EASY STEPS TO BUILD YOUR 3D WALL FEATURE

Gather your supplies • 18 x 18mm primed pine

You’ll also need Sugar soap; interior paint; painting equipment; sandpaper; undercoat; stud finder; painter’s tape; spirit level; pencil; mitre saw; finishing nail gun with 50mm nails; measuring tape; stringline; PVA glue; square; gap filler; rag; wood puƒy

Here’s how

STEP 1 Wash wall using a sugar soap solution and allow to dry. Apply 2 coats of paint to the wall in your selected colour. Allow to dry aer each coat.

STEP 2 Lightly sand uncut lengths of timber for wall and remove any dust. Undercoat and then apply 1 coat of your selected wall colour to the timber. This first coat will reduce painting time once the timber is on the wall.

STEP 3 Use a stud finder to locate position of timber studs behind the plaster wall. Put strips of painter’s tape on the skirting to mark the position of the studs. Use a spirit level to very lightly draw plumb lines on the wall with a pencil to show where your studs are.

STEP 4 Cut lengths of timber with a mitre saw to make a perimeter frame around the wall and above the skirting. Use a nail gun fiƒed with 50mm nails to nail this frame into studs.

STEP 5 To work out length of timber that will form one side of the ‘angled ladder’ going up the centre of the wall, first measure the height of the wall between the perimeter framing, then measure along the top of the framing from a corner and mark at the same distance. Measure from the boƒom corner up to this mark to find the length. Cut timber with a 45Š angle on each end, with your distance running from the long point at 1 end to the short point of the angled cut at the other.

Use technology to your advantage! Download a trigonometry app to your phone, then just plug in the height of your wall to give you the angled length.

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