I feel that bedrooms can have their own flavor and personality since they are completely separated from other rooms. Think of a house with mostly light colored walls in which a moody, color-drenched master bedroom or study exists. That especially holds true for a nursery. I would apply it to all four walls.

Lily, your photo didn't show up. Wainscoting, which typically covers the lower part of a wall, is in my experience always applied on all the walls of a room. Board and batten covers the full surface of a wall, and I think is also usually applied to all the walls of a room. I have no personal of board and batten, so perhaps someone else here with better knowledge will correct me if I'm mistaken.

I suppose it might look out of place if you don't have wall treatments in keeping with your choice elsewhere. But it might just look like a special little jewel-box, the way some powder rooms do. (I'm not equating a nursery with a powder room in any other way!)

Try adding your photo again. Also, the pros here consider the big picture when discussing design, so adding a floor-plan with clear measurements, and if possible pictures of all four walls in your room as it is now, can help to get you better advice.

Stay strong. Folks here can be blunt to the point of rudeness, but it doesn't necessarily invalidate their points. It just makes it harder to absorb them.

You have to wait until a picture clarifies, looses its grayed appearance before you hit submit., or the picture will not post.

In answer to a one question? Best as all four walls , jmo

I've no idea where the single wall everything, from paint to paper to trimming actually began, but I confess it makes me 100% nuts. : ) and far prefer to take it all the way!

it won't look out of place. Doing just the crib wall may protect the wall from the crib rubbing against it. Do what you like.

Think of the long term look after baby stage... will it still be what you want?

If done, do all four walls. Consider whether this child will be in this room 10 years from now and enjoy B&B on the walls.

While B&B is by no means a new form of wall finish, it is a relatively new trend to apply it decoratively to just one room in a house where there are no other similar applications. I do wonder if when this trend has passed, lots of people will be figuring out how to repair walls where they wish to rip it out. What is everyone doing with their shiplap now?

IMO both need to be done in the whole room or it always looks like an after thought . I love decals and painted murals in nurseries since this is a childs room a bit of fun seems more appropriate to me.

Does the paint color of the board and batten need to match the wall above? I don’t think im going to do wallpaper.

I also wonder if this trend has passed- especially when the rest of the home is in a different style.…

No, the paint color above the board-and-batten does not need to match the paint color of the board-and-batten itself.

An online image search for "board and batten wall nursery" will show variations with all one color, two different colors, wallpaper above, board-and-batten to the ceiling, and a fair number of wall treatments that I would not have considered board-and-batten (though perhaps they are). You don't need to include the "nursery" in your search terms, of course, but I thought you might find it reassuring to see nursery pictures.

All 4 walls should be done in the board and batten and no, the paint color above does not need to match the board and batten.

Okay. Thank you. Yes I found this one which I think looks nice with different paint colors, although I might do something like these benjamin moore colors.

"Does the paint color of the board and batten need to match the wall above? I don’t think im going to do wallpaper. "

No.......: ) White on the board and batten is classic, white trim on window and door casings is classic. ......ANY color on walls. This is despite the Instagram/Pinterest nursery room trend to muddy and drab colors, with painted board and batten in equally muddy colors: )

Any nursery that will see at least four iterations from infancy to late teens.......remember that important fact.

0-3 "infancy

3 -6 toddler max which is followed by 'Mommy.my room is a baby room!"

6- 10 primary school........

10 -14 young teen

14 to off to college? = pigsty close the door

All of the above , from should not need more than3 paint events and 5 inexpensive bedding tweaks. Another reason a hardwood floor is the best!

Not one thing about infancy is LASTING : )

When thinking about installing any treatment on the lower part of a wall, you need to consider how much of it will be seen. In the photos above, it is a good height so it will continue above any furniture (crib, dresser, changing table). Any lower and it's just a waste of time and money since the furniture could hide it.

I think any wood paneling is a great choice for a home, but it needs to coordinate with the style of the home and the other rooms.

" I still say....

Not one thing about infancy shall last.....

Children love c.ol.o.r

You turn the room over to their tastes at about age 5-6

Everything beyond is pray you gave birth to a neatnik kid, with your good taste: )

Add.

Every blessed thing on the internet has morphed to mock up and AI. No real rooms and real children exist

Took twenty minutes to find white and STILL with wallpaper lol

Agree with all your points, Jan.

But the last one, never going to happen.

^^

Agreeeeeeeed!!!! I have found one neat teen in all these years. ONE.

We got a quote for the wood paneling and it is more than we were anticipating as it involved skim coating all of the walls since we have textures walls. If we dont decide to move forward with it, the room already has a chair rail. Should we remove it or would it look okay painted the same color as the walls?

I would just paint it the same color as the walls

It will look just fine painted the same color as the walls.

You can remove it if you like.

If you decide to paint one color above the rail and a different color below, I think it usually looks nicer to paint the chair rail the same color as the wall below it.

OTOH, if you have contrasting baseboard trim, you can paint the rail the same color as the baseboards.

I think it's a matter of "what do you want to see every day" rather than "what is the right way to do this." Infants don't care, and toddlers are likely to draw on the walls anyway—maybe nurseries should be paneled in dry erase boards!

By the way, Lily, congratulations on the coming addition to your family!

I'd remove the chair rail, unless you feel lazy -- which I always do, in which case paint it the same color as the wall. Most are an odd proportion and don't add anything to the feel of the room.

Congratulations! Decorating a nursery is such fun.

I kept the chair rail in my kids’ rooms. When they were a bit older (they grow so fast!), I glued magnets every 24” and used magnetic clips to hang their artwork in their rooms. Easy to change out as new art was created.

Love Design Fan's idea for artwork.

I had 4 kids and none of them EVER drew on the walls. Neither do my grandkids.

Paint the chair rail as the wall color, It will "disappear"

Second,,,,,,,,,,,,,a baby is oblivious to the concept of decor. I absolutely understand the desire to create an adorable and safe , cozy, haven for a new arrival!! But if babies understood what mommy was agonizing about?

The baby would say.....

I just want the hugs and kisses in a room not too hot, and not too cold. I learn to sleep in whatever room you put me, in whatever amount of light is in the room.

I'm almost incapable of being damaged by you or dad, as long as you love me.

I just want the dry diaper ( sort of, the poop doesn't really bug me that much, but I do stink)

I just want the regularity of eating time, sleepy time same thing every day, huggy time , every day like another: )

Even when I am standing up in my crib, hollering to come out? I just want mom and dad.

I you want to hang some little stuff that dances in the light above my head....yeah, I am good with that: )

Signed..Your kid

Art? Removable mounting putty? WHEN I can draw....: ) good on my textured walls,