Friday, February 26, 2010

the panels

Our house was built in 1964.
We moved here in 2005.
In that forty year period before we came, someone (or a few someones), really got into putting up timber panelling everywhere.

While I know you would have removed it, we liked it.
We painted it, so we didn't have to feel like we were living in a sauna.
It's nearly all Dulux "white birch/antique white" or whatever that shade is called now.
All except the laundry which is Cadbury Purple.
Even the outside has panelling - we invented this colour so it doesn't have a name.

This is not every room with panelling but, you know, this is enough to get the idea...




7 comments:

  1. I'm all for 60s and 70s timber panelling. In all states of painted or unpainted.
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  2. I secretely like wood panneling, too. Especially when painted white! The house I grew up in had tongue and grove pine panelling, along with unfinished brick walls. My parents built it themselves.

    I don't know that I'd choose it myself, but I would certainly consider keeping it if I had it. I relaly like the outside colour - TRES sophisticated!

    That last room is pretty epic!

    Oh, also... have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A
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  3. Kate, that last room IS epic. It is like a ski lodge-cum-wedding chapel. Wild. Friends think we should hire it out for little weddings. I'll take pictures of the overhead beams and chalet ceiling soon.
    The outside colour is gorgeous - charcoally - I think it freaks out some of the neighbours a little. I was inspired by Derek Jarman's cottage on the beach in the UK - colour is similar. Also HAD to paint it - it was a reddish brown before and pretty dire. Window frames will be done this year - possibly grey? my husband is pondering at the moment.
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  4. Just watched the youtube link - Oh that is brilliant thank you so much.
    David Tennant/Catherine Tate fans must watch it, it will make your night!
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  5. I totally love the panelling! It has a certain charm and reminds me of the beach house where we stay in Cornwall every year.
    Although I agree that the window frames would look best painted white, isn't there just a little part of you that would like to shock the neighbours still further with aqua or pink?!!
    Have a good weekend.
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  6. love tongue and groove panelling
    I had a picture I saved from World of Interiors when I was about 21 of a lodge in the scottish highlands. cream walls, yellow painted t and g panelling and thistle chintz
    my old kitchen in Brunswick St had the panelling so of course it went yellow and cream..... the yellow wasn't right but I still loved it.
    I love how it looks with a slap of paint over it.
    And I lurve your wedding chapel! Hilarious !(in a good way of course! doesn't know whether it wants to be baronial or boardroom!)
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  7. I read somewhere about this dark Englishy panelling being put into Australian houses in the 50s and 60s - the fashion/style was called something like "Gentleman's Hunting Lodge". When we first looked at the house when it was for sale there was a mounted deer's head over the panels which looked very in keeping with it all!
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