Woodworking or Woolgathering

[digitS']

Okay, @majorcatfish , gardener, chef, cabinet-maker ... wise, compassionate, magical authority who serves as mysterious and benevolent guide.

You have your panels, your rails, your stiles. Could you make the interior walls of a room that way? Are there relatively inexpensive materials to do that in an attractive and functional way?

Could we live in wardrobes and be content with our existence?

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Good work, major. Ya done good, but then you already knew that.

 

[bobm]

Okay, @majorcatfish , gardener, chef, cabinet-maker ... wise, compassionate, magical authority who serves as mysterious and benevolent guide.

You have your panels, your rails, your stiles. Could you make the interior walls of a room that way? Are there relatively inexpensive materials to do that in an attractive and functional way?

Could we live in wardrobes and be content with our existence?

Steve

Steve, yes you can remodel any room into a wardrope given one's skill level, proper tools, materials,stain, paint, etc. ... to be content with it depends on your income as the wife will want to fill it with much more clothes, and shoes that will blow the budget. Ask me how I know !

 

[digitS']

Well, @bobm , I was thinking about the same "style" of panels and stiles sort of covering the interior walls of an entire room.

I really think that this was more-or-less what wainscoting amounted to. I lived in a home like that as a kid but the upper part of the walls were covered with wallpaper ... dark green wallpaper. .. with huge, pink flowers ..!

My curiosity in this relates back to learning that lofts were being remodeled for habitation with bathroom/kitchen/utility "pods," built elsewhere and installed. Well, why not any room. A bedroom or living room "pod" would be like a large cabinet! Or, it would just be an ugly, old box.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Steve my mother did that in almost every public room of house. 70s paneling halfway up wall, chair rail ,then wall paper to ceiling. At first wood paneling was wood colored, then at some point they started coloring it. To this day my parents dinningroon has blue wood paneling half up the walls.

 

[Smart Red]

I have dozens (hundreds?) of panels if you want to stop by and pick them up. They would look great on a wall, IMHO, but here they just sit and sit and sit in the basement getting moved from end to end once in a while.

 

[Nyboy]

Paneling and wall paper are great at hiding really bad plaster walls. Grew up with it in every room almost. today The only wallpaper I have is in guest bathroom. I like to change wall colors to much for paper.

 

[so lucky]

I'm not that crazy about wallpaper but the house we live in had hideous wallpaper when we moved in, in the main bathroom, one bedroom and the kitchen. Unfortunately, the builders, in an attempt to cut corners or out of ignorance, put the wallpaper up on unprepared drywall. When I tried to remove it, it tore out chunks of drywall.
I repaired the bathroom walls and repapered. The other rooms, I had to paper over paper, even having to paint one of the walls first due to the pink on black background floral paper that was there.
I do like wainscoting and textured walls that look like old Italian villa plastering.
(but not together)

 

[Nyboy]

Wall paper used to be very expensive only the rich could afford it . Victorians loved it so much it was often used on ceilings. I can not image looking at same walls for 10 years. I like to paint a room about every 2 years for change.

 

[Nyboy]