Wainscoting Height
Hi Brownstoners, I’d appreciate your advice on the appropriate height of wainscoting if you want to elongate a room and yet still be traditional. In a square room that will be my dining room that is about 8 feet high, we want to install wainscoting with wallpaper above. This particular room has our lowest ceiling…
Hi Brownstoners,
I’d appreciate your advice on the appropriate height of wainscoting if you want to elongate a room and yet still be traditional. In a square room that will be my dining room that is about 8 feet high, we want to install wainscoting with wallpaper above. This particular room has our lowest ceiling height and we don’t want to make the room look any lower — quite the contrary — we’d like the wainscoting to add length to the room. The panels will be rectangular and painted white (sorry purists) and we initially thought having the panels go up 3/4 of the wall height would elongate the room, but now we’re not sure and are leaning toward a more traditional 36″ height. But will this bisect the room and make it look shorter? Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks.
googled wainscot height and realized this stuff is all over the place. traditionally it stops at chair rail height but the actual rule is “whatever looks best” take a pic and photoshop it. Cheap fast efficient.
Why not just go all the way to the ceiling? Is that not considered wainscoting then?
if the ceiling height is only 8′, then id be careful about wainscoting. Otherwise it will make the room even lower.
That said, you could try short wainscoting (1/3 or even 1/4 of room height) to give the room the appearance of height. however, i dont see any way to put wallpaper on top. (although i almost always hate wallpaper).
purists please verify but I believe the wainscotting should be 1/3 or 2/3 of the wall height.