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

At the push of a button, the lifts open and close, floor-indicator lights blink, and chimes ping, as if an office tower staffed by Lilliputian drones were hidden behind the wainscot.

From Architectural Digest ● Nov. 4, 2014

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

From Economist ● Sep. 18, 2014

“Emma,” said she, “this paper is worse than I expected. Look! in places you see it is dreadfully dirty; and the wainscot is more yellow and forlorn than any thing I could have imagined.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

I fear the noise made by my men, not to speak of the turning about of your chambers by taking up of boards and trying of wainscots, shall greatly incommode you if you tarry.”

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

Old paintings on its wainscots, And, in its oaken hall, Old arras; and the twilight Of slumber over all.

From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein

They broke all my wainscots, pulled up the flooring, and almost wrecked the house the last time they came; and I don’t suppose they will be less vigilant this time.”

From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by W. (William) Rainey

She assured him that the noise was nothing, and the little novelties of holes in her dining-room floor and broken wainscots in her drawing-room would be rather amusing than otherwise.

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

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

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

There was not even the quaint elegance of Mr. Linden's room; this one was wainscotted with light blue and whitewashed, and furnished with the simplest of chintz furniture.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner

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

Sir Ralph had summoned Mr Groocock to the library, a fine old wainscotted room, with bookcases against two of the walls, while over and on either side of the fireplace were hung family portraits.

From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene

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

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

The passage down which he led them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all exquisitely clean.

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

After the time of the Countess Anne, the castle was neglected, and much of the stone, timber, and lead disposed of at public sales: the wainscotting being purchased by the neighbouring villagers.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by William Wordsworth