ULTRALIGHT Accent is a flexible real wood wall panel with a flat face. Real wood veneer is laminated straight onto 9mm recycled felt, and the face is left whole — one continuous plane of timber from edge to edge. There is no MDF, no hardwood backer and no rigid core of any kind, which is what keeps it light and lets it follow a curve. Each panel is 11.81″ wide. Five panels come in a box and cover 59.06″ of wall width.

ULTRALIGHT panels are 9mm thick in total — about 0.35 of an inch. That is the veneer face and the acoustic felt together, because there is no core between them.

It is the shallowest panel Slats.co sells, which makes it workable on ceilings, in door reveals and anywhere a deeper panel would read as bulk rather than texture.

No. ULTRALIGHT Accent has no MDF, no particle board, no plywood and no hardwood backer — there is no core at all. The wood veneer is laminated directly onto 9mm recycled felt. That is the reason the panel is light enough to handle alone and flexible enough to follow a curve. Slats.co panels with a hardwood core, such as TrueWood and the Solid line, are built differently and suit different jobs.

Yes. Because there is no rigid core, an ULTRALIGHT panel follows a gentle curve as it comes — no kerfing, no steaming and no relief cuts.

It works on curved walls, columns, coves, bulkheads and the sweep of a stairwell. Fix from one end and let the panel take the shape of the wall rather than trying to flatten it first.

20 lbs at 94.49″, 25 lbs at 106″ and 30 lbs at 118.11″ — five panels to a box. That is 5 lbs more than the equivalent slat box at every height, because the v-cuts are what take weight out of a slat panel and Accent has none. You can still carry a box up a flight of stairs in one hand and hold a panel flat against the wall with one arm while you fix it with the other.

Five panels. Each panel is 11.81″ wide, so a box covers 59.06″ of wall width — the widest coverage per box Slats.co sells. By height that works out to 38.75 sq ft at 94.49″, 43.48 sq ft at 106″ and 48.44 sq ft at 118.11″.

Each panel is 11.81″ wide — 300mm. Of that, 11.69″ is flat veneer face; the remaining 3mm is the 1.5mm chamfer along each edge. Because the panels butt with no lip and no overlap, a panel covers the full 11.81″ once installed. There is nothing to subtract for a lap.

Accent has a continuous veneer face: real wood across the full width of every panel, with a hairline 3mm shadow reveal where one panel meets the next, every 11.81″. For a slatted look, ULTRALIGHT Slat has seven slat faces per panel and ULTRALIGHT Wide has broad 4″ slats.

They butt straight into each other. Each panel edge is chamfered 1.5mm wide and 1.5mm deep, so when two panels meet the two chamfers close into a single 3mm shadow reveal, 1.5mm deep, with 7.5mm of felt left intact beneath it. There is no lip, no overlap and nothing to align — push the next panel up tight against the last and the reveal sets itself. It is the same 3mm reveal that runs between the slats on ULTRALIGHT Wide.

Measure the width of your wall in inches and divide by 59 — each box covers 59.06″ of wall width, or 1500mm. Round up, because the offcut from the last panel usually finds a use elsewhere on the wall. A ten-foot wall (120″) takes three boxes. A sixteen-foot wall (192″) takes four. If you are unsure, send us your measurements and we will work it out with you.

With construction adhesive, straight onto drywall, plaster or timber — no battens, no subframe. Screws are not used on Accent: the only break in the face is the 3mm shadow reveal at a join, so there is nowhere to seat a screw head without driving it through the veneer. Run vertical beads down the back of each panel, set it, and press the whole face home. Start from one end, check the first panel is plumb, then butt each following panel up tight against the last. Once two panels are together, a finishing nail can go down the middle of the 3mm reveal to hold the join while the adhesive cures — the head disappears into the shadow line.

No. Accent fixes straight to the wall surface — drywall, plaster or timber — with construction adhesive. No battens, no furring strips and no subframe. That is part of why the panel only takes 9mm off the room. On a curved or uneven surface, fixing straight to the wall also lets the panel follow the shape rather than bridging it.

Yes. At 9mm thick and 20 lbs a box at 94.49″, Accent is straightforward to take overhead. Use construction adhesive and prop or brace each panel while it cures — overhead is the one place you cannot rely on the panel to hold itself while the adhesive grabs. Finishing nails through the 3mm reveal at each join help hold the run up in the meantime. Work along one line so the reveals stay continuous and parallel across the span.

Yes. Cut the veneer face with a fine-tooth blade and the felt with a sharp knife, scoring the veneer first and cutting on the waste side. For height, cut from the bottom so the factory edge stays at eye level. If you have to rip a panel narrower, take it off the edge that will sit in the corner — that keeps the factory chamfer on the visible join.

