Ridge Paint-Ready Sample

The face arrives primed — five coats, sanded flat. You paint straight onto it. No priming, no sanding, no filling. Roll, brush or spray whatever colour and sheen you like.

MDF, with the profile routed into the face and primer over it. A PVC film is bonded to the back, which keeps a panel this thin rigid enough to handle and hang.

Slat is a square-cut profile — a 1.11″ flat face beside a 0.55″ gap, cut 0.14″ deep. Ridge is a run of convex half-rounds repeating every 1.31″, cut 0.29″ deep. Valley is the inverse: a 1.18″ concave scoop with a 0.13″ flat peak between each one, cut 0.31″ deep. Slat reads as clean lines, Ridge as soft relief, Valley as deeper shadow.

No. Every profile leaves the same 0.06″ of board beneath the deepest point of the cut, so a deeper profile starts from a thicker board. Slat finishes at 0.20″, Ridge at 0.35″ and Valley at 0.37″.

Measure your wall width and divide by 47.2″ — that is what one box of four panels covers. Round up, and order a spare box if your wall has openings to cut around. Panels butt edge to edge, so nothing is lost at the joins.

Yes. A handsaw, jigsaw or circular saw all work — it is MDF, not hardwood, so no specialist blade is needed. Cut face-side up with a handsaw or jigsaw and face-side down with a circular saw to keep the primed edge clean.

Yes. There is very little board behind the deepest part of the cut, so the panels bend horizontally and vertically — enough to wrap a column, an archway or a curved feature wall.

Construction adhesive on the back of the panel, pressed straight onto drywall, plaster or timber. Finishing nails hold each panel while the adhesive sets, driven into the groove or trough where the shadow hides them. No battens or subframe to build first.

Each profile is cut so the panel edge falls where a shadow already is. Ridge and Valley panels are cut at the bottom of a notch or scoop, so two half profiles close into one whole one across the join. On Slat, one panel ends on a slat’s top corner and the next begins at the groove floor, putting the seam in the shoulder line.

You can, and it is often easier — spraying a panel flat on trestles beats working into a Valley trough overhead. Leave the cut edges until after fitting, then touch them in once the panels are up.

Any interior wall paint will take. The primer is the bonding layer, so the choice is about how you want the profile to read: a flat or matte finish softens the shadow, a satin or eggshell sharpens it. A brush reaches into a trough or groove where a roller skips.

Yes, as often as you like. Clean the surface, let it dry and paint over it — no sanding back or re-priming.

Yes. Use construction adhesive and finishing nails as you would on a wall, and support each panel while the adhesive sets.

Yes. The profile runs the length of the panel, so hanging them horizontally turns vertical fluting into horizontal banding. Plan your cuts from the same end of each panel so the pattern stays in step across the wall.

Lightweight items can mount to the panel itself. For anything heavy, find the studs behind the panels and fix through into them — the panels are a finish, not a structural layer.

Mark the opening on the face, drill a starter hole inside the waste and cut it out with a jigsaw. Test-fit before the adhesive goes on. Standard outlet extenders bring the box forward to sit flush with the new face.

Mitre the two panels where they meet, or run a slim trim down the corner and paint it the same colour so it disappears. An exposed end can be filled and sanded, then painted with the rest of the wall.

Yes. Panels come cut for 8ft, 9ft and 10ft walls, so most rooms take a single run. For anything taller, stack a second piece and keep the horizontal join at a consistent height across the wall, where it reads as a deliberate line.

They are an interior panel and the face is primed MDF, so keep them away from direct or standing water — not a shower surround or a splashback behind a tap. Elsewhere in the room, seal the cut edges when you paint and they will behave like any other painted wall surface.

Not really. They go up with construction adhesive, which will take the wall surface with it when it comes off. If you may need to remove them, fix a plywood backer to the wall first and mount the panels to that.

No. These are decorative panels with no acoustic backing. The profile breaks up a flat wall visually, but it will not change how a room sounds. For acoustic performance, look at our felt-backed slat panels instead.

Yes. A single profile is $4.99, or all three come in the Paint-Ready Sample Kit for $12.99. Worth painting a swatch before you commit a wall — colour behaves differently once it is sitting in a shadow.

Shipping is free to the contiguous U.S. on most panel orders. The exceptions are samples and 118″ panels ordered in quantities of 1–3 boxes, where shipping is calculated at checkout — order 4 or more 118″ boxes and shipping is free again. Alaska and Hawaii are calculated at checkout.

We’re a family-owned business based in Southern California, and all of our panels ship directly from our SoCal facility.