Has anyone ever put up bead board in their house? It's quite charming, so yes, we put it up in our rental apartment. (Don't tell the landlord). I LOVED it...once it was completed.
BUT, putting it up was maybe the biggest nightmare of my home improvement existence. The board comes in these huge, maybe 7x10 ft, rigid, press-board sheets. (See a sample cut piece below).
Not only do you have to know the exact measurements of the walls you want to put it on, but you also have to figure out how many pieces of the board you need, what dimensions to cut it, if you can match up the seams on the board, if you have a car big enough to take the pieces home, if the piece you have is big enough or if you have to buy a whole seperate piece just to make the seams match, what you are going to use to attach it to the wall, and on and on and on!! Since my mom has helped put this up in about 3 different houses now, she informed all of us kids that she is completely DONE with bead board. She reached her quota -- too bad for me.
Well, I came across a sweet-sauce idea - solving all my bead board nightmares. It's bead board wallpaper!!!!!!
So easy to cut and measure. So easy to attach. So easy to transport. It's got the groove texture like real bead board. And you can even paint it. Holy Beejees this stuff is cool.
Confession: since I am now living in another rental, I haven't actually used it yet, but once we buy a new place (hopefully soon), come see it - I'm sure to use this stuff.
