Elsbeth Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Farmhouse kitchen. Horizontal shiplap or vertical paneling? or horizontal: I'm trying for a rustic farmy-kitchen that looks old. What would you do - vertical or horizontal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Swearengin Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Horizontal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 I'm doing horizontal in my San Franciscan. But my real life house has vertical panelling. If you are going for a farmhouse kitchen look I would do horizontal. Vertical is more Victorian (the era of my rl house ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sable Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Horizontal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsbeth Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 Thank you all as usual - I really appreciate the extra eyes and opinions on this!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Interesting question I've never thought about. I have shiplap going both ways in the same RL house. I have no modern day paneling at all. My house is an old (c.1850) house and parts of the shiplap are vertical and parts of it are horizontal. Proportionately there is more of it that is horizontal. I guess I've never really "looked" at before with an eye for the correctness. I've lived here for many, many, many years and never paid any mind to that. Weird. Mine is not painted. It has varnish type finish on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsbeth Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 12 minutes ago, Selkie said: Interesting question I've never thought about. I have shiplap going both ways in the same RL house. I have no modern day paneling at all. My house is an old (c.1850) house and parts of the shiplap are vertical and parts of it are horizontal. Proportionately there is more of it that is horizontal. I guess I've never really "looked" at before with an eye for the correctness. I've lived here for many, many, many years and never paid any mind to that. Weird. Mine is not painted. It has varnish type finish on it. Oh interesting! My mini-farmhouse is sorta 1890-1900 style. I am drawn to the shiplap. I was thinking of doing sage green shiplap, but now that you mention yours not being painted...or maybe they'd have just done it in white. But I'm down with horizontal siding for sure - excited to have a direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 The interior of our Alpine Villa house in Havana, FL, was all vertical dark paneling; it was built in the late 1960s/ early 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenrodfarm Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 My old farmhouse has vertical, the ceilings are also done with the same wood, I didn't realize that until I peaked up under the dropped ceiling. My house was built in the early 1800's, probably about 1805-09. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsbeth Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 16 minutes ago, Goldenrodfarm said: My old farmhouse has vertical, the ceilings are also done with the same wood, I didn't realize that until I peaked up under the dropped ceiling. My house was built in the early 1800's, probably about 1805-09. Were they painted or natural wood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenrodfarm Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 From the looks of things they were at first natural wood, the dining room was at a later date painted, the ceiling is buttercup yellow under the raised ceiling. The kitchen is natural wood, wider boards, but the dining room is narrow boards. The floors are an interesting mix of narrow natural boards like the dining room, and wide painted boards like the living room. The dining room had an ugly brown shag rug, when we picked that up there was one of those linoleum "rugs", and under that was a beautiful narrow hardwood floor. In the other rooms the walls are the old horsehair plaster and lathes, now covered with paneling that I am slowly removing. The living room is going to be the hardest, you can tell the plaster has fallen by the bulge at the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyckedWood Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 I like the look of the horizontal, plus it's less common in mini, so it's surprising and fun to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Swearengin Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 I put "shiplap" horizontal on the fireplace in my Brookwood dollhouse. Saw a real one and tried to copy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I really love the look of them going Horizontal also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I think one of the reasons vertical beadboard was a popular finish for the interior walls of the FL Cracker houses was that by being perpendicular to the exterior boards it minimized the drafts. No I wonder if the interior horizontal boards were laid so they covered the "seams" between the exterior boards... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Just in case anyone is interested in the original RL design of shiplap, I've tried to make an illustration. Some folks call any wide horizontal or vertical boards shiplap but it's likely not true shiplap. I have lots of regular boards on the walls that are up to 20" wide (horizontal placements). None of those are shiplap, just wonderful wide old wood. Some of that is painted and some not. As to floor boards, I have them anywhere from 4" to 20" all in the same room. Some upstairs floors were painted which we have sanded down and sealed. I even have salvaged some very wide boards that were exterior underlayment that look like trees. They are curvy and still have the bark on them. But back to the shiplap. As an exterior application it was cut to lap over the next board in order to shed water. In the illustration they would be horizontally placed. The Red would be a piece that overlapped the top edge of the blue piece. Each piece was cut that way - not tongue and groove. I had a huge go round with a builder over that one time when we were doing a repair. He had brought modern tongue and groove wood as replacement wood and tried to pass it off as shiplap. Boy was he surprised that his customer wasn't stupid!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsbeth Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 That makes perfect sense. The "lap" is key. And I have seen photos of people just putting up paneling horizontally and calling it shiplap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenrodfarm Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 On 9/24/2017, 12:38:30, Elsbeth said: Were they painted or natural wood? At this particular time they are painted, but having replaced a lighting fixture I noticed that the original was natural wood varnished, the wood was quite dark so it is possible the varnish was a later addition. There was, until 10 years ago, a hardwood flooring mill less then a mile away, they made flooring, shiplap, and some wider tongue and groove. The flooring and shiplab made in the early 1800's was quite narrow compared to the later ones, found out that when looking for replacements to cover a register in the dining room. This place is a constant suprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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