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

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

Though she had had time to grow accustomed to scratchings inside the wainscots at the Manor, she could not overcome her dread of rats.

From The Manor House School by Dixon, Arthur A.

They were well lighted by side windows, and the shelves and wainscots were coloured chiefly in white.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

They scuttled inside the walls, and squeaked behind the wainscots, and seemed to hold carnival at the back of the oak panelling, often disturbing the girls at night with the noise.

From The Manor House School by Dixon, Arthur A.

Two rooms on each side contain handsome mantels, paneled wainscots and other beautiful wood finish.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

Sudden domiciliary visits were made in search of concealed priests, usually in the dead of night: empty beds were examined, walls struck with mallets, rapiers thrust into the chinks of wainscots.

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

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

Still, though the décor is simple, it’s pleasant, with wainscoted walls dotted with vintage photographs of Williston Park.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2011

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

His room was large and square and wainscotted, with dull grilled ceiling, and an oak floor so old that here and there it slanted badly.

From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo

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 Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa

Bolingbroke House was a spacious edifice, said to have contained Bolingbroke house. fifty rooms on a floor, of which a few only remain; among which is the favourite apartment of Lord Bolingbroke, wainscotted with cedar.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell

They went into the brown parlour of the inn, the cheerful, wainscotted parlour, where Branwell had so often lorded it over his boon companions from his great three-cornered chair.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

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

An elegant wainscoting of polished carbon fiber stretches across the four doors, accented with aluminum bezels and wire-thin LED lighting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

Named for its historic 1920s chateau-esque building, Castle is a treasure box of prewar charm: lattice windows, crown molding, wainscoting, Art Deco tile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

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

He’d wanted inglenooks, somebody had said, and an overscaled fireplace and alcoves, built-in window seats and wainscoting, a battered porch base and low stone walls along his entrance walk.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Finer carved wood than the wainscotting of this small interior is far to seek.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock