Board and Batten Wainscoting

[stevenplane]

Couldn't find anything on it in a search. I'm wanting to do a board and batten wainscoting in a breakfast nook with plate rail. Anyone done it or have suggestions how I could.

Take it easy, I'm still pretty new.

Thanks.

[lbuttery]

Steve:


There are many threads about this with downloads etc.


Try your searches again for "batten" or "wains*" or ...


Lew

[WendyWelton]

Lew,

I see that you suggest this a lot. It can be surprisingly hard to find what you want using search, as well as time consuming when you're under-the-gun.

Steve,

Method 1 -

Select the room. In the room dbx, go to the wall covering tab - the settings are fairly self-explanatory. Materials are on a separate tab. Note that wall coverings are flat - no depth. But, it's a good quick-and-dirty for studying whether horizontal emphasis is even what you want.

to get some depth:

Method 2 -

Select room. Right click. Make Room Molding Polyline. Then assign on Moldings Tab and Materials Tab. You'll want to play with the settings to see how it stacks them.

A Room Molding Polyline differs from just a regular old Molding Polyline in that it knows to break at doors and windows.

Use any available molding. You can shape them any way you need. For instance, for a beadboard wainscot that sticks out 3/4" of an inch, but is 36" high, I use the square handrail and just change the dimensions. There's a Windsor style window casing that I like for an elegant chair rail cap.

Materials -

Don't forget to look in unusual places. For instance - the thing that looks most like beadboard to me (I actually think it really is, and is misfiled) is under Board and Batten siding! Check out the woods, the siding, even the roofing. Look all over.

[lbuttery]

Wendy:


I agree the search could be better, but I do a lot of them and the threads can be found.

I make this suggestion when I know there are threads out there, the key is to use words that aren't common.


Searching on board will probably get way to much, a search on batten will get better results.

Searching on "wain*" is better than doing the entire word and the * acts as a wild card. This helps with mis-spellings etc.


When a few theads are found then use some keywords from those threads to find other related threads.

Like Louis, I'm trying to reassure them that there are threads out there and that the should "try again".

If I find the threads for them then they haven't learned the "ways".


Lew

[dshall]

A Room Molding Polyline differs from just a regular old Molding Polyline in that it knows to break at doors and windows

Nice tip Wendy, thanks

[VHampton]

She's the coolest.

Great tip.

[lbuttery]

She's the coolest.


Yep, it's Wendy !!! (as sung by the Association)



Who's peekin' out from under a stairway
Calling a name that's lighter than air
Who's bending down to give me a rainbow
Everyone knows it's Wendy

Who's tripping down the streets of the city
Smilin' at everybody she sees
Who's reachin' out to capture a moment
Everyone knows it's Wendy

And Wendy has stor-my eyes
That flash at the sound of lies
And Wendy has wings to fly
Above the clouds (above the clouds)
Above the clouds (above the clouds)

[Flute]

And Wendy has stor-my eyes
That flash at the sound of lies
And Wendy has wings to fly
Above the clouds (above the clouds)
Above the clouds (above the clouds)

Who's tripping down the streets of the city
Smilin' at everybody she sees
Who's reachin' out to capture a moment
Everyone knows it's Wendy
[Repeat And fade]


Happy BDAY again, Wendy


Lew

[Allen Brown]

Hi Steve, look under "Millwork>Wainscoting":

[ARCHIJEF2000]

I'm wanting to do a board and batten wainscoting in a breakfast nook with plate rail

Steve not everone realises that wainscote panels are derived from cabinets, they are just defined with a small depth.
When you click on a library panel a base cabinet dialog box opens, with all its manifold adjustment possibilities.

It might be better to just copy a cabinet from your kitchen and reduce the depth, it will produce a "panel"of the same style.

[WendyWelton]

Jeff & Allen,

Excellent tip - thanks much. The polyline method deals well with the top rail and baseboard, and the infill only if it's not panels.

This tip fills in that gap.

[ChiefChris]

Yep. That's the way I do wainscote panels - cabinets.

I set the depth to 1"....and make it a panel with no hardware, to whatever width I need...and repeat.

delete the baseboard in the room spec dbx and apply the base mould to the cabinet...also apply chair rail moulding profiles to the cabinet. Just keep the space above and below the panel on the face of the cabinet large enough so that the profiles of the mouldings don't overlap the panel.

I've attached two images of wainscote done this way....