wainscoting
Decorative paneling covering the lower 3-4 feet of an interior wall. Usually wood in a plain design; may be painted or only varnished.
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Wainscoting - Francois I Gallery, Fontainebleau Palace, France Interior
Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois ...
pickets Panelling The covering of an interior surface with timber, usually as a series of sheets fixed between framing members, called wainscoting if limited to the lower part of the wall Parapet A wall built higher than the eaves line of a ...
Beamed ceilings - In the dining room, the beams are made with redwood
Dark wood wainscoting and moldings. In the dining room, the redwood wainscoting is seven feet high.
See views of this house as it appeared in 1912 ...
The rooms on the two lower floors were imposing and spacious; with ceilings of great height, gilded wainscoting and various quaint little medallion pictures of shepherds and shepherdesses, and other fancies of the time of Madame de Sevigne.
Whatever genius was in charge of the refurbishing the property to accommodate wheelchairs and walkers decided to cover the original wood floors and wainscoting with plastic finishes rather than replace them or have them accidentally ruined.
Tin ceilings were traditionally painted white to give the appearance of hand-carved or molded plaster. They were incorporated into residential living rooms and parlors as well as commercial businesses, where painted tin was often used as wainscoting.
 See also: Wainscot, Architecture, House, Floor, Ceiling
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