Real knotty pine wood paneling from the 1950s is fabulous ... to brighten the space while maintaining the texture of the tongue-and-groove boards. Sometimes wood paneling can’t be painted.

In the 1930s, knotty pine tongue-in-groove and beadboard paneling began covering walls in dens and sun rooms. In the 1970s and early 1980s, paper veneer plywood paneling-large 4-by-8-foot sheets ...

pine rejected as too knotty at another site was trucked home and transformed into tongue-and-groove boards so the walls of Wild Oaks weren’t sullied by nails. Legend has it the projecting piece ...