What makes shiplap shiplap is how each plank is prepped for installation.
What is shiplap wood used for.
Traditional shiplap has a rabbet or groove cut into the top and bottom which allows the pieces to fit together snugly forming a tight seal.
Or use the weathered wood to create a built in bookshelf.
Shiplap likely gets its name from a style of shiplap that was once used to make ships.
It originated in harsh climates.
A little light internet research reveals that shiplap is a kind of wooden board that s often used for constructing sheds barns and other rustic buildings.
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.
If you nail plain wooden boards to a wall and call it shiplap that s not quite accurate.
Genuine shiplap is a specific type of wood plank used to create exterior siding for barns sheds and historic house says john mochelle a new york city architect.
Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences barns sheds and outbuildings.
Shiplap is either rough sawn 25 millimetres 1 inch or milled 19 mm 3 4 in pine or similarly inexpensive wood between 76 and 254 mm 3 and 10 in wide with a 9 5 12 7 mm 3 8 1 2 in rabbet on opposite sides of each edge.
The same overlapping joint that makes true shiplap tight and weatherproof in a house made for a water tight ship too.
Joanna uses natural wood shiplap as wainscoting in this home s living room.