Hi Brownstoners,
\nI’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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-39152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodwork"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/wainscoting-hei\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Wainscoting Height","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/wainscoting-hei\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/wainscoting-hei\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Woodwork","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"jlo"}],"creator":["jlo"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-12-06T16:01:27Z","datePublished":"2009-12-06T16:01:27Z","dateModified":"2009-12-10T09:48:06Z"},"rendered":"