Chair rail ends mid-wall. Want to paint white below chair rail. HELP!!
Michelle
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Comments (1)This is probably a question better posed on the Home Decorating forum, along with pictures. Also, you might want to break the text into paragraphs so that it is easier to read. Here is a link that might be useful: Home Decorating forum...See MoreChair rail help- scuffed walls
Comments (3)Last fall I up in a 4 inch wide peice of oat stained the same color as my cabs for the same problem. Its worked well so far. Even though my cabs are maple I went with oak because its a very hard wood that can really take a beating....See MorePainting the Paneling Below Chair Rail the Same as Walls Above?
Comments (10)Thanks, all for the photos. Cearbhaill, your photo is closest in terms of showing the same kind of paneling. And I do like the less contrast-y look of having the colors be the same or close to the same. I guess I am wondering about how the paneling will look painted Split Pea green, though. I'm fine with it "fading away" but something in my mind is telling me that paneling painted pea soup green is going to have an unintentionally 70's vibe that maybe I am not going to like... I wish I had a functional camera so I could post a photo!...See Moreto chair rail or not to chair rail, that is the question!
Comments (5)In Postwar houses with the same kind of evil, rough, sanded-plaster walls that we had when I was five, a chair rail may protect chairs' finish or upholstery from getting shredded, but generally, a chair rail's protection is intended to work the other way around: not to protect the chairs, but to keep the paint unmarked & the plaster un-gouged from the chairs being knocked into or dragged along the walls. I'm just sayin'. But chair rails protect the walls from more than chairs. There are also kids, and while plain walls with smooth finishes were all the style thing in 1965, they're also a lot harder to maintain in pristine condition than walls broken up into separate sections with moldings, which moldings allow you to freshen the walls without too much effort. In our family we had four boys & assorted pets, and in no house we ever lived did the place look as dingy & dodgy as our 196Os ranch with its long, narrow corridors of mint green & aqua & pink. Up above, the brand-new walls were immaculate, but from doorknob height on down, it was always a mess. Worse, because there was no convenient cut-off place--as there would have been with a chair rail--you couldn't just touch up the wall where a say, the heel of cowboy boot had gouged the plaster during a corridor ambush of the posse by a gang of bad guys, or where an errant Big Wheel had gone out of control & left a dirty scrape all the way down the hall. Add to those occasional incidents the continual finger-dragging that little kids seem to do by nature, and the the general grimy area that you get when you combine narrow halls & large dogs, and you can see the logic of having a molding a few feet above the floor. But our house was crisp & Modern and it didn't have what were considered superfluous, old-fashioned moldings, so it was either paint the whole wall, end-to-end, floor-to-ceiling, or do nothing & just leave the marks & smears & chipped plaster. My mother, being an early proponent of Energy Conservation, chose the latter, with the result that that place always looked like hell. When we moved into a big old Craftsman Style house, with a dark oak dado that stood chest high in the hall & the corridors, my mom no longer had to worry about telltale dirt & scuff marks on the walls. Not, of course, that she ever did. Anyway, stylistically speaking, chair rails may be out of place in a Modern house, but for simple practicality, they're hard to beat....See MoreRachel Lee
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