According to Chris Lewis :
According to grodenhiATgmailDOTcom :
I think I'll explain a little better (I should have explained better
from the get go). The walls are two 8 foot lengths of interior
walls. Both walls have baseboard forced hot water baseboards. These
baseboard appear to be originals (ie old). I'm hoping to replace/
cover yellow and green ceramic tile 1/3 up the wall with sheets of
beadboard topped with a chair rail. I'm willing to put a few hundred
dollars into this project (either doing it myself and only buying
materials) or paying a hanyman if less than say 3 or 4 hundred bucks
(which I doubt). Removing the wall board (down to studs) would
probably require removing the baseboards, that may start getting above
my head. We're only going to be in the house another year or two
(starter home) and with the real estate market how it is we don't want
to put major money into it, just freshen up the look.

Frankly, even if you don't pull the drywall, pulling off the baseboard
heaters and repainting them (if they look old) is going to have a pretty
high return, given how low the "investment" on doing that is.

Oops, never mind that part. Didn't notice until now they were hot water
baseboards.
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Chris Lewis,

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