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...

As a compromise you could use a paper border instead of a dado rail. Less permanent.

Only joking

If you like net curtains you should have a look at linen voiles. Now those are lovely.

I love the dado rails in our Victorian-era house, but they're paired with what I'd describe as contemporary colour choices. When we moved in there was florid Victorian-style wallpaper both above and below the rail, nicely in period, but would have been intolerable to live with.

We have a picture rail and a dado Rail in our kitchen and bedroom and picture rails in all the other rooms. I love them! Our house was built in the late 1800's so it suits it.

Still have the original ones in my place. Built in the 1900's. They are all painted the same colour as the whole wall so don't stand out. Have original picture rails too. I have very modern furniture but I wouldn't remove them.

Just making it clear, I don’t like net curtains! But I love a good linen voile.

My house is Georgian and the dado rails are original, so they suit the character. I wouldn't have them in a modern property though. We have a flat that we rent out and happily agreed for our long-standing tenant to redecorate - no dado rail but dark red painted anaglypta paper beneath a hideous floral border and then a sort of buttermilk colour above. It was vile!

Yes I was harsh in terms of period houses - a dado rail can look lovely in the right setting, just as wood panelling does.

Maybe he should refer to it in a more farrow and ball (slightly wanky) way and call it devon vanilla and royal raspberry or some such silliness?

What is anaglypta?

My parents have a dado rail in the hall, and they are only 70. It saved my mum a lot of repainting when we were little and constantly trailing grubby hands and felt tip pens along the wall.

I have a picture rail in the sitting room (built 1895), and it's great because you can hang heavy pictures without wrecking your plaster.

Anaglypta is paintable textured wallpaper.

www.anaglypta.co.uk/our-papers/brand/dado-panels

I once lived in a 1910s house that had dado rails and anaglypta in what seemed like every room....

We have anaglypta all over our house. In one room, delightfully, there are four different patterns all competing.

Needless to say, it's a rental and we did not in fact choose it! But actually, I've found I do like the effect and I would choose the pattern we have in our living room again, for this kind of house. It's a little low-ceilinged cottage with extremely wonky walls, and somehow having paper with a pattern works.

I do think, though, that you should only keep period features if you genuinely like them. It's as much to do with fashion as anything else. Give it ten years and a grey living room will be a horror akin to the avocado bathroom suite; give it sixty, and it'll be chic vintage again, and so will those quaint old devices on the walls people used to use, where you say 'Alexa' and they play music, in charmingly old-fashioned style.

We have it in our hall, stairs and landing. Grey wooden panelling underneath and white above. It's a pre war house.

I think they can look good in certain homes. I don't really like red in interior decor anyway so I'd say no to that.

Anglypta was an all paper alternative to Lincrusta, which was a mid-Victorian invention.

I clicked on this because nearly always when people say 'nobody under 90 does this' I get to say 'I'm not yet 40, but I do!' However, even I would not put a dado rail into a house which did not have one and then colour the wall below red. This is wrong.

Our house, itself, is only slightly under 90 and goes one better with an original plate rail in the hall. It also has the original art deco banisters with a big, gappy, angular design that sent our surveyor into overdrive with the red ink! They were originally varnished, then painted white, then painted with that hideous "woodgrain" paint that was so prolific in the 90s.

YABU OP - and I am with your DH re your peacock themed net curtains [vomit]

i have dado rails, picture rails, anaglypta wallpaper and woodchip. and i'm not 90. Was all here when we moved in and cannot be faffed to change it. I like the picture rail (i actually hang pictures from it so no holes in wall) and dado rails.

I like it. And the reverse.

bmw6 Like a stake to my heart!
I searched for ages for my lovely peacock curtains!

Thing of beauty they are 😍

I love mine. I added it to our bedroom a few years ago. I'm 47

I love this and think it looks modern... the colours you mention remind me of my nans house in the 90's 😂

That’s grounds for divorce. LTB.