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

There were corner beams and wainscots, some tiled chimney-pieces, even.

From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

The wainscots were of Irish yew, and the ceilings of cypress.

From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton

Dirty painted wainscots may be cleaned with a sponge wetted in potato water, and dipped in a little fine sand.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

The small rectangular plaques with which several cases and many drawers are filled in the British Museum may very well have been used for the decoration of doors, and the panels of ceilings and wainscots.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong

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

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

The walls were wainscotted to the ceiling with ancient oak, so that though the north light entered at four high windows the room seemed dark.

From Amabel Channice by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Thus we lived most luxuriously in that old wainscotted parlour, where there were scarcely three chairs fit to sit upon.

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Julia Kavanagh

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 Cosmo Hamilton

It was a warm wainscotted little room, with crimson carpet and crimson curtains, a good open fire of hickory wood, and a small, but luxuriously spread supper-table.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

And instead of recessed wall niches, she added shallow, surface-mounted bookshelves over the room’s wainscoting and wallpaper.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

The walls were all heavy wainscoting and damask wallpaper, while the four-poster bed was fitted with fine linen.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Cooke’s friends donated a truckload of 2-by-3s, and he made the wainscotting out of wood from an old fence.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

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 walls of the room have a 3-inch baseboard, but no wainscotting.

From The Fairfax County Courthouse by Ross De Witt Netherton