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WOOD WALLS FOR PERFORMANCE In a home of any architectural style, wood wal
paneling makes a perfect, long-wearing backdrop for furnishings. Shown here is west
coast hemlock, cut with a patterned joint. It has been painted white to compliment deli
cate antique appointments. Permanence and natural beauties of wood walls, whether paint
ed or finished clear, add prestige and resale values to a home.
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WOOD MAKES FOR WARMTH This attractive bedroom owes its warmth to the use
of rough-sawn wood. The walls are made of inland red cedar and the plank and beam
ceiling of Douglas fir. Western pine region lumber was used for the trim rather than mould
ings and this contributes to the comfortable informal feeling. Note particularly the beam
stock used to frame the window.
Lumber Gives Warmth
In Bedroom's Renovation
A bedroom should be a warm,
inviting room and one of the best
ways to inject this feeling is with
an abundant use of lumber panel
ing. This may be left in a natural
shade with a clear finish, colored
with one of the increasingly popu
lar pigmented finishes, or painted,
though this last alternative natural
ly hides much of the beauty and
charm of wood.
If you plan to use a clear or
pigmented finish give thought to
whether you want a wood with
small tight knots, such as found
in lodgepole pine or Idaho white
pine, or the larger, distinctive knot
formations found, say, in pondcrosa
pine. If you want no knots you
should select a clear grade in the
wood of your choice.
Many people like their paneling
topped with a clear finish and, if
you prefer this, you naturally will
want to give attention to the color
of the wood as well as the knot
pattern. Very light woods include
Engelmann spruce and Idaho
white pine. If you are after the
dark reddish tones that so many
people like, you might select in
cense cedar or inland red cedar.
The former is particularly nice if
you are planning built-ins for the
bedroom, because this species will
impart a pleasant fragrance to
your closets and drawers if you
leave the wood unfinished. Other
western pine species suitable for
paneling and built-ins are sugar
pine, larch, white fir and Douglas
fir.
Wood can be used in many ways
in a bedroom In the form of lum
ber paneling it is excellent for
the walls and ceiling. Your wall
paneling may give total coverage
or, particularly in a small room,
you might use it as wainscoting
with a patterned paper above. A
flat, paneled ceiling might match
your walls or you might change
the mood by putting up a plank
and beam ceiling in the same wood
or a similar species.
Lumber really can do a beautiful
job for you when it comes to built
ins for (lie bedroom. It is ideal for
closets, wardrobes, dressers, cup
boards, cabinets, and shelves. If
you are handy you can build these
yourself or you can have a profes
sional do the work. In either case,
you will end up with custom
p'anned storage which is both
handsome and practical since it
creates a coordinated atmosphere
and makes the most of your space.
When you use lumber and lum
ber paneling you can do so in any
number of styles. Your bedroom
may be as formal or informal as
you wish. It depends upon the way
you design the room and handle
your wood. A clear grade of lum
ber will tend to give a sleek so
phisticated look, while knots help
give a rustic or country feeling.
The finish you choose will have a
major effect on your room, too.
A natural wood stain will give a
traditional air and a pigmented fin
ish a modern touch but, no mat
ter how you use your lumber or
what finish you pick, the room
will have, an inviting homey feel-
naause you have used wood.
Good Tasi e Exemplified
In Modern Wood Panels
For generations, householders
have chosen wood wall paneling
as a backdrop for their rooms' fur
nishings. Like sterling silver on the
dinner table, wood on the walls is
considered by many as the mark
of supreme good taste.
Today's homeowner prizes wood
Wc-lls for a number of reasons.
For one, they guarantee perma
nence no worrying about future
sessions with the paperhanger or
piiint bucket. For another, wood
finished naturally, as most panel
ing is these days, produces a neu
tral background which compliments
any color scheme or furniture style.
It milady's taste in decor changes,
she can replace furniture without
t;e added expense of redoing walls
This adds a premium to resale
v.ilue of the home, as well, for
prospective buyers ore certainly
mere attracted to homes in which
they have a minimum of redecor
ating to do.
Paneling comes In many styles
and species. The leading favorite
is tongue-and-groove paneling of
one of the creamy beige softwoods
like west coast hemlock. The
tongue-and-groove panel boards fit
together with nary a joint show
ing, creating a sleek, satiny foil
for furnishings.
Sometimes paneling is used to
create a special effect or to em
phasize a certain type of decor.
For instance, paneling of wide
boards cut with a definite joint
pattern are very much in keeping
with decidedly Colonial or period
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furniture. Again, naturally finished
wood is usually preferred, especial
ly if it's delicately grained hem
lock, but in some cases, painted
paneling fits the bill. If the room
features antique gold in any quan
tity, especially in mirrors or in
pieces which stand very close to
the vails, flat white paint or glazed
coici might set them off better
than would natural wood tones. And
of course, painted wood was much
in style during Colonial times.
Very contemporary decor, on the
other hand, can be accentuated
with paneling which literally has
been lifted off the abode's exterior.
Making quite a splash in the field
of decorating is the idea of us
ing rough-sawn western red cedar
siding. Tongued-andgrooved for
snug, jointless fit, the unsurfaccd
cedar panel boards introduce a
world of delightful texture. Usual
ly Ihey arc finished with clear rez
or with rez which is lightly tint
ed to bring out even more vividly
the cedar's rich autumn coloring.
Special treatments might be ac
corded accent walls. A wall of
white pocket Douglas fir, finished
cither clear or with metallic paint
brushed into its open pores, gives
an exotic effect.
There is paneling to suit every
taste; its choice should receive
careful consideration.
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