Beadboard and Shiplap

We decided an easy way to give the house some character would be to use some alternative wall coverings than traditional dry wall. Dani is a real stickler for the whole cottage look, so we found a few ways to bring the cottage look into our farmhouse theme. While about 70% of the house will be drywall, we decided to use bead board for the walls and ceiling in the kitchen and upstairs hallway and shiplap in the living room (horizontal runs) and mud room (vertical runs). Most of it will be painted white but still give the walls some texture or character. Here is a few pictures I found to show the two materials...

Here is the horizontal shiplap, kind of hard to notice, but click on the picture to enlarge...



Vertical shiplap...



White bead board ceiling and walls...



And to contrast that all white kitchen (walls, ceilings, cabinets), Dani has approved her custom island color with the kitchen designer this week... We should have cabinets delivered in 3-4 weeks, hopefully they can go right in!