Mark the opening on the face of the panel, then cut the veneer with a sharp knife or a fine-tooth blade and peel the felt back behind it.

Because the felt is only 9mm and has no rigid core, it cuts cleanly without chipping or blowing out the back. A cover plate sits over the edge and hides the cut.

Yes, but fix into the wall behind, never into the panel. Accent is veneer on felt with no rigid core, so it carries no structural load at all. Locate your studs before you panel, mark them, then run your bracket fixings through the panel and into the stud.

Not the way the slat panels do, and we would rather say so. On a slat panel the grooves open the felt to the room; on Accent the felt sits behind an unbroken veneer face, so sound does not reach it in the same way. Slats.co does not publish an NRC rating for any ULTRALIGHT panel and will not quote one here. If absorption is what you need, run Accent alongside ULTRALIGHT Slat or Wide — same depth, same heights, so the two sit flush on one wall.

Our panels are not fire rated. If a fire rating is required for your project, check with your contractor or your local building code before ordering.

Three heights: 94.49″ for eight-foot walls, 106″ for nine-foot walls and 118.11″ for ten-foot walls. All three are 11.81″ wide per panel, five panels to a box, covering 59.06″ of wall width.

White Oak, Walnut and Grey Oak, each over black felt. Availability varies by height — Grey Oak is currently 94.49″ only. Because the face is unbroken, the veneer is doing all of the work on an Accent wall: it is worth ordering a sample and seeing the grain in your own light before you commit a whole wall to it.

Yes. The face is real wood veneer, not a printed film or a photographic laminate.

Because it is real wood, the grain varies from panel to panel and from batch to batch. That is worth knowing if you are matching an order placed months apart — order the whole wall together where you can.

Shipping is free to the contiguous U.S. on most ULTRALIGHT orders. The exceptions are samples, and 118.11″ panels ordered in quantities of 1 to 3 boxes, where shipping is calculated at checkout.

Order 4 or more boxes of 118.11″ panels and shipping is free. The 118.11″ boxes are long enough to move by freight rather than parcel, which is why the carrier rate shows up on smaller orders.

Most ULTRALIGHT orders leave the warehouse within one to two business days, with delivery to the contiguous U.S. typically inside a week.

Freight shipments of 118.11″ panels take longer and are booked with a delivery appointment. The delivery estimate on the product page reflects the current lead time for the size and finish you are looking at.

ULTRALIGHT is for indoor use only. It is not suitable for outdoors, saunas, or bathrooms with a shower or bath in the same room.

A powder room with good ventilation and no shower is usually fine. Wood veneer and felt both take on moisture, and neither recovers well once they have.

Dust the veneer with a dry or barely damp cloth, following the grain, and run a soft brush along the reveals between panels. No solvents, no wax, no polish and no steam. If something is spilled, blot it up rather than wiping across.

We do not recommend it. The face is a thin real wood veneer, and stain lifts unevenly while paint fills the reveals and flattens the crisp line between panels. If you want a painted finish, the Paint-Ready line is made for exactly that — it ships pre-primed white and is designed to be painted in your own colour.

No meaningful movement. There is no solid timber and no MDF in the panel, so there is nothing to swell or shrink with humidity the way a cored panel can.

You do not need expansion gaps at the seams. Butt the panels tight and they stay tight.

No — plan on Accent staying put. It is fixed with construction adhesive, which is not intended to come off cleanly, and there is no screw option on this panel because a flat face has nowhere to seat a screw head. If you want panels that come down again, ULTRALIGHT Slat fixes with screws that sit inside the grooves: back them out, lift the panels down and fill the holes.

Not especially, and we would rather be straight about it. Accent goes up with construction adhesive, so taking it down again means damage to the wall behind. If you are renting, ULTRALIGHT Slat is the panel to look at — it fixes with screws that seat down inside the grooves, so it comes off again and the patches are small. Check your tenancy agreement on wall fixings either way.

The 9mm felt backing is made from post-consumer recycled PET — plastic bottles diverted from waste and spun into felt. The panels are independently tested to meet low-VOC standards. Slats.co also plants a tree for every panel sold. And because Accent uses veneer rather than solid timber, a given log covers far more wall.

Yes. Individual ULTRALIGHT Accent samples are $3.99 each, and the full sample kit is $30. Worth doing on a flat panel especially — veneer colour shifts under different light, and on a continuous face the grain is the entire surface.

Slats.co is a Southern California company, shipping across the contiguous United States.

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