Hello friends! Are you as obsessed as I am with shiplap?? I loooove it! I love how it adds immediate texture, interest and farmhouse style. It has amazing power to transform a room with little effort!! But if you happen to be renting, you may be feeling way left out knowing you can’t DIY a shiplap wall in your home. 🙁 If this is you, then get ready to do your happy dance, because I have 6 mind blowing ideas for shiplap for renters! Whoo-hoo!!
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Shiplap for Renters
Honestly, these ideas are also fabulous even if you have shiplap walls in your home! There’s always room for more shiplap, am I right?? So, let’s dive right in and talk about how to decorate with shiplap!
Easy DIY Shiplap in a Frame
I am so in love with this idea from Nap Time Decorator! Can’t do a full wall of shiplap? Make shiplap and put a frame around it. Instantly gorgeous! Add a wreath on top of it and you have yourself a lovely, stylish accent piece that all your friends will be jealous of!!
DIY Shiplap Hall Tree
Oh my word, I just love this shiplap hall tree from the Liz Marie Blog! Not only is a hall tree amazing for organization, but it can also be a gorgeous statement piece in your home! You can make one that is movable—perfect for renting! Take it with you!
DIY Shiplap Headboard
Isn’t this such a great idea from Roots and Wings Furniture? Make your own headboard with in a shiplap style and you’ll have a beautiful piece of furniture that will move with you wherever you go! And you can make the headboard as tall and big as you want! (I always like the overdramatic, haha!)
Removable Shiplap
Is there such a thing as removable shiplap?? Yes, my friend, there is! Use removable wallpaper and you’ve got a temporary wall treatment! And of course, the Queen of shiplap herself, Joanna, has some right here you can get! You can get started covering an accent wall, or a whole room of walls with this gorgeous removable shiplap wallpaper. Yay!
Shiplap Backsplash
I LOVE the look of a backsplash in a kitchen—as long as it’s done right 😉 And doing it with shiplap style is a great idea! So, grab some of that shiplap removable wallpaper and create a gorgeous backsplash in your own kitchen. I promise, you won’t be able to stop looking at it!
Shiplap Island
Maybe you have a built-in island in your rental—if so, snag that removable shiplap wallpaper again and cover up that baby in shiplap! It’ll be gorgeous 🙂
And if you don’t have an island, but you’d like one, build one! Or find piece of furniture that could work as an island (like a dresser) and give it a shiplap finish. That might mean using that amazing removable wallpaper again, or it could mean actually using wood and paint, creating that shiplap look on your movable island. And again…the best news is that the island will travel with you whoever you go!
Shiplap for Renters
Just because you rent, doesn’t mean that you can’t decorate with shiplap and use it in your home! I hope this post has given you ideas on how you can create a home you love no matter if you’re renting or not! There’s always creative ways you can decorate!
Happy decorating friends!
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