Painting walls with picture rail?
How do you paint a wall with picture rail? Do you paint the same wall color above and below? Or do you paint the wall color up to the picture rail and then paint the area above the same color as the ceiling?
And what about wallpaper? Only up to the picture rail?
I know… the Photoshopped wallpaper looks ridiculous (also - that’s NOT our dragon on the buffet). Which version looks better though?
13 Responses to “Painting walls with picture rail?”
We had the same problem in our new house a week ago!
Luckily our neighboor is an archictect and explained to me that in the Victorian era they used to paint the area above the molding the same color as the ceiling.
The last owner didn’t do it and painted up to the ceiling. When we came back to the original way really the room looked bigger and more comfortable. It’s an illusion but it does add optic space to the room!
Hope it will help you!
Painting above and wallpaper below looks better, but it could make your ceiling appear lower. If you just paint, I think the same color on both sides would be best. Good luck!
Hi,
I’m new here because i have been looking for an answer to a similar question. In fact, almost the exact question, except that i am planning to only do one wall in wallpaper, I am almost considering removing the picture rail on that wall only . Although without doing that, what do you think is the best solution for above the picture rail on the feature wall?
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Alison
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January 29, 2007 - 2:22 pm
I def. like the second one better - painting over the chair rail, wallpaper under.
*and FYI, i posted last week that i couldn’t see the pictures — they were all squished, but on this last post, i can see them! (just them - still not the others)