What sheen paint for bead board wainscoting in bathroom?
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Comments (6)acountryfarm - i love the pics. i was thinking about putting bead board on ceiling as well but didn't know how it would look. yours is beautiful. i also have wainscoting around kitchen walls and am considering in dining and living room as well. your home so far looks beautiful. thanks again....See MorePainting Bathroom Wainscotting...what color, what vanity?
Comments (2)I lived in a bathroom like yours for 20 years, the dark beadboard on the bottom and linen white above. Also had the oak cabinets. After Katrina when we started to update as we'll be selling the house, I first painted the upper walls RH Silver Sage (BM Gray Whisp), then I painted the beadboard white. We are going to replace the lower cabinet with a white vanity when it comes time to remodel the entire house for sale. I can't tell you the major difference in makes in having that beautiful silver sage with white in the bath. It's amazing. I'd send photo's, but it's not finished because I just got as far as painting and we never finished the molding yet so it's not very pretty!! Believe me when I say, a color at the top and white at the bottom will be so much nicer. If you replace your cabinets and mirror to white it will be striking. There was a lady who had just such a bath that was stunning, but her posting was very old and the forum deleted it so I can't refer you to it. However, there are some other folks on this board who have posted photo's with beadboard. If you go to the decorating forum and ask for people to post their photo's, they will. Good luck. Can't wait to see it finished....See MoreBead-board bathroom - any ideas?
Comments (9)Thanks for the feedback and ideas. The varnish idea is intriguing; I think I've seen similar applications and they end up looking very shiny and not a match for the paint. This is not so terrible, but would be a bit of a different look. Are there any varnish-type products which would have a more neutral finish? Also do you think I'd need to varnish the ceiling as well to protect from condensation, or only on the walls which would be receiving direct 'splashes'? We are leaning towards keeping the tub, and retrofitting it with a shower. The idea of a hand-held European-style shower is very appealing; we're wondering if maybe a ceiling-mounted curtain ring would be sufficient to prevent splashes if the shower hardware were somehow mounted inside the curtain, maybe from a bar mounted to the ceiling? We did something similar to a clawfoot tub in our previous house - link added to show what that may look like. It would be a tricky install since the curtain ring would probably need to be mounted at the same angle as the slope of the ceiling. We would probably just leave the current tub faucet set in place and add another faucet set that operates just the shower. There's not really an economical way to create space for a separate shower, changing the footprint of the room is off-the-table for us at this point. Here is a link that might be useful: clawfoot shower system...See MoreIs there bathroom tile that looks like beadboard or wainscoting?
Comments (26)For a guest bath, the thing that will be missing is the frequency of repeat use that allows the skin cells and soap residue to build and not be addressed. As long as you have good ventilation, and the grooves are thoroughly cleaned with a soft brush following a visitor’s brief stay, you should be fine. It’s only should this turn into an everyday shower that you’ll run into issues. If that possibility exists, then the cleaning aspect may become an issue. Any surface, even glass, that doesn’t have the soap and skin cell residue removed, and has moisture remaining on it after the shower, can grow mold from that food. Ventilation helps a standard shower to dry out. The grooves in a design like this will be problematic from both a cleaning and a moisture aspect, and won’t easily dry at the bottom. The moisture is the medium for mold. The food for it is the detergent and skin cells. The solid surface shower itself is the inert petri dish. Mold won’t grow inside the material, or damage it. It can be cleaned off of the surface and be good as new. This is why I mentioned towel drying the grooves. It interrupts the cycle, until the food source can be removed....See Morejessicaml
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