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What floor with dark wood panel walls?

8 years ago

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My hallway needs redecorating... the walls are covered in dark wood paneling, looking quite nice. The ceiling has dark wood beams, in between of which there is white/cream paneling. The floor at the moment is a PVC foil in some kind of orange, it's hideous. I think that parquet floor might not be the best idea, all that wood in different colors probably won't be pleasing to the eye. Any ideas?

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emmarene9
8 years ago
What is the flooring in the rest of the house?
courtneyfan
Original Author
8 years ago
Hello Emmarene, thanks for answering. The rest of the house has wood floors, sandy-light color. I'll try and upload a photo of the hallway later, it's an oblong room, on one end there's the door to the garage, on the other end there's the door to the patio. Large windows on one side, though altogether it's quite a dark room. Also it's the only way of getting to the back garden, so I need to take the trash cans and lawn mower through there... definitely need a robust floor.
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Hi again, and thanks! Yes, one of our 'maybes' is to do a sort of Edwardian type thing and do the chair rail about 30-32 inches down from the ceiling, which we've done in four other rooms in the house, one my office, one the grandbabys' nursery upstairs, one our breakfast room, and one another upstairs guest room, with the contrasting paint below/paper above. In the nursery, my husband did a treatment with 1 x 4's and inner moldings under the chair-rail that went up about 5.5 feet, that so mimics the look of Victorian/Edwardian nice paneled wainscoting (complete with tall baseboards) that you have to look CLOSELY to see the inner panels are sanded down drywall under the paint. (You gotta love HGTV). Plus we did paint that whole lower wall with a paint you'd use over wood, a nice semi-gloss. Back to this 1970s paneled room....so currently, I'm leaning towards taking the 'recipe' that someone gave me earlier in this post for the glaze/paint/water, test the matching bathroom paneling till I get the color that works, then do the lower 2/3 of the walls in the big room, and then on the top -- either texturize and paint or do wallpaper liner plus a nice 'Edwardian' looking wallpaper. Whatever we do, I will post a pic when done! You all are a great source of ideas and help - thank you! Keep those ideas coming! We aren't going to start this till we complete our master bed/bath, so we're a month or so off!
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