How To Cover Wood Panel Walls

Allow the primer to dry a full 24 hours before painting over it.

How to cover wood panel walls.

Alternatively you can decorate wood panels with bookshelves drapes or art to minimize their appearance. Paintable wall covering paintable wallcovering is available in many patterns and textures manufactured to hide cracked walls old paneling and cinder block. Start by watering down your paint then you ll want to brush on immediately wipe. You can either paint over your panels or hang wall liner over them.

Wall liner is an extra sturdy wallpaper that will cover but not hide the grooves in your paneling. Whitewash your panels this technique allows you to keep the woodgrain texture of walls but not the deep color. One of the easiest quickest fixes for wood paneling. The thicker and more patterned the wallpaper the more it will cover up any faults that lie underneath.

Apply a thin coat of primer with a roller. Use a brush to fill in any grooves. Sheet metal a common way to split walls in homes that prefer the rustic look is to use recovered or new sheet metal to cover a lower or upper half of a wood panel wall. When painting for wood paneling choose either a stain blocking latex primer or an oil based primer.

Wallpaper over wood paneling a fairly quick and easy fix for unwanted wood paneling is to wallpaper the area. Hgtv star chip wade shows you how to modernize old school wood paneling with paint for more follow the hashtag rachaelrayshow. Start with a good. It is a wall covering that is.

Next tape and fill the seams and nail or screw heads as you would any drywall job. If the paneling doesn t have a lot of lines you may be able to wallpaper directly over the surface. Before painting paneling use painter s tape to mask off your mouldings windows doors and ceiling.