Walls & Ceilings

Shiplap is simply name given to one of the various ‘profiles’ used when milling Southern Yellow Pine. A more familiar profile tongue and groove is flooring, while Shiplap, V-Groove and ‘Gap’ siding the most popular profiles for the wall. Bayou Rustic offers our customers Clear and Knotty versions of our Southern Pine including Shiplap, Car or Gap Siding, the most popular versions and seen all over home improvement networks.

V- Groove, Car siding, Ship-lap, bead board are all examples of Southern Pine walls and or ceilings. THE INTERIOR and exterior pine is used because of its DURABILITY period. It is easy to work with and looks amazing, floor wall or ceiling.

 Car siding and Nickel Gap

Car-siding, also known as a V-groove, has always been a best seller. V Groove performs well inside because of how easy it is to clean compared to a true shiplap. Shiplap (laps over). Cars-siding named for the railroad cars they once lined fit with v joint profile. Gap siding, nickel or penny connects with a profile providing the illusion of gaps, which experienced DIYs create using S4S. S4S, or smooth all four sides, refers to a board planned ‘smooth’, i.e., without a profile.

V-Groove Popularity

Today interior designers might tell you that V-groove adds soul to a room. V groove has become so popular a design style has been centered around it, “Shabby Chic”. Compared to bead board V-groove is less ornate and has “cleaner” lines. This, in my opinion, allows it to work in more modern setting. Painted V-Groove can be used in large spaces, or you can finish it to suit your imagination.

What is bead board

Old-fashioned beadboard cladding consists of individual, generally narrow, boards with a routered “bead” edge on one side and beveled edge on the other. In Louisiana, they called this New Orleans bead board, but it is really the same as the stuff in North Carolina or Montana.