To think no one under 90

[Fucksandflowers]

Has a dado rail!
DH wants one in the living room!
Cream on top red underneath.
🤢
We are in our early 30s...

We also have some amazing wallpapers and the previous owners never removed anything

Oh that takes me back. My DH and I moved in over 25yrs ago and the previous owners had simply papered over the wallpaper in the small bedroom. It was fascinating peeling back the layers. From being a baby room through to a teenager room, then very very plain office. I love stuff like that. The chip paper though, was a fecking nightmare.

I’m not against dado rails but your colour scheme isn’t good. How about pale grey woodwork and dado, navy paint below the dark and a navy and gold wallpaper above the dado? Or a similar more updated scheme? X

I have one but it is an original feature of the house

You’re welcome.

I was going to put it in my (large) hallway and up the stairs to keep the walls from looking permanently scuffed. Would it be a bad idea?

I think it’s brilliant. You have a lot more choice in the paints or staining that you can use and it’s easier to clean than painted walls. It’s especially good if you have children or mucky teens in the house. I think it can really add character to a hall.

MargaretHoulihan Have you had a look on Pinterest? You can get loads of ideas, from traditional to modern.

Ooh, I remember when cream and red was a thing! I have a very precise memory of looking at a magazine with a living room all in shades of cream and rust-red, and thinking it was just the most impossibly sophisticated thing ever. Must have been about 1990? I was tiny.

I don't personally like dado rails, but they can look quite nice.

We also have a house with layers of the original wallpaper - no one bothered with the airing cupboard, so it's still a 1940s (?) wallpaper my dad remembers his dad having in their house when he was little.

And cream and red? Why in the name of all that's holy would you want to paint your walls cream and red?

DH thinks red is a lovely bright, uplifting colour but entire walls of it would be ‘too much’

But he also thinks a dado rail is a good idea. I rest my case

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We had a red/cream dining room when we moved into our 2000s house. We redecorated into a sage green. Taking dado rails out was troublesome, we only did it in one room, but I wouldn’t choose to fit them. It makes painting difficult as you have so many more edges.

S1 Looking on Pinterest now!

Sarah I want your airing cupboard!

I have one, I'm 50
It went up years ago, my stairs are in my living room and the wall is massive.
It was a combination of not having to paper the whole lot and protecting the paper from the DDs trooping up the stairs and running their hands along the wall. I've always painted under it.
I've got got it re-papered but couldn't be bothered to take it away.

Love your wallpaper coco

Just got it re-papered not got got

Thank you, I only got it done on Friday

Don't forget the anaglypta for below it.

@Fucksandflowers

I like them actually. And the cream and red is right up my street!

DD (in her mid 20s) balks at the idea of dado rail OR cream/magnolia!

I tell what I DO hate though (though I liked them up to about ten years ago...)

NET CURTAINS.

Preconditions: period house with very high ceilings, red must be Pugin red. And not cream above - it does not go with red, ever.. Even then probably only in the hall.

A friend of mine put them into her 1970s living room and they looked terrible. You're pretending it's a period property when it isn't. Unless you're Hyacinth Bouquet, don't do it!

Oh good god no. Bad enough in a period property but at least it makes some historic sense and can be made to look okay if done properly. In a non-period property it would just look utterly horrendous. Ugh no.

I just had to Google what it was

I think they make rooms look smaller.

I LOVE net curtains mabel!!
I have a gorgeous pair in my kitchen, they have peacocks on them ❤️

DH hates them and thinks they belong in an old people’s home.

But then he goes and suggests a dado rail and my parents old colour scheme?!

It’s the cream and red too that is horrifying

I agree. It will look like a pub.

The last occupants of our previous house had put them in, they were a nightmare to remove. We had to replaster in the end as no matter how much we filled and sanded you could still see where they had been fitted. Awful.

No one under 90... . Some of us (considerably under 90) live in Victorian/Edwardian houses. They haven’t all been ripped apart to look like a 70’s Lego block. Thank God.