Mixing Wainscoting Styles in Adjoining Rooms

5 years ago

Love the formality (and drama!) of 65"+ Picture Frame Trim in two story foyer / stairway. ISSUE: the adjacent lower level entrance (off the garage) is more like a mudroom / laundry area -- informal/craftsman-ish Board and Batten would seem more appropriate/authentic; formal Picture Framing in this area seems totally out of place, forced, and just architecturally wrong. Solutions? An in-between style of wainscoting? If I say the heck with it and do the two distinctive styles, will it look bananas at the wall corner where they meet? Contractor is coming next week to work on door/window frames/headers, paint and finish punch-list; want him to do the wainscoting before he finishes. Any/all suggestions -- greatly appreciated!!!

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
5 years ago
IMO the mud room needs no such trim at all since there will be storage and trim will interfere with that and it is a mud room not exactly the area where wainscoting would be in at all IMHO
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Olive Nystuff
Original Author
5 years ago
@Patricia Colwell Consulting No storage -- it's really just the entrance from the garage. I think I really just want to brighten it up.
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MarylandHomebody
5 years ago
Since the mudroom is an extension of the entryway, I would keep styles consistent. Since you love the formal traditional wainscoting, you should extend it to mudroom.

There's nothing wrong with having formal millwork in a mudroom, especially since you like it and would be using that entrance more often than the formal one.

Just use a really high quality paint like SW Emerald Urethane or BM Advance so you can clean it easily.
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Olive Nystuff
Original Author
5 years ago
@MarylandHomebody Can I get these paints in any sheen? I thinking about doing Satin for trim instead of Semi-Gloss.
MarylandHomebody
5 years ago
Of course. I’ve used SW Emerald in satin and it was actually closer to a chalky/eggshell texture, if that’s what you’re going for.
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