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Panelling In Wood For Decor
If you are planning a new home, or are remodelling an old one, consider an old-fashioned idea that is as good to-day – wood panelling – one of the easiest ways to gain effect and conceal a fault in your home.
Wood belongs just as happily with conventional or modern decor. Some of the loveliest old homes have dining rooms and libraries with walls of gleaming wood panels, and some of the most attractive new homes use both vertical and horizontal timber panelling to give texture interest to rooms.
Wood is warm and mellow and takes kindly to both soft and bright colours. Use panelling to make a visual partition (that doesn’t reach the ceiling) of a too-long and too-high room. It will break it up well and give you a new angle wall against which to place furniture.
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