Make your own DIY wood slat accent wall with this easy video tutorial. You can modify the design for horizontal, vertical, painted or stained slats.
I am always trying to push my designs to the next level. When we renovated our kids' bedroom in the fall, I wanted to add a fun wooden feature wall, and my husband's response was, "because it's not just enough to add a million stencils", lol. We did add stencil walls, and they look amazing, but the DIY Wood Slat Accent wall that we did, added something special to the room, and defined it's own little reading nook for them.
Slat walls like these are gaining popularity, and I love it! You can do horizontal versions, vertical ones, painted ones, or stained ones. So far, I haven't seen one that I didn't like! So I decided to try something new, and paint one black on black. The results look amazing as part of our kids' bedroom, and as part of my staged adult reading nook.
Video Tutorial for a Wood Slat Accent Wall
If you want to try to make your own, I'm sharing all of the written instructions below, but here is a video tutorial to help supplement all of the instructions as well. Watch how the whole wall came together in just a couple of days.
How to Make Your Own Wood Slat Wall
Materials Needed:
- Wood Boards or MDF (½" thick)
Chelsie
Monday 18th of March 2024
Hi! How wide of a spacer did you use between spacers? Yours looks like the perfect distance apart!
Lindi
Friday 5th of April 2024
We used a spacer that was the same width as our slats :)
Nick
Saturday 29th of January 2022
How did you handle the spacing of the slats in the corner? I can't really tell from the picture. Does one slat get butted up against the corner completely while the other is space off of it?
Lindi
Saturday 29th of January 2022
There's actually a space on both sides when they come to the corner - not the full width of a slat. Honestly, I think we just measured off the wall and let it stop where it wanted, lol. You could go right into the corner on one side like you suggested too.
Melissa
Friday 5th of November 2021
Hi - I really love the wall. I was thinking of doing something similar however with some floating shelves. Do you think it would be okay to have floating shelves directly on the slats?
Lindi
Wednesday 1st of December 2021
As long as you had some structure to tie the shelfs into. Our floating shelfs over our coffee bar were installed over our moulding feature wall.
Colleen
Sunday 20th of June 2021
We recently had to re-plumb our whole house and I want to do this process to cover up all of the drywall repairs. I don’t want to use nails since the new plumbing is in that wall. Do you think construction adhesive will be good enough to hold it up?
Lindi
Monday 12th of July 2021
You might be able to make it work! You just need to make sure that the boards are all held tightly in place until the construction adhesive sets.
Anusha
Wednesday 19th of May 2021
This wall looks amazing. For a rookie like myself, do you think i will find the board at local Home Depot and have them cut it for me into slats
Lindi
Monday 24th of May 2021
Yes! You can do this! I think you have to pay per cut, but it's definitely a possibility!