Painting knotty pine walls

You don't always have to paint over your knotty pine, especially if it's appropriate to your home. Here are 3 ways to make the most of it.

Say goodbye to 1970's knotty pine wood paneling and give your room a fresh new start. Zinsser Bulls Eye 1-2-3 Primer is the perfect start for your wood paneling living room makeover, like this one from SoPo Cottage. This water-based primer sticks to all surfaces without sanding, while sealing stains and tannin bleed. Your walls will thank you.

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How to paint knotty pine paneling Found a home you're in love with but the inside is totally covered in pine paneling? We get it, not everyone likes pine paneling. Even more people don't like it if it's covering wall after wall. Wood wall paneling was very popular from the 1940's (and probably for a while before) thr

Here are some after pictures of the paneling restoration. Each of these boards was removed, numbered, stripped and sanded. A white stain was added and completed with two coats of tung oil. The cabin is in a wooded area and the original orange paneling seemed to darken the house. We decided to refinish it in an updated bright finish. In the corner is a shelf made from a rescued door.

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How we modernized our knotty pine porch: the before, design plans, renovation process, and reveal of our knotty pine porch renovation.

Painting the bunk room paneling was the most tedious, excruciating paint project I have ever embarked upon. We had gotten a quote to get is professionally sprayed for around $2,000. Looking back, it...