Saw a really cool looking rustic treatment in a new store in town today.
A couple of accent walls in the store were done with old gray weathered barnboard, either selected for common widths or recut that way, and laid up horizontally on the walls, with “reveals” of white plaster (maybe lightly textured drywall) between.
Sort of gives the look you see in an old house made with square-hewn logs and white chinking between.
The flat surface of white was set back about 3/8 or 1/2 from the front face of the boards.
I’m going to file this one away in the memory bank for use in some future rustic situation.
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Gene- How wide were the 'reveals' between the boards?
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Edited 2/10/2005 2:25 pm ET by razz
The boards were maybe eight to nine inches wide, the reveals about 1-1/2".
Medium- to dark-gray boards contrasted with the white of the recessed reveals.
You say the boards were constant widths or random?"Live Free, not Die"
Pretty constant, maybe all within 3/4 inch or so of each other. Adjacent walls butting at inside or outside corners had the corners detailed with large antique timbers, so it wasn't important to get horizontal linearity from wall to wall.
Thinking of doing it somewhere? Maybe I should slip into that store with a digital camera.
Just putting it away for reference is all. Sounds right tho'.
Ya, some pics to put on here to benefit the site would be slick.
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