Old paneling walls

You know that weird old wall paneling, the stuff that everyone used to have in their basements back in the 70′s? Well, I’ve got a bit of that in my house. And by a bit, I mean it’s pretty much every

We are rocking along on the house. I’m down to the last big room to be painted and that is the den. Yowza, at the brown wood paneling in that space. I have never been

Here's how to update old wood panel walls. Save money by painting wood paneling with grooves. You can paint wood paneling without sanding.

There is no need to tear down and replace old wood paneling if the only problem with it is that it is dirty or dull. You can clean even 50-year-old wood paneling to make it look bright, shiny and new again.

We'll show you how simple it is to give wood paneling a clean, modern look with paint.

We have a lot of wood panelling in our basement that I would like to lighten. But I can’t decide on painting vs. whitewashing panelling and the brick.

Before and after: Old wall paneling primed and painted. spencerpainting.us #spencerpainting

We’ve all probably seen the paneling that was popular in the 60s and 70s…the big sheets of paneling with fake “grooves” in them that can be any number of wood-like colors (or not!). We were lucky enough to have five rooms in our house with this type of paneling in it. (And I say lucky very sarcastically.) I painted right over the paneling in three of those rooms but of course you can still see the grooves in the paneling and while that doesn’t look bad, it still looks like paneling. And…

Learning how to spackle over paneling isn't complicated. It starts with knowing what tools and materials you'll need and LOTS of prep work.