Decorating With Shiplap: Ideas From Fixer Upper

Since shiplap was commonly used as insulation in farmhouse-style homes, check under the existing wall surface before starting a renovation project. In this home featured in HGTV Magazine, designer Joanna Gaines found shiplap walls hidden under crumbling wallpaper. She peeled off the dated pattern and reinvigorated the room with a fresh coat of white paint.

Joanna uses natural wood shiplap as wainscoting in this home's living room. You can also create a taste of rustic style by adding wooden box awnings over your home's windows, like Joanna Gaines did in this Craftsman-style living room. Or, use the weathered wood to create a built-in bookshelf.

Complement rustic shiplap with industrial elements, like this sculptural shelving unit made from plumbing pipe and pine planks.

Here, painted shiplap walls add subtle texture to this open and brighten this airy living room.

To create a cottage-style space that features all the texture associated with shiplap, just reach for the white paint. The painted white shiplap in this sitting room cohesively combines with the white trim seen throughout the rest of the room.

Chip and Joanna found original shiplap paneling under dated drywall in this Craftsman-style home, but you can purchase salvaged or new pine boards to create the look in your home.

Here, a portion of shiplap wood siding has been uncovered, painted white and framed to elegantly extend the fireplace mantel.

Bright white paint adds a modern touch atop the pine ceiling, and reflects light around the open living room.

For an more contemporary look, Chip and Joanna Gaines paired painted shiplap siding with thick, streamlined wood shelves behind this built-in shelving unit.

Rough-hewn, unpainted pine boards overhead draw the eye up to the vaulted ceiling in this bedroom designed by Chip and Joanna Gaines.

Chip and Joanna Gaines decked out this master bathroom with new gray paint and a natural wood shiplap accent wall.

Joanna Gaines added a cozy eating area to this kitchen by lining the pale walls with long slats of vertical shiplap and a coat of matte black paint.

This home office has a rugged and masculine feel, thanks to the barn door hardware and sliding shiplap panel Joanna Gaines created to frame its window. The stain she used on the wood here, matches the stain on the ceiling beams throughout the home.

White elements, like the tub, countertops and accessories, keep spaces featuring rough-hewn wood siding feeling light and airy.

Joanna Gaines framed the pair of triangular windows in this bedroom loft with a shiplap wall. The wall begins on the first floor and carries the eye up the stairs and all the way to the dramatic roof.

This staircase is the first thing visitors see when they enter the front door. The diagonal pieces of whitewashed shiplap on each step pair beautifully with the horizontal panels on the wall and create a one-of-a-kind focal point leading your eye to the top of the stairs.

Joanna Gaines was thrilled to find intact original shiplap in this classic cottage’s living room, so she gave it a coat of white paint and chose window and door frames that would double down on its traditional texture and dimensions.

As Joanna Gaines demonstrates in the Magnolia House B&B’s carriage-house kitchen, modern appliances can feel right at home with more rustic elements. Here, she used wide shiplap planks to give the stainless-steel range an Old World feel.

Because the white shiplap planks on this foyer’s walls and ceiling carry into the sitting area Joanna Gaines created beneath the staircase, it looks like it’s been there all along.

In a matching shade of creamy white, the wide shiplap planks on the walls of this bathroom complement the narrower subway tiles in the shower stall.

Create a dreamy bedroom with stacked rough-hewn pine planks and a coat of powder-soft grey paint.

Draw attention to the natural whorls and waves in pine paneling by deepening their tone with a treatment like the one Joanna Gaines used in this rustic-industrial kitchen.

Create a kids’ space that’s both crisp and comforting by paneling the surface behind the sleeping area with a wall of dark shiplap.

Joanna Gaines refreshed this hearth by painting its brick bench seat bright white, then carrying complementary shiplap panels to the ceiling and behind the built-in shelves beside the window.

To give a bright bathroom just a hint of depth, panel the lower portion of the room with shiplap and add a coat of paint that’s slightly darker than the one you’ve chosen for the walls.