Keep wood? Or drywall it?
Would you keep the wood and paint it? Or convert window wood to drywall?, leaving other side wood?
TV will go on inside wood wall.
Thinking of adding electric fireplace at the current drywall end.
This is a Tri-level home. This is the only room with Wood paneling in the house. It is the family room on the garden level. We plan to add a steel cable railing and cut down the wall by the stairs. We plan to have white trim and BM Classic gray wall thorugh out. Floor will be updated to a White Oak 6".
Here is youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5_7qEC8i6_4
Here is house listing: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/745-W-Fir-Ct-Louisville-CO-80027/13232712_zpid/
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Comments (8)Just wanted to follow up on what we have done in case this is of benefit to anyone else with a similar query: The drywall guy says only mudding over the panelling will not give great results, so we do need the drywall. He recommends 1/2 inch drywall as 1/4 may leave an uneven surface. His costs were similar with or without the panelling (around $5500 to sheetrock the whole house -- 2600 sq ft of floor space). In renovating almost the whole house, the contractors have pulled some sections of the panelling off in every room. All 3 bathrooms have been gutted back to the studs. In the other rooms, some have large sections of panelling removed and some have smaller sections. We can see insulation in all of the exterior walls and some of the interior walls. No evidence of any rot in any of the wall studs so far (and really all of the wet areas, incl kitchen have the panelling off), so we are going to assume the studs that are still hidden are OK. We are having a whole-house rewire and the electrician is just cutting out the panelling wherever he needs to get access to wiring. I don't think this has made much difference to his costs. Once the plumber and electrican are done, the drywaller will go thru and sheetrock everywhere. We need to watch for the trim around windows and doors. However, we prefer a modern/minimal style and so we are just going to take it all off and he can either wrap the drywall into the window recesses or use a special J-channel (i think thats what he called it) to make a clean edge level with the window recess. Oh, and on a side note, the inspector with his fancy infra-red moisture-detecting camera missed a rotten subfloor under a leaking shower and missed that the entire subfloor of an add-on office room is rotten through. Very unhappy about this. But pleased with the outcome of the wood panelling dilemma! Thanks for your advice, everyone....See MoreKeep plaster walls or replace with drywall?
Comments (17)This is in response to the suggestion of taking the plaster walls out in order to insulate. I offer the thought/question for discussion as much as expert responses but with a strong bias toward leaving the plaster intact because drywall is inferior. (Just compare the cost of new drywall to new plaster if nothing else.) At a time when my ex-husband was teaching college classes in thermo-dynamics and consulting for a contractor who built super-insulated, passive solar houses that could function without furnaces in cold climates (by way of expert references,) what I retained from some conversations was that the best insulation is dead air. e.g. when the pink stuff isn't fluffy, the trapped air is pushed out and insulation value lost. So I have thick plaster over wood lath interior walls and thick stucco outer walls in a 1913 house in a very cold climate (Central Minnesota, planting zone 3.) Whatever insulation was ever in the walls is most likely packed down in the bottom of the stud bays. The outside walls are cold to the touch in the winter and cool the rest of the time. On the other hand, it takes at least 24 hours for the house to lose its heat/cold - change interior air temp - to match the outside temp, even with some windows open. With the thermostat set at 65 during the day and going to 55 at 9 p.m. (very comfortable for me,) the radiators heat up in the morning and stay cold the rest of the day as long as the outside temps are +0. In short, I vote to keep the plaster and don't worry about wall insulation in a mild climate....See MoreDrywall repair/Orange Peel Paint/Wood Slats
Comments (8)Covering over the drywall may be your best option. To do this, locate and mark all underlying studs with a stud finder before starting and use longer drywall screws to go through the extra thickness. You could then hire a taper to tape and finish the drywall. They probably would not charge much for just the wall. Or you could try the taping yourself - if you do, go to the site below - it is written for beginners. Keep in mind that you will have to tape the joints and also the corners where the wall meets the other walls and ceiling. Here is a link that might be useful: Drywall Taping...See MoreTransitioning between vaulted wood ceiling and regular drywall ceiling
Comments (8)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md>Thanks PPF for the suggestion! I appreciate someone actually giving me some practical advice. I will pass this on to the contractor. Wow Jan, you’re quite the positive one aren’t you?! I wasn’t asking for your opinion on the overall design of my house. I’m quite pleased with everything I’ve done in there! And I AM friends with a great electrician, but he hasn’t installed any of the lights in the living room yet. Nor has he finished installing all of the kitchen lights. Plus, I took this picture in the middle of the night last night so it looks much darker than it actually is in there. Thanks for your thoughtful input though. Patricia, it looks like flooring because it is flooring! I couldn’t find any “ceiling” boards that I liked or were wide enough, so we got creative. It’s acacia wood and it looks beautiful. I just wanted help with a trim piece, not redesigning/deconstructing my room!...See More
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11 days agoCongratulations on your new home. Very exciting for you.
I am so glad that I went to the real estate images. I was so overwhelmed by the unpacking that you have going on it was hard for me to see the space.
Here is a photo from the listing for others chiming in.
It is amazing how a professional real estate photographer with a bright flash bulb can transfor a space making it look both bigger and brighter...
Are you continuing the wood floors into the space with the same type of wood and color? If so I think maybe the wood needs to come down. Its hard because the photos look much better than the photo you showed us above.
This will wind up being a great space when you are done. A beautiful space with a big bowl of popcorn, snuggling while watching a great family movie.- 11 days agolast modified: 11 days ago
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You have some great ideas... Here is the other photo you speak of. You wrote...
We plan to add a steel cable railing and cut down the wall by the stairs. We plan to have white trim and BM Classic gray wall thorugh out. Floor will be updated to a White Oak 6".
A few more questions.. All new floors? Or only this space? I highly recommend all the floors match if you can swing it. Kitchens and bathrooms might be okay without the same floors but a space can be transformed by all one type of flooring. In your case wood floors throughout.
What is your trim going to be? Wood or white? Are you going to have the wood floors you put in be a similar color to the wood trim you have in the photo?
Gray? Are you sure? With that warm wood you are thinking for the floors you might be interested in a greige gray color that works with warm and cool tones. It can feel like gray in one light and other times a slightly more warmer color. A cool gray might fight with your warm space. When I say warm I mean like this image below.
See how the floors are a warm color but the wall are a cool almost neutral gray color
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This view taken from the top of stairs really miniaturizes the room. Its an 8 foot ceiling? It looks like there are hardwood floors under the carpet like this, right?
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