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Originally Posted by Zeke

You didn't need to buy bead board to do that. You need to be going to a real lumber yard with your ideas. You can put a small chamfer on each board and then just butt them. No need for shiplap although that would be a nice way to do it.

One more thing, since you are going horizontal and have vertical stud nailing, you don't need plywood, that just helps even things out a bit.

To do this on an economy scale, I might have bought fence boards and staggered joints. A good scarf joint is hard to see.

I think you are tying to do this with far too few tools. At least you have a miter saw?

BTW, that 3-way molding joint at the top in the pic is fun. Not.

Yep, 12" sliding Dewalt Miter saw.

The walls of most of the rooms that aren't TnG are vertical studs on 24-ish" spacing with solid shiplap from 4-5' down and then every other shiplap board for the top half which makes this more of a pain in the rear. And now the shiplap has 5/8" drywall on top of it.

This is a partial view of one of the walls. The bottom was a single board, nearly 12" wide as a "baseboard." Drywall sat on top of that board and was nailed to the shiplap. The bottom half of the wall (except where the baseboard was) was solid shiplap. The top half of the wall was every other board-ish shiplap.


And the wife wants to get rid of the 1/4 round molding. I think I've tried to do one of those joints before. Yeah, huge pain.