Interior Hardwood Walls
Posted on Monday, March 7th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Paint knotty pine????
My house is older and made with knotty pine for interior walls. I want to paint because of hardwood floors(and dark walls makes it feel like a cave), but many older people love the walls(because you can’t find the stuff anymore) and want me to let them be.
Overall, how do you think it would affect the value of the home; painted vs. non painted????? (once painted, color could be changed, but tongue and groove pattern would make it impossilbe to return to original wood finish.)
You could sacrifice a couple of inches of floor space and just put up some lathe and dry wall over it if you are concerned about conserving the integrity of the paneling but as far as I am concerned pine is a very homely wood and doesn’t need to be showcased.We have a wall of it in our basement and I find it depressing. I would think twice about painting over a beautifully grained wood like oak or walnut but pine is a workhorse wood not a decorative wood and people used to paint it whenever it was necessary to construct furniture with it.
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