Hi elinitha, this will be the laminex impression decor 'weathered oak' which has both visual (white ingrained) and tactile texture. It will be used horizontally in a beach house. This colour I would recommend your timber feature also, as it looks natural, as in no staining or lacquered aesthetic, and as a finished product, no maintenance, fading and is more durable than a genuine timber product.

No, no and no. Once timber is painted it is really hard to get back to the original. Give it a thorough clean, live with it for a year, and then decide if it still needs to be vandalised to fit your contemporary aspirations. It seems so strange that you have purchased a house that is almost 100 years old, with lots of light and period charachter, and which has had lots of people live in it before you bought it, and they never needed to paint the timber panelling. If you paint your timber panelling then the people who live in your home after you have sold it will curse our current contemporary trend of whiting out all our timber. While you are the new owner, you are also the custodian of this piece of history, and sometime in the future you will be selling your period home to new custodians. Once this current contemporary trend fades then do you plan on repainting it to fit the next current contemporary trend? Love your period home for what it is, and please don't vandalise it to match contemporary trends. Dr Retro of Dr Retro House Calls.

Look for Wenge Laminex, you can use it vertical or horizontal, we did this years ago with galley kitchen cabinets, it comes in several timber looks https://receptioncountersaustralia.com/products/new-york-oak-panelled-counter?variant=32050645073992&currency=AUD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&utm_campaign=gs-2020-04-30&utm_source=google&utm_medium=smart_campaign&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkuP9BRCkARIsAKGLE8XrtyO3xL06WQVJFKP3yuhFgeuxwgHWMS9SG8wlEPhVyktXFAwDwrsaAqlTEALw_wcB

"Believe me, if money was no option I would put new vj over it!" "I wasn't planning on changing the orientation of the grooves," Thanks Alison. Keeping the tight budget in mind I was looking at those two lines. I got wanting to update the look or tone down the colour, but thought if the grooves and their orientation aren't really a problem why fix it? Though reading back I see I missed there were consecutive replies and in the previous one Tania said she wished they were vertical or horizontal. Diagonal isn't on trend right now but wait lomg enough and it will probably will be again. I don't think it's a simple matter of vertical or horizontal, the choice of which could affect the room because anything striped has an effect. Maybe even a mix, one on the forward wall and the other on the receding walls? I like your suggestion to reuse the boards. It might need a few extra boards by the time they're cut and moved but it would achieve the desired result with less cost and wastage and I suspect it while it's not a small job it would still be easier than all that gap filling and smoothing.