Wainscot

Reply to: Yes, please! I like this bathroom. Simple, calm colors, like the vertical stripes.

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Reply to: I, too, love beadboard - the tongue and grove kind, not the kind that comes on a pre-formed sheet and is really paper. If I never again see a shiplap wall, I will feel blessed. SO overdone and rarely done well. What you do need to realize is that finding beadboard that is clear and has NO knots, will be difficult and very expensive. And if it has ANY knots at all, it must have multiple coats of BINS (a shellac-based primer) put on it prior to painting it. If it doesn't, the knots will bleed through and make stains. With new wood, even with BINS, you may have the occasional pop-thorough of the sap in a knot. I made this mistake on my sun room ceiling about a year ago. I had no idea the wood would not be clean and knot-free. Well, now I had nearly $500 worth of beadboard boards, which had been painted and which the sap was coming through rapidly! I should have made the contractor just "eat" this, but instead had him do multiple coats of BINS and then paint. I still have 2-3 spots on the ceiling that have come through over the past year. So, when it was time to do the ceiling of my front porch, I bought Azek PVC beadboard and then had it painted. It looks very, very good, will need rot, and no problem with sap and knots. I would highly recommend using this for your porch roof. Beadboard on an interior ceiling is often used in summer cottages from the early 1900's. It was left unpainted and also totally covered the walls. It was maintenance free in unheated summer houses where moisture would have caused paint to peel. It would cost a fortune to do today in clear wood. And it would look like a Michigan summer cottage.

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Reply to: This room is vaulted so no cove crown but a pretty good pic of 9 inch base and 6 inch casing. Doors are 8 ft This is one of the upstairs bedrooms - 6 inch casings and cove crown, also 6 inches. For comparison, we went with 4 inch casings on these small windows to blend with B & B. This doorway was also ripped down for the tight space.

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Reply to: My house is really not formal and will not be when it is finally furnished and decorated, but it is traditional. The Amish craftsmen that built my stairway also designed and built my wainscoting. He did a really good job. I didn’t know what I was doing. He designed everything. Let me know if I can answer specific questions. We are not even fully moved in yet although we are living her, so don’t expect much. A few pics.

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Reply to: I have my wainscoting installed exactly as you’ve described....none on the first floor, and only going up the stairway and on the second floor landing (and not in any of the upstairs bedrooms). It looks perfectly fine.

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