How to hide imperfections on wood paneling?
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Our home has wooden boards as our walls. In places you see the joins and no matter what we try to patch them you can still see the imperfections. In places you see ceiling joins as well. What is the best way to hide joins please?
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Hi Pat. Are you painting the wooden board walls? If so then you can hide the joints by filling them in with spackle/drywall mud. Let it dry completely then lightly sand to a smooth finish. You may need to apply several coats to fill in deep gaps. We lived in an old home that had paneling in the kitchen. Rather than take it all down we did this and it worked beautifully. Good luck :)
I agree with Tere in Precept: Why go through more Work than necessary?
Buy $15 of Spackle, $10 of DAP putty and about $7 of 3M sandpaper to prep the entire for the Paint job and be done with it for 12 to 20 years.
Maybe create some faux 2.5 inch Trim with an Acrylic Paint applied to Sheet Masonite cut to 2.5×72 and Glue that to the Panelling at a reasonable height of 48" to 54" from the floor.
You'd be amazed what Faux Trim can do for a Wall.
Pat. Try OLD ENGLISH, stain,. it comes in a bottle. They offer light and dark. Put it on with a rag. Rub it in and let it sit 4 hrs, then wipe with paper towels, until the towels come clean. Aloha!
The walls are painted a light grey, almost white - would a stain not cause blotches to the paint and highlight the joins rather than hide them then?
Can you provide some pictues ?
Hi,
Either Sand down to remove imperfections or Spackle then sand or Stain bloc then paint with a Matt Paint as that is non reflective.