FINALLY I am here with our DIY shiplap tutorial. You guys.. this is seriously so easy & makes a huge impact on any room. We have always been a shiplap fan & even did a shiplap wall in our NC home 4 years ago. Since then we have learned a lot & have tried a lot of different ways to do shiplap & the shiplap we have done in our office now is by far the cheapest & easiest way to install shiplap on your walls. In the rest of our house we used more expensive tongue and groove boards and we had my brother [an expert trim worker] do the shiplap for us. For this room we used… plywood. That’s right, plywood. We did this entire room for less than $100 total & I call that a win. To be exact I think we spent somewhere around $80 for the whole space & we already had the paint on hand so that was a bonus. The office is far from done & we have some exciting things happening in this space very soon, but I couldn’t hold off sharing this tutorial with you guys because a lot of you were waiting for it. So here is the rundown of how we shiplapped the office…

Seriously not looking bad right? We are so close to finishing up this office, but some HUGE changes are coming soon. Like lots of furniture changes that I can’t wait to show you. BUT today it’s all about the shiplap. So let’s talk about how easy this really is…

Here is what Jose had to say about the shiplap:

“The shiplap is ¼ inch sanded 4’ x 8’ plywood, cut to 6 inch pieces. To save a lot of time, I had Home Depot cut the strips of plywood, since they have a much larger set-up to cut the 8ft pieces. For the installation grab a few nickels, about 15 cents worth, and use them for the spacing between the top and bottom of each board. Starting at the very bottom, rest the piece of plywood on the baseboard and staple it in. I used 18 gauge staples and pneumatic nail gun. Start on one side of the board and work your way down to the other, to mitigate any bubbling in the middle area, and also it allows you to run your nickel along with you in between the boards as you staple. Going all the way around the room, one level at a time. Moving the next board up from the baseboard, use your nickel to keep an even spacing and make sure that it is parallel to the ground, you can ensure this by slightly pushing down pinching the nickel between the boards and staple it in place. Move along the board doing the same thing until you reach the end of the wall. Once you make it all the way up the wall I finished it off with a pre-painted 1 x 2 board to trim the top. To hide all the holes and indents from pressing the nail gun on the wood, I used spackle; and caulked the edges and corners.”

A little before:

& how it looks today…

We painted the room in Benjamin Moore Dove white which is the color of the rest of our house & we love it. It’s literally the perfect white. We have a few touch ups to make, but no one is looking right? So, that is how we did our super easy & cheap shiplap in the office that cost less than $100 for a 10×15 room. Not bad! I can’t wait to get this office finished up and styled for the final makeover reveal… stay tuned for that! What do you think of our shiplap? Let me know in the comments below, find me on Facebook, & chat with me on Instagram! Thank you so much for stopping by the blog!! xx

A little office to-do list yet:

-Paint the DIY card catalog [tutorial coming soon]
-New desk
-New stools
-Add some additional furniture
-Get a rug
-Hang some art
-Style the room
– Do the final reveal & actually use the room full time!!