When you think of a wood paneled room, you may think of an old study or library in an early to mid-1900s home. Some may think it’s a dated feature in older homes, but nothing could be further from the truth. The trickiest design element is creating eye-catching color balance, letting the walls, ceiling, floor, and furnishings work together. Think about how your favorite furnishings can pop. Everyone has a style of their own that they want their home to represent. We found examples of how four styles can be represented in a Wood Paneled Room.
Modern
Photo credit: Evan Joseph, Town & Country. Featured in Elizabeth Arden’s Former New York City Townhouse Is On the Market
Please look at how the wood paneling was painted a glossy gray paint paired with a sleek marble mantel. It creates an ultra-modern feel. The room balance was created using dark gray walls and ebony finished floors with a white ceiling and cream throw rug.
Minimalism
Photo credit: Evan Joseph, Town & Country. Featured in Elizabeth Arden’s Former New York City Townhouse Is On the Market
Minimalism represents living with very few items as possible. Decorating with just chairs, side tables, table lamps, and a throw rug gives that minimal feel. The room balance was created using dark chestnut carved panel walls and dark wood finished floors with a white ceiling, cream throw rug, and neutral gray furniture.
Traditional
Photo credit: PFD Design Group, The Spruce – 15 Elegant, Traditional Living Rooms
Traditional style rooms represent comfortable furniture, classic designs, and casual décor. The big huge windows create a bright airy atmosphere in such a neutral-colored room. The room balance is created with a white ceiling and light furnishings paired with the neutral rug and warm medium-toned wood paneling and flooring. Typically, in an antique paneled room, sconces were used as a source of lighting.
Eclectic
Photo Credit: Douglas Friedman, Harper’s Bazaar – The Fashionable Life: A New York Fairy Tale
Eclectic is a mixture of textures, time periods, styles, trends, and colors. This room has a mix of modern sconces, a Victorian crystal chandelier, mid-century chairs, carved wooden paneled walls and mantel, and modern art. The room balance was created with a white ceiling, white rug, and bright metal furnishings paired with the dark medium tone paneled walls and floors.
In-Stock Wood Paneled Rooms
Here at Olde Good Things, we put our hearts into our salvage projects. We spend countless hours carefully removing one panel at a time, one bookcase at a time, from these special wood rooms. Now that you’ve seen above how you can decorate a wood paneled room in your style, it’s time to see what we have available in stock.
Ceiling Height Knotty Pine Library Room with Ladder
This knotty pine paneled library room was salvaged from one of New York City’s turn of the century townhouse estates. Click on the listing and see all the pieces included in this room. Picture adding antique sconces, antique paintings, many books, a bright solid colored rug, and a large executive desk.
1940s Secret Wall to Wall Bookcase Library Room
Carefully extracted from a hidden library of an East Side Manhattan estate. Click on the listing and see all the pieces included in this room. Picture adding brass sconces, a crystal chandelier, vintage globes and maps, many books, a bright oriental rug, and comfy leather furniture.
Recessed Panel Dark Oak Paneled Room from Riverside Drive Estate
19th Century solid carved oak paneled room from Manhattan’s Riverside Drive. Click on the listing and see all the pieces included in this room. Picture adding crystal sconces, a petite crystal chandelier, a modern painting, antique lamps and a set of armchairs all positioned around the carved mantel.
Tiger Oak Recessed Paneled Room
Tiger oak recessed paneled room with elaborately carved crown molding, arches, and columns. This is true 19th-century craftsmanship carefully extracted from one of the New York City estates of Huguette Clark. Click on the listing and see all the pieces included in this room.
4 Foot Raised Panel American Chestnut or Oak Wainscot
Circa 1910 raised panel American chestnut or oak wainscot from an Upper East Side Manhattan church. Click on the listing and see all the pieces included in this room.
