Horizontal paneling indoors

[Slottsfrun]

Building an Attefall house. Horizontal white grooved panel indoors on the walls. I’m not sure if I’ve made a really stupid mistake… The panels are enough to place full panel lengths on the walls, i.e., not installing floating with cut joints here and there. I therefore asked the carpenter to install full panel lengths without joints.

Now, in hindsight, I hear from the house seller that the panels should be installed floating. I thought that it might look best to avoid joints…. When I look at the walls now, I realize it might have been aesthetically nicer with joints?!

What do you think? What’s done is done, but I need encouragement that everything will be okay and hopefully that someone has done it like me…

 

[ArneTW]

Seamless is always best!

If you don’t want to flaunt your wall, you can always put up a vertical board and pretend you’re hiding a general seam.

Or take a pencil and ruler and make some fake seams.

However, I think you’ll forget everything once you've put up shelves/pictures/furniture/lighting, etc. etc.

/ATW

 

[surris]

Building an Attefall house. Horizontal white tongue and groove paneling indoors on walls. Not sure if I made a really stupid mistake... The paneling is enough to place whole panel lengths on the walls, i.e., not placing it floating with cut joints here and there. Therefore, I asked the carpenter to set whole panel lengths, without joints.

In hindsight, I hear from the seller of the house that the paneling should be placed floating. I might have thought completely wrong that it would look best to avoid joints... When I look at the walls now, I realize that it might have been aesthetically nicer with joints?!

What do you think? What's done is done, but I need encouragement that everything will be fine and preferably that someone writes that they've done as I have...

By floating, he must mean that there shouldn't be general joints. Every day of the week and for the rest of life, one should try to avoid butt joints both on paneling outdoors and indoors.