Post #705749 by Trailerpark Tiki on Sat, Jan 25, 2014 10:35 PM

I put a roll on a section of my wall last year. I bought a very thin piece of wood and used glue to attach the matting. Then I turned it upside down and weighted it down to set the glue. When I attached the matting and wood backing to the wall, I used nails to secure it to the wall and the nail simultaneously fastened the matting tighter to the wood backing. I covered most of the nails with the bamboo border. If the matting wasn't flush, I would just add another nail there to flatten it out. My lauhala matting has tiki decor on it, so the nails are hidden. To cover the uneven parts of the matting, you can use bamboo split in half as a border or you can use a router design on a 1x4, burn it, stain it and clear coat it for a border. I have bamboo borders on the top and bottom with tiki style planks on the sides.

There are more threads here that show how to make faux bamboo, router polynesian designs into wood and how to burn and finish tiki style planks. Buzzy is an artiste with a router.

Good Luck
Trailerpark Tiki