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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Are they in fashion anymore? I really want to put a dado rail in my living room but the woman in the wallpaper shop laughed and said people are ripping them down and trying to get rid of them.
Set the scene, I'm having grey and pale pink in my living room, have grey sofa, undecided on flooring, curtains, but I wanted wallpaper on the top it's like a fancy pale pink and white, with pale pink shimmer paper at the bottom with a white dado rail. I like it, but what's people's views on dado rails?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Are you decorating your house for you or for others?
Do what makes you happy. They aren't for me but then neither is wallpaper - too much like hard work and a pain to change if you want to.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dado rails were initially to stop furniture from hitting the walls.
I think they're falling out of fashion now. But that's only my opinion.
I can't remember the last house I saw have them.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had them in my old house. Took my step-dad a week to put up the ones in my living room so never dared get rid  and my mum has them.
When i moved into my old house it had a wallpaper border where the dado rail goes, and that looked ok but a bit dated. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Yeah I draw the line at a border, think that's too old fashioned!
I've been looking at wall panelling as well, think white panels at the bottom with this paper I've got would be nice. Or just do the one feature wall with paper and paint the rest, got that in my bedroom and my daughters though and that seems a bit repetitive now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's personal taste so if you like it do it.
But.....
Dado rails - out
Wood panelling is very in ??
See lots of wood panelling in higher end new builds lately |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Do what you want that makes you happy.. if you put in the wood panelling get a chalk paint like rust-oleum they look lovely and get the finishing glaze as stops anything damaging it!
When I get my own place im putting picture rails in and want my living room to have a georgian theme, so duck egg blue with bright white picture rail & coving.. not everyone will like it but I will and thats what matters |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have a dado rail in my bedroom which I'm wanting to get rid off when I decorate but I guess at the end of it all if it's something you want why let other people put you off x "
Be careful with that. I moved into an old cottage with a dado rail in the living room. I admit to being a bit gung-ho with the crowbar not realising the thing was glued to the wall. I ended up pulling huge chunks of plaster off with it.  |
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over a year ago
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The property is 4 years old so they wouldn't have been an original feature. I don't even have a fireplace but was going to get one of those electric fires that has a mantle and bit of a hearth.
I really like the wood panelling now I've been googling it more. Have 9 weeks left till my sofa is finished so gives me time to decorate the living room. |
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