Of course everyone’s house is different, but my tip for this is to measure down at least 4″ from the top of the door casing.Īfter we installed the entire lower portion of moulding on the walls and were frustrated and overwhelmed at the thought of custom cutting the entire upper section, Court came up with a genius idea. I set it at a height where the off cuts from the molding could be used in a different section of the room (underneath the windows!) With molding that expensive, I was not about to waste it because of a dumb measurement mistake. Step 1: Set the horizontal trim piece heightįirst thing we did was set our 4″ horizontal piece. This gave our molding something to die into and we were able to mask the seam situation.Īnd honestly, it makes the space dont you think?!īecause we were making this up as we went, we learned some great lessons along the way! So forgive me if my pictures arent as chronological as my instructions. In order to mask a seam, and not have to putty+sand+curse every single one of the dowels, we added a 4″ horizontal piece that went all the way around the room. One of the hurdles we faced with our walls ended up making the treatment 500% better! The pieces of molding were 8 feet long.
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If you come up with a better option please let me know and I will update this post!! How to install a fluted wall treatment But ultimately, buying precut half rounds was the most inexpensive strategy to get the look I wanted.
Wall treatments full#
Buying full round pieces and ripping them in half, running cut pieces through the router, I even toyed with the idea of reaching out to the company that made our custom molding for our front doors at the Merc. You guys know I am ALL ABOUT doing things as inexpensively as possible and I ran through a few different scenarios. At $3.92/piece this wall treatment was around $1700. Total I ended up buying 442 pieces, and we used about 400 of them and returned the rest. So like I said earlier, I cleared out 7 stores. Give me all the geometry type math, but this kind? Nope.
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If you want to figure out how much you’ll need, start by taking the total wall width and times it by the width of your molding (ours was 11/16″) Where things can get hairy is adding extra footage to compensate for the ceiling height (our ceiling was 11″ longer than the 8′ trim piece) and subracting the spacing for windows and doors.
One great thing about buying molding from a large retailer like Home Depot or Lowes is that you can return the left overs. Well, not million, but definitely a couple thousand. This my friends is the million dollar question. How much half round trim will I need to flute a wall? Pick your poison depending on your bandwith and project turnaround time. You guys know I am a Home Depot girl through and through, but we had a quick turnaround on our project, so I drove to Vegas and singlehandedly cleared out 7 stores.
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You might be able to order mass quantities from the pro desk, I would check! They dont have an option to purchase it online. Not because it’s hard to find, but because it seems to be sold out everywhere! Home Depot only sells half round trim online, they dont have it in stock (at least not in Utah/Nevada) Ordering online is obviously super easy because it’s shipped directly to your door. Tracking down half round molding is probably going to be the hardest part of this project. Pull Saw (if you have windows!) Where to buy half round molding Like I mentioned before, it’s not a hard process, it’s just really tedious-but SUPER worth it!! How to DIY a Fluted Wall Treatment It’s a texture that you are magnetically pulled to, you cant help but run your hand along it. If you want to see how this project played out in real time with tips and trick watch this IG Highlight reel! It all depends on how it’s styled and the color of the wall! can pull either very boho and a little 80’s or more traditional like ours. We’ve seen slat walls take the DIY world by storm over the last few years, this is the more refined version of that.
It is an absolute labor of love, so settle in because if you are going to DIY this fluted wall treatment you’ve got to have stamina.įluting is a type of molding finish where half round, or rounded pieces of molding are repeated over and over. You guys know I love a good wall treatment, but I dont know if I have ever loved a wall treatment as much as I love this Fluted wall.
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