Unpopular opinion on wall panelling?

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I'm interested to find out what others think of the new trend of fake wall panelling?
I have seen so many examples on Instagram recently to do this, especially in new builds.
Is it just me who thinks it looks awful and should only be done in houses that would usually have had this with the tall ceilings anyway.
I think it looks nice when done with half a wall, underneath a dado rail etc but when it's a full wall in a small new build, it's just too much don't you think.
(I have a new build by the way so have nothing against them at all).

I think it’s quite cute actually. New builds can be a bit bland.

We had load of indoor pine cladding in our 1970s Victorian terrace, it was like some Canadian mountain lodge. Every house trend looks a bit naff when you’re looking back at from the future.

Dislike any form of mock character, as well as 'trends'

You’d be fortunate to find a perfectly virgin, uninterfered with house though This stool

As someone whose house has naff tongue and groove pannelling up the stairs and in the landing that cant be easily removed(because of the dodgy way the house has been renovated) I hate it! We had it in the kitchen too but got that ripped out. We painted it in dulux timeless few years ago but it needs redoing and I'm dreading having to sand it all and repaint.

I'm quite partial to a bit of tongue and groove in the right context. It can look lovely in a bathroom.

Depends. If it’s trying to look period in a modern house, I’m not keen. But modern linear strips or squares can look really good and stop the room being a featureless box.

I really like it as a feature, especially in a really dark colour. Although I saw it on a programme where they panelled a new build’s living room, just the bottom half and painted in sage green - beautiful. I don’t like the mock character in any home, but a modern take just looks fresh to me.

I've seen some that looks fantastic but I think it's something that could spill over into Changing Rooms territory if it's not done well.

I think in a modern house you should own how modern it is and not do some dreadful traditional fakery. There's some amazing inspiration if you google 'modern panelling', lots of geometric curved patterns that probably cost £££.

They're all very 'same same' I find, especially all the Instagram new home ones

I quite liked it when I first saw it on Instagram but now the trend is for everyone to do it. It seems relatively easy to do and does transform the space although I wonder how easy it will be to remove from plasterboard walls of and when they want a change up as they tend to glue it up.

I really like it in a new house if it’s built in a traditional style, there are lots of ‘Heritage’ style new houses in my area and the panelling looks very in keeping, if put in a more modernist new build it would look out of place. Just because a house is a new build does not mean it’s necessarily built in a ‘modern’ style.

‘mock character’ is nothing new, even older properties copy and add ‘fakery’ from other eras, for example some 1930’s builds have the fake Tudor beams on the outside that were copied from that time in history (mock Tudor)
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I’m not keen except on old houses. We once stayed in a room of Beatrix Potter’s where there was beautiful oak panelling in the bedroom. Now that I liked. I hated the trend for painting it and for painting beams.