Our great room, where I am right now, is paneled in pine tongue and groove paneling. I am putting a new doorway from this room to the dining room and got a little heavy handed taking the paneling down. It's turned into a huge job because the previous owner just left up the exterior wall (obviously non-load bearing, didn't even touch the ceiling framing) and the brick veneer from what used to be the outside of the house. LOML didn't want a 14 inch thick doorway, and the brick was not helping the heating bills, so the old exterior wall and brick are now gone. Two little walls fill in the ends, a new subfloor spans the gap (quite an ordeal due to different subfloor thickness in the two rooms) and the gap in the drywall at the ceiling is filled and one coat of mud applied. So I'm ready to start applying the pieces I took down and will see how it goes. If I run out, I am confident I can make pieces the same size with the same chamfer detail at the tongue but I am not confident I can get them the same yellow/amber color as the rest of the room.
One solution might be to put a whitewash stain on this wall. The window wall next to it (four large almost floor to ceiling windows) has this stain. We neither love nor dislike it. Even if I have enough paneling, my next job will be to put up a shelving unit with a large center opening for a TV mount. That will be new wood, probably pine. So maybe I should just "pickle" - use a minwax whitewash stain - on the wall too.
Thoughts?
One solution might be to put a whitewash stain on this wall. The window wall next to it (four large almost floor to ceiling windows) has this stain. We neither love nor dislike it. Even if I have enough paneling, my next job will be to put up a shelving unit with a large center opening for a TV mount. That will be new wood, probably pine. So maybe I should just "pickle" - use a minwax whitewash stain - on the wall too.
Thoughts?