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

Now the old house had wainscots behind which the mice were always scampering, and squeaking, and rattling down the plaster, and enacting family scenes and parlor theatricals.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown

However, we may see the same sombre wainscots and low ceiling that Sterne knew, and we find the one room which interests us most—Sterne's parlor and study—littleSterne's Parsonage—Study changed.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

He has sat on the old chairs and sofas, and rubbed against the old wainscots, and leaned over the old balusters.

From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James

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

Tribunes, stairs and wainscots that formed a strange contrast with the rest of the edifice were added.

From Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg by Anonymous

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 man famous for drafting Daniel Jones sat in what looked to be a barren, wainscoted attic with a big-screen TV set atop a plastic folding table.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2020

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

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

It was still the same homely, green, wainscotted room, with high, narrow windows looking on to the terrace.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The room, which was not large, was wainscotted from ceiling to floor with spacious panels, divided one from the other by fluted pillars in shallow relief, after the fashion of that day.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

Mrs. Latournelle received Mary in a wainscotted parlour, hung round with miniatures and pieces of framed needlework done in chenille, representing tombs and weeping willows.

From The Fairchild Family by Florence M. Rudland

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

On the first floor, the front parlor, with its wooden wainscoting and classical door frames, is more elegant after conservation restored small details in the decorative moldings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

In his own bathroom, Nickey limited himself to papering the top part of the wall, above the tiled wainscoting.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

In one arresting work, attic wainscoting is a series of vertical black rectangles lined up one after the next against grayed ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

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

From "1984" by George Orwell

Now, chair rails, booths, wainscotting and window panes shine, restored to their original glory much like when Gus Carlson first built the hotel more than 100 years ago.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2021

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

The oak wainscotting and shelves were removed there piece by piece from the old library at the back, which faced north and had rather an uninteresting outlook towards the woods.

From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker