Interior wood paneling
Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:01 pm
I just recently became an owner of a mobile home. It is an 82 mobile home. Throughout the house it has the 1/4 wood paneling, neither me or my wife are too fond of this wood paneling. We have came up with a few options of what we are wanting to do to cover it up.
The first option we thought of was just to first primer the walls and then tape and mud over the seams and fake expansion joint lines then sand it and then texture the whole wall. Then to paint. One problem we thought of is with this process the walls being so flimsy and movable that if someone was to hit the wall with a chair or just bump up against it the texture would just flake and crack off the wall.
The next thought we had was to just go and get some 1/4 in drywall and put it over the top of the wall panels and go from there with the finish work.
Any help is greatly appreciated and would love to hear feedback on these methods and which one would work better or if someone has a totally different idea of what to do with it. Thanks in advance.
The first option we thought of was just to first primer the walls and then tape and mud over the seams and fake expansion joint lines then sand it and then texture the whole wall. Then to paint. One problem we thought of is with this process the walls being so flimsy and movable that if someone was to hit the wall with a chair or just bump up against it the texture would just flake and crack off the wall.
The next thought we had was to just go and get some 1/4 in drywall and put it over the top of the wall panels and go from there with the finish work.
Any help is greatly appreciated and would love to hear feedback on these methods and which one would work better or if someone has a totally different idea of what to do with it. Thanks in advance.