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We all dream of timber panelling. It's not Downton Abbey mate, just paint it with Dulux Diamond Matt Trade and thank me later :)
Seriously though, wood panelling is a big undertaking. Kudos if you have the time/money to do it.
Chalky paints used to be the rage in the late 90's, problem in hallways is people touch them with their hands/luggage etc. and it shows in hallways because you look at the walls from acute angles.
I've used earthborn paints before, nice finish. I would maybe start out with some Dulux super matt emulsion (trade again). Something with lots of solids that will help to even out the colour difference. I would never just paint that wall though, just personal taste. Probably I would line it to protect the plaster which from experience is not very durable without paper on top.
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Probably I would line it to protect the plaster which from experience is not very durable without paper on top.
Interesting you say this, the plaster in the place I've moved into marks really easily, not helped by pale and not particularly hard wearing paint.
I was thinking that just harder wearing paint would mainly solve it, lining it hadn't occurred to me. Is is standard lining paper you'd use or something else? Cheers
aggi
Stripped the walls in my hallway, still needs a thorough going over to remove all residue from the ancient woodchip paper. No idea what’s going on lower half, looks like someone has painted on wood effect, generally though it’s pretty solid throughout, I can live with the odd scratch or nick in walls being 115 years old, so I’m not planning to do major repairs. However I’d like to do the whole hallway and stairwell in limewash / chalky lime paint which will undoubtably need 3 or 4 coats. Any tips much appreciated, I have been thinking about dividing hallway at downstand beam and maybe timber panelling hallway to dado rail level