

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