Looking for ideas!

We have a large living room with a high, sloping celiing covered with dark 70's wood panels.

Can anyone suggest what can be done with it? I dread having it taken down and I also fear that painting it might look awful. Can plasterboard be fitted on top? Or more pleasing real wood boards?

Kate

Kate Williams wrote:
Looking for ideas!

We have a large living room with a high, sloping celiing covered with
dark 70's wood panels.

Can anyone suggest what can be done with it? I dread having it taken
down and I also fear that painting it might look awful. Can
plasterboard be fitted on top? Or more pleasing real wood boards?

Kate

Typically these are pine. Although they look lovely in early years,
they do darken too much, and end up not looking good. I would try wood
bleach, a light wood ceiling is a lovely thing, far nicer than PB. Yes
you can paint it white, but they always look fairly second rate like
that.

If you must be rid of it, PB over it rather than remove, then someone
who appreciates them can do a proper job on it years in the future.

Another option is to lime it. This works pretty well too, and might be
your best bet.


NT

On 27 Jun 2005 17:00:29 -0700, wrote:

Typically these are pine.

Another option is to lime it.

How on earth could you lime a softwood ?

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 27 Jun 2005 17:00:29 -0700, wrote:

Typically these are pine.

Another option is to lime it.

How on earth could you lime a softwood ?


Lime *effect* it then?

Andy Dingley wrote:
On 27 Jun 2005 17:00:29 -0700, wrote:

Typically these are pine.

Another option is to lime it.

How on earth could you lime a softwood ?

Liming paste, wipe it on, wipe it off... is there a problem with that
plan?

NT

On 1 Jul 2005 12:06:51 -0700, wrote:

Liming paste, wipe it on, wipe it off... is there a problem with that
plan?

Hardwoods are limed. The (usually white) liming paste gets wiped over
and catches in the vessels exposed at the surface. No vessels in
softwood, so liming doesn't work. It might wipe clean off, it might
stick and leave an overall haze, but you aren't going to get the usual
"tiny white spots" effect.

There are a few hardwoods that won't lime successfully too (lime is
one), but I can't think of any softwood that could be limed.

Andy Dingley wrote:
On 1 Jul 2005 12:06:51 -0700, wrote:


Liming paste, wipe it on, wipe it off... is there a problem with that
plan?

Hardwoods are limed. The (usually white) liming paste gets wiped over
and catches in the vessels exposed at the surface. No vessels in
softwood, so liming doesn't work. It might wipe clean off, it might
stick and leave an overall haze, but you aren't going to get the usual
"tiny white spots" effect.

There are a few hardwoods that won't lime successfully too (lime is
one), but I can't think of any softwood that could be limed.


Yes, the effect is different, its not white spots. But it does work.
What you get is an overall white effect, while still able to clearly
see the wood and its grain, ie the level of whiteness varies over the
workpiece according to the grain.

I've been looking at some limed pine today. It just looks like a light
milky wood, none of the usual darkness of pine. Its a great way to
treat pine ceilings, which become overly dark over time.


NT

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Andy Dingley wrote:
There are a few hardwoods that won't lime successfully too (lime is
one), but I can't think of any softwood that could be limed.

Memories. My mother in the '50s bought a limed oak bedroom suite courtesy
of her COOP divvy - she said. Father disagreed. ;-) Grey with white grain,
and beautifully made with mahogany linings. I remember just how well the
drawers slid and the doors closed. When she had to go into a home some 40
years later it was still in perfect condition, but even the Sally Army
didn't want it. So it went down the tip.

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