Victorian Style Wood Paneling

This will create geometric dimension and can easily dress up lackluster areas.

Victorian style wood paneling. The most popular color. As money and time permitted and as the family grew. Formal victorian rooms of the late 19th century demanded treatments that began at the baseboard and rose to the ceiling like a classical entablature. Heritage panelling is a simple wall panel that can be used in many homes yet the style is very reminiscent of a victorian window shutter design and has been replicated from original mouldings.

If this is the approach you want to take with panelling you could opt for more modest victorian pine panels that require a mix and match approach. By then wood paneling had become too expensive for all but the wealthiest of homeowners. Butt and bead style panelling with each panel at 800mm high and 600mm wide. Of period properties that exist pre 1900 victorian properties are the most plentiful.

The panels can also be used with original skirting and dado rails if they are already in place as the panels can be designed and fitted with only a 9mm. Genuine old wood panelling is made out of a number of separate solid wood elements and cannot be sold as one individual off the shelf item. When dad and mom or grandma and grandpa excitedly and gratefully bought their 1 000 square foot house after 1945 the basement and attic and maybe even the second floor were unfinished. Give your walls extra style in the kitchen by color blocking wood paneling and then added a tile backsplash over it.

Where there is low stock of wood wall panelling available what you do find can sometimes still be used to replace missing panels in a larger run but are often repurposed as something else such as. This is part of what made the house a starter home and couples without children were fine with just having the space they really needed. Most of these fell out of favor when varnish manufacturers. The effort of creating this bespoke wood panelling is no doubt greater than using an mdf wall panelling kit and is a better solution where your panelling has to fit in with other elements of the room is replacing damaged panelling or will be put into a room with awkward dimensions.

There are 586 victorian wood trim for sale on etsy and they cost 22 66 on average. Choose a satin paint in a victorian or heritage colour.