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Wainscoting Progress

March 8, 2012 by Bethany Sy

So despite the looming illness in our family, we’ve been slowly plugging away at the wainscoting (board and batten) in the living room! It helps when you’re excited about a project. Makes us want to get it finished so we can bask in the glory of all our hard work! Having furniture all over the middle of the room is also good incentive to get things finished! Here’s where we stand right about now. The board and batten is up, mudded, sanded, primed and painted white. We love the dimension and architectural interest it adds to this room.

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Please consider ignoring the beige door that leads to our studio. Fact is, I FORGOT (believe it or not) to paint the door white when I painted the trim white back in the day. AND AGAIN when we painted the wainscoting. I’m a natural blonde.

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We’re still planning on adding some crown moulding to the top to make it feel more finished, and to provide the added benefit of a little shelfy thing for me to put picture frames and such. Kinda like this:

We’ll be getting to that this weekend. And you might be wondering about the buttery yellow wall color? It won’t be that way for long. I’m not sure of the color yet, so we’re holding off for now. Plus, I don’t want to get going on that before we address this issue:
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We got a little sloppy with our white paint job because… WE’RE GOING TO TAKE THIS WHOLE WALL OUT!!
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These old houses have lots of character and all, but the floor plan seems so closed off. And we want to open things up between the living room and dining room! This is going to be a big messy job, but we’ll be sure to bring you along for the ride!

About Bethany Sy

Nick and Bethany Sy are the creative free-spirits behind DIY/Lifestyle blog, Reality Daydream. They recently purchased a historic mansion and have been documenting the ups and downs of renovation and making this home their own... all while sharing tips and tutorials along the way! When they found themselves in the trenches of infertility, they started a journey that would prove to be their most important DIY project ever, and have 3 beautiful girls to show for it. <3

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    Jae says

    March 20, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    Great job!

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    Beautiful Haven says

    March 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    I love this. We are planning on doing this in our dinning room. We also have textured walls and were debating on covering the walls or just framing them like you did.

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    pearlspaisleysandpetticoats says

    March 8, 2012 at 11:12 pm

    I love it. It looks fantastic. We eventually want to tear out walls and open up our place, but unfortunately we have to put in a beam first and in order to do that we need to replace the roof. It will be a while for sure.
    great job.
    Alexis

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    Anonymous says

    March 8, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    And I will babysit if needed for that project…or any project that requires your full attention for a period of time.
    Deborah

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    Dutchie says

    March 8, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    Looks great! you really make me want to purchase a router….. PS how do you determine if its a load bearing wall?

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    Mandy says

    March 8, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    Looks great! You will love your new open space once that wall is down! Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

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    Lori says

    March 8, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    You will not regret it. We also took a wall out of our old farmhouse between the kitchen and dining room. Opened up the whole first floor. Excited to see the progress.

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