Forum Archive

We have a brownstone stripped of most detail. Our neighbor is in the process of doing a gut reno and has offered me their (original) panelling/wainscotting. The wainscotting looks like oak, but not a terribly nice grade of oak and also has some wear and tear. Is is worth it to re-use their wainscotting in our house, or would it be better to just buy new wainscotting. The other issue is that all our baseboards are white, so we would be painting the wainscotting white anyway.