How can I cover and modernize a 1950's home with knotty pine walls?
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Natalia Sinc
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Paint the paneling and add some crown molding.
Wow that is one OLD house!
Natalia, here are some videos that give you several choices. I hope you like at least one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=redo+knotty+pine+walls
I am assuming you mean 1950,s house. There are paints that you can buy if you are looking for a cheap makeover. I pulled all mine down and I had to replaster the walls to hide all the damage it made.
I had a basement like that, we painted it. Here's a link:
https://theapplestreetcottage.blogspot.com/2015/01/white-is-bright.html
I had that in a house in Morehead, MN. I marked off a chair rail height. Glued a red and white heavy cotton yardage to the upper portion, painted the lower portion in a high gloss red and covered the horizontal join with flat molding.
It was bright and cheery for those long, dark crossed -the -River-From -Fargo,ND winters. The grooves did not show through the cloth.
I stripped off the cloth at a later date with no problem.
Have fun in lightening that paneling.