Wainscoting Trim for Walls | Triangle New Home Builders

The best way to get ideas for your NC new home is from photos of recently completed Triangle area homes. See photos of all the ways you can add custom wall treatments, with wainscot panels, to any room:

What is wainscoting?

Wainscoting is a lower wall treatment that adds a more upscale, formal look to a room at minimal cost, with chair-rail molding, baseboard, and a series of trim pieces.

You'll most often find wainscoting in formal dining rooms, foyer entryways, hallways and powder rooms, but as you can see, creative designers can show you ways to add wainscoting details to kitchen islands, columns, and anywhere else you want to spotlight. 

White wainscoting walls:

Contemporary white 1x4 wainscoting trim with 2/3 wall height (and a coffer ceiling):

Traditional white picture frame wainscoting in a red formal dining room:

Not into white trim panels? These painted wainscoting styles might be for you:

Gray painted 1x4 trimmed wainscoting in the formal dining room and master bath:

Gold painted picture frame wainscoting in the powder room - a space where you're not limited to "bland" designs!

Picture Frame Wainscoting Ideas:

Small picture frames in the formal dining room:

Chair rail and picture frame wainscoting for the formal dining room:

Picture frame wainscoting in a brown formal dining room with octagonal trey ceiling:

Accent Wall Wainscoting Ideas:

Wainscoting wall in the master bath - above the freestanding tub:

Wainscoting accents above the fireplace: (see more fireplace wainscoting ideas here)

White wainscoting columns in the living room - how to turn a wall into a column using trim:

Wainscot accents in the master bathroom - see the header above the mirrors and column along the divider wall?

Accent wall in the kitchen hallway - 3/4 height beadboard wainscoting treatment:

Shiplap Wall Ideas:

Well, shiplap is not technically wainscoting - but it's a popular trim style for new homes!

We've seen a lot of shiplap designs over fireplaces, in mud rooms (as a drop zone) and on an accent wall in the kitchen or master bedroom.

Triangle New Homes:

What does it cost to build a new home with crown molding and wainscoting? Tell us which floor plan you'd like to know more about, and we'll tell you what it takes to build.

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