My home's design style has slowly changed over the years and because of that, I am slowly redoing some of the walls I built years ago. This bedroom wall being one of them. By the way, skim coating is a pain in the rear. Why? Bc of the mess!! I taped everything off, wore a shower cap, respirator mask, and safety goggles, and still came out looking like I got blasted with a white powdery dust. Ugh. Btw... this new style will be on my website called "1.5" double slat board & batten" (top and bottom