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Hi all.
Our house (c. 1800) has dado rails in the two ground floor rooms (one huge rail, one quite modest) and up the stairs but not in any of the other rooms. There are picture rails throughout.
I have read on this site that dado rails became popular in the mid 19th c. but also read the reverse (on this same site!).
From looking at various examples, it certainly seems there was a fashion for panelling upto dado height (as we have in the hallway) but if there was no panelling, would a rail typically have been fitted?
A lot of joinery in our house is more recent (ie all the shutter boxes are gone with 20 C. splayed reveals fitted) so I am not assuming that any of it is original or otherwise.
Thanks
Craig
Our house (c. 1800) has dado rails in the two ground floor rooms (one huge rail, one quite modest) and up the stairs but not in any of the other rooms. There are picture rails throughout.
I have read on this site that dado rails became popular in the mid 19th c. but also read the reverse (on this same site!).
From looking at various examples, it certainly seems there was a fashion for panelling upto dado height (as we have in the hallway) but if there was no panelling, would a rail typically have been fitted?
A lot of joinery in our house is more recent (ie all the shutter boxes are gone with 20 C. splayed reveals fitted) so I am not assuming that any of it is original or otherwise.
Thanks
Craig