Board and batten on my bedroom walls
I'm having hardwood floors installed in my bedroom as I type. This is a great time to finally paint and finish that room.
The room is 12 x 24. Most of the walls are beautifully, smoothly finished with a skim coat. Part are primer over drywall showing some poor taping with imperfections that bug me. For various reasons the remainder of the room hasn't gotten a matching skim coat.
Two questions:
#1) This bedroom is a plain rectangle. I'd like to do board and batten to add visual interest and to distract the eye from the part that has crappy taping and other visual imperfections. Ceilings are 8' so I like the idea of vertical lines to lift it a bit with two horizontals because I like the look. Considering whether I do all the walls or leave out the one with the sliding door, and what distance between the verticals. Love your suggestions / opinions / experience. I've never done this before.
#2) I favor BM Simply White. Curious - I've read that a white room in the midst of a house with color looks unpainted. Our house is small. LR and DR are BM Blue Veil (very pale grey/blue). This bedroom is at the end of an unpainted hallway (I can do whatever color I want). Off the hallway are a pale pink bedroom for my daughter, an office with Serena & Lily Luna wallpaper (white with navy) and a bathroom with Carrara that will be some shade of white, maybe Simply White.
Looking for feedback that if my public areas in the front of the house are Blue Veil / other coordinating colors and everything through the hall doorway leading to the bedrooms / office / bathroom are white or white with a pattern (office wallpaper) it'll flow fine?
Here's the room in question, and the board and batten style I like.
Board and batten I'm thinking of, but more vertical boards.
Or just the verticals
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