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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Are they in fashion anymore? I really want to put a dado rail in my living room but the woman in the wallpaper shop laughed and said people are ripping them down and trying to get rid of them.

Set the scene, I'm having grey and pale pink in my living room, have grey sofa, undecided on flooring, curtains, but I wanted wallpaper on the top it's like a fancy pale pink and white, with pale pink shimmer paper at the bottom with a white dado rail. I like it, but what's people's views on dado rails?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you do what you want - i hate crowd pleasers - xxxx sounds lovely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a personal choice isn't it? Cheeky mare laughing at you - if you like it go for it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you decorating your house for you or for others?

Do what makes you happy. They aren't for me but then neither is wallpaper - too much like hard work and a pain to change if you want to.

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By *emini1637Woman
over a year ago

Warwickshire

I have a dado rail in my bedroom which I'm wanting to get rid off when I decorate but I guess at the end of it all if it's something you want why let other people put you off x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dado rails were initially to stop furniture from hitting the walls.

I think they're falling out of fashion now. But that's only my opinion.

I can't remember the last house I saw have them.

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By *izzabelle and well hungCouple
over a year ago

Edinburgh.

No don't do it. It's a 90's diy show thing.

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By *ascade35Man
over a year ago

Alnwick

I've always liked dado rails and wood panneling for certain rooms....as has already been stated, you're decorating for yourself, not for others, so do what you want to do.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do they have a complimentary coloured border in the range. Then you can have that to hide the join if you don't want to pop the dado rails up.

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

Sounds pretty old fashioned,but what the heck does that matter,if that's what you want then have it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had them in my old house. Took my step-dad a week to put up the ones in my living room so never dared get rid and my mum has them.

When i moved into my old house it had a wallpaper border where the dado rail goes, and that looked ok but a bit dated.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Yeah I draw the line at a border, think that's too old fashioned!

I've been looking at wall panelling as well, think white panels at the bottom with this paper I've got would be nice. Or just do the one feature wall with paper and paint the rest, got that in my bedroom and my daughters though and that seems a bit repetitive now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's personal taste so if you like it do it.

But.....

Dado rails - out

Wood panelling is very in ??

See lots of wood panelling in higher end new builds lately

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends what period your house is. It's never going to look out of place or dated if it's what would have been an original feature in my opinion.

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By *unandbuckCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Do a Dildo Rail instead

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold


"Do a Dildo Rail instead "

Always a good ice breaker when you have people round, and it's somewhere to hang your coats too

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By *andVBCouple
over a year ago

Wrexham

We don't have dado rails but are currently undecided as to whether to put the picture rails back up. I quite like the simplicity of a large mono-colour wall.

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By *orum TrollWoman
over a year ago

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i like them and think they look nice. cba to put them up in my own home but if someone else had put them in i wouldn't rip them out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't be a follower of trends. Set them instead, it's your house.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is wood panneling a bit permanent though and would it wreck the walls?

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

You just slap them on with No More Nails nowadays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do what you want that makes you happy.. if you put in the wood panelling get a chalk paint like rust-oleum they look lovely and get the finishing glaze as stops anything damaging it!

When I get my own place im putting picture rails in and want my living room to have a georgian theme, so duck egg blue with bright white picture rail & coving.. not everyone will like it but I will and thats what matters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's nothing wrong with being a little retro!

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By *obwithkiltMan
over a year ago

Belton

if an original feature or house is from that period then put them in/keep them.

love quirky old bits of architectural history.

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By *W ChapMan
over a year ago

Swindon


"No don't do it. It's a 90's diy show thing. "

And when you decide they're rank, they mess up your plastering......paint a border if you want a line of demarcation.

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By *W ChapMan
over a year ago

Swindon


"You just slap them on with No More Nails nowadays "

Which fucks up plastering when you take em down, don't do it

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

Dado rails are sooooo 90's, but if you like them go for it. An alternative would be to do a feature wall with the fancy wallpaper maybe?

Cheeky cow laughing at you to!!!!! Grrrrr

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold


"You just slap them on with No More Nails nowadays

Which fucks up plastering when you take em down, don't do it "

Hence the Face

Even screwed to the wall you've got to get the polyfilla out

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By *vadownMan
over a year ago

Wickham

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By *vadownMan
over a year ago

Wickham

Sounds great do what you want. Have you thought about artex on the ceiling? Perhaps a nice comb pattern

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

O o O oo

We moved house that has it, the mess it is leaving behind when we are taking it off is a pig though.

I say go for what YOU want in your house, sod what anyone else thinks

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

I love my dado rails, but them I'm old!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I've got none and as others say - decoration is for you. I'd not have them due to dust collection

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford


"I've got none and as others say - decoration is for you. I'd not have them due to dust collection "

They do take some dusting!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I have a dado rail in my bedroom which I'm wanting to get rid off when I decorate but I guess at the end of it all if it's something you want why let other people put you off x "

Be careful with that. I moved into an old cottage with a dado rail in the living room. I admit to being a bit gung-ho with the crowbar not realising the thing was glued to the wall. I ended up pulling huge chunks of plaster off with it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

The property is 4 years old so they wouldn't have been an original feature. I don't even have a fireplace but was going to get one of those electric fires that has a mantle and bit of a hearth.

I really like the wood panelling now I've been googling it more. Have 9 weeks left till my sofa is finished so gives me time to decorate the living room.

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