Adding Wainscoting and New Paint to Our Home
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The Cofran Home
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My husband and I recently added wainscoting and painted three rooms in our house. We did work in our dining room, living room, and family room – we had wainscoting installed and painted, and painted the top wall of all three rooms in just under a week. Whew! It was definitely worth all the effort we put in to it - we absolutely LOVE how it turned out!
We started by removing everything from our walls. Then we spent the better part of 2 days moving furniture, covering furniture, taping, spackling and sanding.
We then had the wainscoting installed. We had a day in between the wainscoting and painting (cue awkward comments from our visitors about how they “love the colors we picked….”) YIKES! Don't worry... we are not leaving our walls a striped disaster!
Our neighbor is a professional painter and was able to spray the wainscoting white for us. It was SO fast and easy - I loved his sprayer! So AMAZING!
We painted the top walls ourselves with Sherwin Williams Light French Gray.
Here's the living room reveal!
And here is our dining room reveal! Be sure to click on the blog post below to see the complete three room makeover!
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Published June 21st, 2016 1:41 PM
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Carolyn Black on Aug 25, 2016I love it! I was debating about doing this in my dining room and you have help me decide to do it. THANK YOU
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Rosalee Maxwell Lyons on Feb 04, 2019
This was beautiful. Classic design. Well done!
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