Slat Paint-Ready Sample

Measure your wall width in inches 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. A ten-foot wall (120″) takes three boxes.

Panels butt edge to edge, so nothing is lost at the joins.

A box holds four panels. Slat and Valley weigh about 26 lbs at 94.49″, 30 lbs at 106″ and 37 lbs at 118.11″. Ridge is heavier: about 35 lbs at 94.49″ and 45 lbs at 106″ (Ridge isn’t made in 118″). Those are whole-carton weights, packaging included.

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″.

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.

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 so any breakout lands on the back. A cut edge is raw MDF, so prime it before you paint.

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.

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. Slat and Ridge joins need nothing more. On Valley, a continuous curve shows any step, so fill the join, sand it flush and paint over it.

On Slat, yes. The Slat profile isn’t symmetrical, so every panel must go up the same way round. Turn one and you either butt two slat faces together with no channel between them, or open a channel twice the width of the rest — both show instantly on a painted wall.

Ridge and Valley are symmetrical, so those panels can be turned end for end freely.

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.

Mitre the two panels where they meet, or run a slim trim down the corner and paint it the same color 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.

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.

The face arrives primed — five coats, sanded flat. You paint straight onto the factory face with no priming or sanding. The only prep is filling the nail holes (and the joins on Valley) and priming any cut edge.

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.

We recommend painting after the panels are up. Nail holes need filling, Valley joins need sanding and cut edges need priming, so painting first means touching in every one of those afterwards. Spray gives the best result on all three profiles.

Any interior wall paint will take over the factory primer. Sheen decides how the profile reads: a flat or matte finish keeps the shadow and reads the profile as shape, while the higher the gloss, the more the surface reflects and the flatter the shadow looks. Go for two thin coats — heavy coats pool in the low points and soften the profile. Spray is best on all three; a short-nap roller works on Slat and Ridge; on Valley, cut in with a brush first.

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

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.

Indoor, dry areas only. The face is primed MDF with no moisture protection of its own — whatever resistance the finished wall has comes from the paint you choose — so we don’t rate them for bathrooms, wet areas or outdoors. In a kitchen, keep them well away from sinks, splashbacks and anywhere they will get wet, and prime every cut edge before you paint.

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.

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 — color 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.