How To Turn Panelling Into Walls

This was a super easy solution to renovating this room but just took some patience.

How to turn panelling into walls.

You could do exactly what i did to a wood paneling room at my mom s old house. Turn the wood panels into regular walls. Removing fake wood panels can be tedious and expensive. From paneling to board and batten.

Basically fill in the cracks of the wood paneling where the boards separate sand and paint. If you d rather nail the panels to your wall after you ve arranged and numbered them skip to step 7. Repeat until walls are covered. Like many designs and styles from the 70s fake wood paneling s popularity did not last leaving many homeowners stuck with a wall or surface that looks like a poor combination of wood and plastic.

Position and press the panel into place. The final step is to glue then nail moulding into place with finishing nails and cover with wood putty for a perfect finish. As i studied the paneling i thought about our options. Faux or fake wood paneling was a very popular wall design in the 1970s.

Create stripes or lines in the panel walls by painting the paneling grooves a different color than the paneling slats heinemann suggests. Tap in place with a rubber mallet. Do this by taking your knife with some spackle on the end of it and at a slight angle press the spackle into the grooves and then wipe clean the entire length of the. Even if you love the look of wood paneling across an entire wall or around.

Nothing screams the 1970s like a room covered in wood paneling. The paneling only took up a third of the walls. I love the look of board and batten. Use your spackle knife and fill the panel s lines and nail holes with the medium or heavy weight spackle if using making sure to press the spackle into the grooves firmly.

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