We recently framed perspectives using moldings and casings, so let’s continue our tour of interior architectural detailing with ideas for walls. Wainscot, panels, shiplap, picture moldings and other components add dimension, character, warmth and texture to walls. With the right tools and a (little) piece of know-how, most of these treatments can be implemented by newcomer DIY-ers without too much cost or heartbreak.
Steven Miller Design Studio, Inc..
I love how the paneling doesn’t interrupt the hazy scenic painting in this dining room. It is almost as if the art can’t be contained by the framework — a theory I believe applies to a lot fine art, but most of it doesn’t have the luxury of really spilling out of the framework!
Chambers + Chambers Architects
Obviously, there is nothing wrong with drawing within the lines. Wall panels offer a superb opportunity to create a frame within a framework that calls attention to some distinctive piece — or may lift a bit that may not seem important until it’s accompanied by a grand demonstration. In this layout, the painting and sconces are definitely defined as important elements in the essay.
maison21
If you are dying to use a certain wallpaper on your home but the cost is just too high to justify (or you have got a fabulous classic specimen and not enough of it to cover a complete wall), considering papering within the paneling. If you don’t have paneling, you may easily create your own with simple wood strips nailed into the wall. Or, if you are a renter and can’t apply paper to walls, inexpensive eyeglasses surrounding your favourite wallpaper and just hung on the wall as a painting will do just fine.
DIY: Wallpaper Goes Mobile
Envision living
If you are not necessarly interested in framing art but want to present some measurement to plain walls, wood strips would be your answer. Paint them the exact same color as the wall for a sophisticated, monochromatic look, or create them pop by painting them white or another contrasting color.
Feldman Architecture, Inc..
Wainscoting — paneling (frequently on the lower part) that encircles baseboards and chair rails — provides any home a dose of casual-cottage coziness, even when it’s exceptionally elegant and complicated, as in this board and batten instance by Feldman Architecture, Inc.. Wainscoting was originally applied to walls as a kind of insulation to mitigate chilly breezes and dampness. It comes in the kind of raised panels, recessed or flat panels and beadboard.
Glenn Gissler Design
This entry hall indicates a taller wainscot treatment. Its height brings the eye up and makes the room feel somewhat taller. Interestingly, employing wainscoting close to door heights in a space with ultra-high ceilings really humanizes the scale, bringing a warmth to which might be cold, cavernous spaces without sacrificing any of the outstanding structures we get with vaulted or double-height ceilings.
Blue Tangerine Art
As with paneling, wainscoting may be an ordinary woodworker’s DIY project with cheap wood pieces and a little sweat.
We frequently see wainscoting and walls using contrasting paint colours, but painting it the exact same color as the wall comes with a wonderful effect. It is far less active and will help spaces with low ceilings texture a little greater, where the white matches the color.
Frederick + Frederick Architects
Among my favourite wall applications is shiplap, essentially wide-plank wood implemented horizontally or vertically. It just cries breezy, beach-y casual.
If you are lucky enough to have natural pine walls and ceilings, then don’t do something. If you are feeling like adding a little texture and warmth to bare walls, then bring it all on!
Cravotta Interiors
Shiplap can be painted, also, though I would recommend hand-brushing. If you roll up the paint on for pace, immediately follow that up with hand painting to smooth out the sticks, which just look unnatural about the wood and conceal the true character of the material.
Studio Marcelo Brito
This shiplap remedy is undeniably nautical (that the sailboats in the foreground add to the feeling). The overlapped program gives the walls a great dose of measurement and architectural interest. And as you can see, it still allows for hanging art.
Melaragno Design Company, LLC
I adore this salvaged ebony-stained pine paneling, which gives me an outside living feeling I love. If I could, I’d make every room in my home really open to the skies. Impractical, I know, but this is in my own fantasy home, okay?
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