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Originally Posted by Rick Sutton  Not sure this qualifies as paneling but it shows the wood treatment in my studio. The ceiling is also treated the same. |
Nice!
Come on guys... let's kick this thread into gear. With all the hundreds or thousands of pro studios out there covered with rich wood paneling, how can we not get a wood paneling discussion going here?
Everywhere I go or look, I cannot find good info / details regarding real wood paneling. It's like some sort of big mysterious secret. I sometimes go to studios and drool over the wood paneling, but nobody ever seems to know anything about it.
I'm wondering if paneling is a regional thing, maybe paneling is more abundant in predominantly wooded regions, and the demand in urban areas is not high enough to justify trucking it in? Maybe I need to go up into the backwoods of Maine or Vermont or whatever and search for a small custom paneling mill and have stuff trucked to my site...? But I can't imagine that everyone does this.
Or I'm wondering if wood paneling was just more abundant in years past when there was less focus on preserving the forests. Maybe the real wood paneling industry has been squeezed by conservationists and thus it's just harder to get a large selection of paneling now?
With all the beautiful real wood paneling I've seen out there in studios and other buildings, I would have thought I could easily find one or more distributors / lumber yards that would carry a large selection of all types / configurations of paneling. So I must be missing something.
Home Depot and my local lumber / paneling "super-store" DOES carry pine and cedar paneling, very limited selection of configurations though etc.... I hate the idea that my studio would have the same exact paneling as every other home in the area.
Anyone out there mill their own custom paneling? One thought is to buy pine planks from Home Depot, rip to custom sizes and then route a tongue and groove etc, essentially make my own paneling. In some studio pics it almost appears as if this is what had been done... and some studios seem to just have pine planks nailed up, sometimes with a small space in-between each (not T&G)... perhaps for acoustic purposes? Or just aesthetics? Anyone care to comment?
And we need more paneled studio room pics in this thread!!!
