wainscot

Named for its historic 1920s Chateauesque building, Castle is a treasure box of prewar charm: lattice windows, crown-molding, wainscot, Art Deco tile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Install them floor to ceiling or only halfway up as a wainscot, then cap it with a wood chair rail.

From Time ● Mar. 12, 2015

The walls are covered with red silk damask and decorated with wainscot panelling.

From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014

Four bedroom, two baths, 2,300 square-feet; four fireplaces, grand entrance hall, wood floors, high ceilings, wainscot walls, clawfoot tub, walk-in pantry, updated kitchen, ceiling fans, central heat and air conditioning.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 4, 2014

Werner glances around: a trunk, a box of linens, the pale blue of the walls and the rich white of the wainscot.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The small rectangular plaques with which several cases and many drawers are filled in the British Museum may very well have been used for the decoration of doors, and the panels of ceilings and wainscots.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong

Ten years' dust lay on the carpets, on the chairs and tables; cobwebs hung from the ceilings, mice played games in the deep wainscots, for no one ever came here.

From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai

Sudden domiciliary visits were made in search of concealed priests, usually in the dead of night: empty beds were examined, walls struck with mallets, rapiers thrust into the chinks of wainscots.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Within, the finest sight is the grand old banqueting hall, with its gallery for minstrels, its Elizabethan oak-screen, and wainscots by Inigo Jones.

From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New

Dirtied painted wainscots may be cleaned by wetting a sponge in the liquor, then dipping it in a little fine clean sand, and afterwards rubbing the wainscot with it.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

As if to underscore the radical turn these artists were making, the paintings are hung on an ornate plum-red wallpaper in a wainscoted gallery that harks back to the Grand Palais’s look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Inside, with its wainscoted white walls and dark oak floors, it’s as luxurious and well-appointed as a Four Seasons hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

The gray-on-gray wainscoted dining room is quite pleasant, and so, too, looked the outdoor patio on such a fine summertime’s evening.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

The 10-foot-high ceilings have ornate, botanically themed moldings; the walls are wainscoted; and the floors retain their original geometric two-tone marquetry.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

She led Desdemona down a long, wainscoted corridor, through a telephone operator’s office, and into another darker hallway.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

With a globe on his desk and roll-down maps on the wall of his elegantly wainscotted office, he could be found high in the iconic Chrysler Building in the heart of New York City.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2016

Bolingbroke House was a spacious edifice, said to have contained Bolingbroke house. fifty rooms on a floor, of which a few only remain; among which is the favourite apartment of Lord Bolingbroke, wainscotted with cedar.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

The principal room, which was wainscotted with oak, was 120 feet long, and one of the rooms, supposed to have been an oratory, was painted in imitation of marble.

From Chelsea The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant

Its walls were hung with beautiful tapestries wrought in historical scenes, and its rooms were elegantly furnished and elaborately wainscotted.

From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Mary Wilson Alloway

He had never thought of examining the walls of the haunted room—it was wainscotted, he said—and might be lined all through with secret cupboards, for all he knew.

From Uncanny Tales by Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth

Other impressive features found in the space included original teak plank flooring, an original marble staircase, and original picture moldings and wainscoting.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Intruders have set fires, burning holes in the floors and scorching wood wainscoting and pews. Empty beef jerky bags, discarded underwear and clumps of plaster litter the worn burgundy carpeting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

An elegant wainscoting of polished carbon fiber stretches across the four doors, accented with aluminum bezels and wire-thin LED lighting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

And instead of recessed wall niches, she added shallow, surface-mounted bookshelves over the room’s wainscoting and wallpaper.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

“Here’s where that brute stuck his nose out,” she said, kicking the wainscoting immediately below the picture.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Cooke’s friends donated a truckload of 2-by-3s, and he made the wainscotting out of wood from an old fence.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

They fixed up the twenty-six-seat dining room, putting in wainscotting and a bar made from a farmhouse floor.

From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019

They might be in the wainscotting, but they’re putting it out there.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2014

We are – and you brought us out of the wainscotting like so many freaky old bastards.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013

Note the marble wainscotting, and the finely conceived and executed allegorical paintings and mosaics on walls and roof.

From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New