Decorative wainscoting for your Prescott home

What is wainscoting? You have likely heard the term before, but do you know what it means? Able & Ready Construction explains decorative wainscoting as a possible upgrade for your Prescott home.

Historically, wainscoting has been a component of home design in which solid wooden panels were installed at chair height across the lower half of the walls of a room. The purpose was to help keep the room warmer. These panels provided extra insulation and also protected walls from the scuffs of shoes and the backs of chairs.

FUNCTIONAL:
Wainscoting served an important purpose before homes were insulated. In more recent years the term has been expanded to include many kinds of decorative wall paneling. It can still serve as wall-protection in our modern homes, but it can also add eye-catching charm to our home decor.

DECORATIVE:
The uses and styles of wainscoting have dramatically changed over the years. Since our insulated walls now keep us warm, we can get quite creative with our wainscoting. We can do much more than make a covering for the lower half of our walls. Wainscoting has become a design form of its own, with very broad decor guidelines.

If you like to be traditional, you can apply chair-height panel wainscoting. If you like to experiment with contemporary forms, apply the wainscot all the way up to the ceiling. Also, there are wainscoting style options that blend the traditional with the contemporary.

Able & Ready Construction, your local Prescott full-service remodeling contractor hopes this discussion about decorative wainscoting has given you some inspiration for your next home renovation. If you would like to learn more about wainscoting or other decorative ideas, call the professionals at Able & Ready Construction today at 928-775-6178.

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