If you’re thinking about updating a room with wood-paneled walls, your instinct might be to start fresh, either by tearing out the paneling or by concealing it behind drywall. Both of these options ...

Q:How can I fill the cracks in wood paneling to smooth out the wall before painting? I guess the cracks are not cracks so much as grooves in plywood paneling. If I cannot use spackling compound, why ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Our living room has dark wood paneling that we would like to brighten. Should we paint or wallpaper it, and how do we do it? A: Painting is easiest, but ...

Question: My house has old paneling with vertical grooves, and I want to cover it with drywall and paint it. But I am not sure how to handle fitting the wood trim around the doors and windows. Do you ...

Q: The walls in my house were covered with paneling in the 1970s, and I am thoroughly sick of the wood look. Anything I do to redecorate the walls has to be easy and inexpensive. I’m not interested in ...

Dark wall paneling with grooves, so popular in the ’60s and ’70s, is being phased out by many homeowners because it robs rooms of precious natural light. While the thought of trading dark, dingy and ...

In a room with wood-paneled walls—particularly if that wood is a veneer—your instinct may be to start fresh, either by tearing out the paneling or by concealing it behind drywall. Both of these ...