I have pine floors but they were way too much work! I loved the idea of wood floors at first but after having to sweep several times a day it got old fast. I wound up putting textured carpet in my office (the mauve room with the styrofoam ceiling) and the living room. My office looked like this before the mauve walls and with the plywood ceiling The room with the beadboard ceiling is the one I was describing above with the vinyl tiles that look like ceramic. It is not the kind that is in Lowes or HD though. these are a beige tile with a dark brown edge. It looks like ceramic tile. I got it from Habitat restore. It was not preglued. I have not been able to find it in any stores. Here is a photo of it. I took this photo because when we first put the tiles down we used the wrong glue and it seep out all the cracks. we had to use a different glue. the tiles look so much better in real life. I think I am the only person who has used real color paint on their paneling! In the first photo above I had them put one of the tiles on the machine to make that color. it came out a plain beige very similar to the color that was already there except I changed it from flat to sating finish In my livingroom I have this color, white ceiling tiles (the kind often used in dropped ceiling) it will be replaced soon and now carpet on this floor My kitchen paneling is blue but I think I am going to repaint it a nice gold color All of my walls looked like this before painting. it was so dark and drab!! I painted the floors like this (floor paint and a few coats of poly) can you tell I am a little off the beaten path? LOL!

We have stained beadboard next to the mixer. As long as splashes are wiped away right away, they come off easily. I'm not a terribly vigilant cleaner but I am pretty good with taking care of the mixer splatter. I've found no problem with the painted beadboard backsplash in the rest of our kitchen. We have 4" of stone backsplash (matching the counters) before the beadboard starts. The strip of stone is the only backsplash behind our sinks since the windows come down quite low. We have stainless steel behind the range. Except for the baking area, we do most food prep on a peninsula so maybe that's why cleaning the beadboard hasn't been an issue....at all. We have beadboard in our powder room also. We get more shrinkage there, near the radiator, than we do in the kitchen. I love the beadboard and any gapping between boards is in character with our older farmhouse. Our beadboard has been up for 6 years and I don't remember pricing. The stained beadboard in our kitchen is part of the cabinetry and it is true beadboard. Dh put up the backsplash beadboard and it was the kind that came in long strips about 6" across (2-3 beaded units across). He bought it at a big box store. We didn't need a lot of it so it wasn't very pricey (sorry, I can't remember a ballpark amount). He primed all sides. We put 2 coats of paint on the fronts and that was it. We never had a vent hood before our reno. It's made a huge difference on the amount of gunk that accumulates on the backsplash.

Hmmm, I think that I'd try to keep it out of that hallway, if confining it to one room. Do you feel that it would be too cottagey to have beadboard everywhere? For a low cost solution, you could try beadboard wallpaper (I had to try it myself before becoming a believer) in my DD1's room - easy to remove should she decided to change the decor (no doubt that will happen as she's only 5!) In my first house, we put up a chair rail around the whole finished basement area and painted the upper portion a different colour from the bottom. Another possibility? Maybe a combo of the two (beadboard in the art nook, continuing on as a chair rail for the rest of the area)?

Your ideas are possibilities, Funkycamper. We talked about doing glass over the beadboard, too, but I do wonder if it would look funny.(?) I also wonder how successfully we could blend "real" beadboard with ceramic beadboard. That's part of why I was considering transitioning to a totally different medium behind the range, so that it wouldn't be real and fake right next to each other. Thanks for your vote of confidence! I revel in all of the possibilities, LOL, it's making a "final" decision that's tough! Thanks for sharing the tile you got, iroll. Since you did the beadboard only behind the range, I'm curious what you did elsewhere. I don't think crackle snaps or pops for DH, unfortunately. I found some gorgeous (or so *I* thought) crackle tile by Enser. DH response was "Oh, yuck! What's wrong with that tile?" So much for that, LOL. Your question of how much the eye "needs" is a good one, Rococogurl. I don't know. I love color, and I like neutrals, too. I'm not sure how much my eye, or the eyes of my family can handle. I also know that I love to change things around, so committing to a color feels a bit constrictive. I get you on the difficult appliance choice. So glad to hear that your final decision is made! You must be relieved. I was talking to a friend whose son works in China. He said, "Mom, life is so much simpler over here!" She visited him and saw that they don't have much kitchen to speak of, they wash their dishes in the bathroom. She questioned his idea of "simplicity", but he then explained how if they need a fridge there are only 2 choices at the store. A big fridge or a little fridge. That's it. There is no agonizing over which thing to choose. I don't care for the medallion/mural in the picture I shared, either. I didn't associate it with a certain era, necessarily (says the girl who just put her 1997 Chevy van to its final rest...) but I think I'd tire of the same picture back there, day in and day out. My daughter and I were talking about how we can't wait to turn the calender to see the new picture each month because we're tired of the old one. So, no stone murals for this household! : ) I don't mean to be a tease! ; ) Let's put it this way, right now I feel like I'll be as surprised how this kitchen looks as you will be, if that's any consolation. I plan to post pictures, no worries! Thanks for sharing the picture of your beadboard tile combo, diymom79. Both my mom and my MIL have the vinyl beadboard in their bathrooms and love it, too. MIL has hers with the wide plank look. It's very pretty. I feel like I'm at a beautiful beach cottage when I'm in there. : ) I picked up some fabric samples today from a local store. They are quilt fabrics, so I don't know if they'd be a good choice for curtains, but they do give me an idea of how the colors work with the cupboards. Fun! I like them both--Oops. One is light colored background with blue flowers, and the other one is a black background with pink and cream flowers with green leaves. Maybe I could make both summer and winter curtains?? I need to go to the city to find decorator fabric, but the weather isn't being very cooperative for that endeavor. So, if I must, I'll stare at the cotton samples for a few days. Here's a picture, so that I'm not teasing, LOL. This post was edited by laughable on Fri, Jan 30, 15 at 23:10