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Why You Should ALWAYS Paint Paneled Walls and How to Do It!
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Bright Green Door
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Recently we moved into a beautiful house that was built in the 70's. Although many updates had been made for some reason they paneled walls were left untouched.
The living room has no lighting and the dark planked walls were making the room feel even darker.
As much as I LOVE the new bright white look, I decided to leave the trim and window trim natural wood. If you've ever considered painting dated paneling it will be a lot of work but in the end it will be well worth it! To see other ways we are updating this house head over to my blog and home tour!
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Published January 18th, 2016 12:05 PM
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Drd4223999 on Feb 21, 2016This turned out so great! Lots of work for sure. I would consider painting the fireplace too
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Bright Green Door on Mar 07, 2016@Drdyson1204 Yes! I think I am going to paint it, I just want to be REALLY sure first!
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Susanroy36 on Mar 05, 2016Love how your room looks. Painted paneling looks "cottage" or "lodge" and can really add to the texture of the room. Someone asked if you could paint "fake" paneling -- you can! I live in a 1976 mobile home and I "filled" my paneling grooves with sheet rock mud, and smooth it best I could after it dried. I then primed the entire wall and then sprayed texture (out of cans). Painted pretty color and had WALLS! No one could believe it began as paneling. My neighbor saw it and went home and used the mud to cover her cement wall with a light coat and then sprayed with canned texture too, and voila'. Go for it! p.s. you can find primer in any color -
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Bright Green Door on Mar 07, 2016@Susanroy36 WOW! I'm glad it worked out so well! I had bad fake paneling in our first house that I wish I would have done that to.
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