Wooden Feature Wall

The ponderosa never ceases to amaze me.  Evertime we start a new project, we find hidden treasures and renovating Jayden's room was no exception.  It all started when we installed our heat transfer kit.  I blogged about process in Ducted Heat Transfer Kit.

While up in the ceiling, my husband said he thought the walls were sarking so we toss around the idea of pulling off the gib and having a look.  Worse case scenario was that it wasn't sarking and we would just have to reline the wall ... saving the hassle of stripping the hideous wallpaper.  Good for us, he was right!!  The next step was to break it to Jayden that she was having a feature wall, which wasn't something she warmed too very quickly.

The wood was native timber and as soon as all the gib for the wall came off, it's beauty was revealed.  Although it had a few holes in the wall, it look wonderful.  Jayden wasn't feeling the rough, natural wood look!!

Painting it was ... so Gig repaired the holes, filled in the gaps and sanded the wall slightly ready for the next conversation with Jayden.   My idea was to have a white wash finish by painting the wall grey, then painting diluted white paint over the top and rubbing it off.  Jayden wasn't feeling the white washed look either!!

Solution - paint the wall grey.  Jayden was definitely feeling that!!

I came home to find my husband had done this ......  Wooden feature wall it is!!

Gaps filled, sanded and test colours added

I don't really think the photo's give the finished produce justice as it really did come up beautifully.  If you are thinking of giving something like this a go, then I highly recommend it!!  It really did had a different dimension to the space adding some texture.

Happy living peeps!!