Any suggestions on updating den walls that are that dark 1970's panaling, without removing.?
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If you get a small bucket of drywall mud and fill in the slots or lines in the panneling and use a high quality primer such as killz before you paint it will look like a normal wall. quick , easy , and in expensive. Good luck hope this helps
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go to home depot they can tell you. i know there are some easy to install panels as seen on t.v.
go to home depot they can tell you. i know there are some easy to install panels as seen on t.v.
You can paint the top or bottom portion of the wall and do a chair rail molding in between the wood color and the paint!
My mother did this and it turned out wonderful. Only thing is that the paneling can be dry and it took several coats of paint. We think now that if she would have went with a colored paint that it wouldn't have taken as many coats of paint!
They have stuff that clicks together like pergo, but for walls and ceilings. It looks like real pine or oak panels, I saw them at Home Depot, but I don't think it's that cheap either. Anyway, you could go over your paneling most likely, just like pergo goes over floors.
If the wall paneling are stained and not painted, Mean Green Degreaser or Cleaner will remove all grease, grime, laquer, clearcoat and stains and restore the wood paneling to its natural state.
You can cover it with material. Or just part of it and make an accent wall. Leave the moldings, etc. and cover the wall only. It will brighten up the room and is inexpensive. It's also easily changed. I use material lots of times because I get tired of the same stuff. I even have my accent wall set up on curtain rods (decent looking wood ones) mounted just above and below the molding and as close to the wall as possible, so I can change it easily as my mood, color scheme or seasons change. If you want it more permanent just put it up with a staple gun. You won't see the staple if you keep them as close to the edges as possible.
I have this type of paneling in my house. I have had a professional painter tell me that if I lightly sand the paneling, and clean it with a non-oil-based cleaner, I can paint it. I am in the process of painting my living room tan, and it looks great. A friend of mine painted all of her panelling, and the only problem she had was in the bathroom . . . and that was because she didn't clean the walls throughly before painting . . . and the paint blistered and peeled.