Who still has panelling in their homes?!?!

I don't like it if it is overdone or cheap but thehouse that my husband and I are buying has one small wall paneled in realy hardwood and varnished and I think it looks nice, certainly wouldn't want it on all the walls but just the one wall behind the woods stove, I think, give the house a warm feeling. However if it was crappy wood-llok wall board I would take it out.

No panelling in my house, thank good ness! Congrats on your new home!

I only have one wall of wood paneling...in my living room. The bedrooms and hallway are all wood paneling. The bathroom is designed paneling (blue flowers as if that helps lol) and the kitchen/dining room is tan designed paneling on one side and wood paneling on the other! It was built in 1983-4 I'm moving soon too and I really hope there won't be a single piece of cheap wood paneling anywhere in the new place. My parents have a lot of paneling in their house though and for the most part it actually looks really nice. They put a higher quality wall papered paneling up on most of the walls. That actually looks good since it's an older home and probably would have originally had patterned wallpaper. They tried really hard to save the original wainscot but it didn't seem possible without spending a lot more money than they had for renovations. Instead they covered it with the nicer kind of wood paneling. It's alright but I'd rather have marred real would than perfect fake wood. The kitchen and bathrooms are done in a tiled paneling. I'm undecided about it. I think it does look nice but it wouldn't have been MY choice. All of the work they've done has been since 1993 by the way. I guess I'm biased against paneling anyway since my "dream house" would be an old farm house with all its beat up, imperfect wood and plaster.

Are you in your newplace and starting the restoration? I have to tell you, I didn't have to deal with panelling. Thank god, that stuff is hideous. Were they putting it on top of insulation? That is the only reason I can see for ripping out an original wall and covering it with that stuff? ANyhow, in our house, which is over 100 years old, they painted everytihng with a thick oil based paint. Over the years I have stripped it all back, but it has been some job. Layers, and layers of paint in all different colours. It makes you wonder what people are thinking, to cover beautiful old wood, but I guess fashions change. But not with panelling, in the last 10 years. LOL!

When we were looking to buy a house last year almost every house we looked at had paneling. I didn't realize how many people actually used paneling. Anyway my fiancee and I finally picked a house that had no paneling what so ever. Neither of use care for paneling. Some people like paneling is probably one of the reasons why they put it in there home. Another reason could be that they did the home improvement themselves and they might not know how to drywall or something.

Are houses are made of concrete, as we live in the middle of an ocean & have hurricanes to deal with. Most people I know with panelling have ended up with mold and/or mildew between it and the concrete wall. We just tend to paint the concrete...

Panelling is ugly, I cannot tell the last time I saw a home with panelling. I guess you guys will have to rip out and put something else more appealing.

lol We definitely don't have any in our house, but I know that when my parents first moved in here, there was a ton of it and my parents couldn't stand it. I think that was one of the first things they changed as soon as they bought the house. They couldn't wait to get rid of it all, lol. My sister and brother in law recently bought a house and it actually had paneling in the living room still, but the previous owners had painted over it before selling the house. It does help, but they still can't wait to get rid of it, lol.

Lol. I lived in an apartment complex that still had paneling up. It was horrendous... Our living room had paneling that went half way up the wall.. it also stopped randomly at a point on the wall so it didn't even go all the way across. It was so horrible.... Some of the rooms had what looked like chunks of tree on the wall, not exactly paneling, but it looked SO UGLY and made the whole place dark and uninviting. Luckily I no longer live in that complex :)