How To Deal With Wood Paneled Walls

If your room already has dark wood flooring you don t have to cover it with wall to wall carpeting to brighten the room.

How to deal with wood paneled walls.

Who says the style has to be relegated to walls. Wood paneling that s made of authentic organic wood can be saved with sanding and polish. This will create geometric dimension and can easily dress up lackluster areas. Give your walls extra style in the kitchen by color blocking wood paneling and then added a tile backsplash over it.

If the dark paneling makeover includes lightening up the space sanding the original dark varnish off of the wood and applying a lighter stain can change the entire feel of a room. Chip showed tina a dark blue shade called north sea get the most creativity out of your wood paneling by starting with some spackle. Any dust dirt or oily fingerprints can prevent the paint from sticking well to the wood paneling so start by thoroughly washing the wood paneled. Grab some drywall compound at your local home improvement store then use it to fill in the distinctive cracks and lines of the wood paneling.

Clean the wall paneling with diluted tsp. The raised pattern and texture makes it a great cover up for old wood paneling. Small doses photography by michael wiltbank. In the jungle room or the den if you want to be so boring as to call it that we kept the original wood paneling.

Instead purchase a light colored area rug that covers most of the room s. That glossy polyurethaned heavily grained medium colored oak paneling that went into houses some 15 25 years ago everywhere has us all ready for a change. However budget and seeing a friend s updated 70 s paneled walls in action helped to change my mind and give it a whirl. Afterward sand prime and paint the wood whatever.

I m right there with you on that one. I will be the first to say that my initial instinct when i saw this space was to rip all the paneling out. After the wall covering is hung paint it in a color choice that will enhance and renew the decor. Light washed wood is the perfect backdrop for art in this seaside connecticut home.