Starching fabric to pine paneling? (floor, paint, ceiling, curtains)
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We have signed a lease on a home and are planning to move soon. It's an updated ranch house, but the owner has left a few of the "original" elements in place. The house has four bedrooms, the fourth of which has pine paneling on every wall floor to ceiling. He doesn't want us to paint it, which I totally understand (at one time I was working toward a masters degree in historic preservation). But I'm not sure that I can stand to look at the wood paneling for a year.
Has anyone ever tried to starch fabric to wood-paneled walls (like wallpaper, but with liquid starch)? I don't want to damage the walls in any way, as we like our landlord and respect his house. The only other alternative I can come up with is to string panels of floor to ceiling curtains along a wire attached at each corner with hooks (will still make small holes in the wall). But that method will require me to sew a bazillion panels and will also cost more due to using more fabric.
We have signed a lease on a home and are planning to move soon. It's an updated ranch house, but the owner has left a few of the "original" elements in place. The house has four bedrooms, the fourth of which has pine paneling on every wall floor to ceiling. He doesn't want us to paint it, which I totally understand (at one time I was working toward a masters degree in historic preservation). But I'm not sure that I can stand to look at the wood paneling for a year.
Has anyone ever tried to starch fabric to wood-paneled walls (like wallpaper, but with liquid starch)? I don't want to damage the walls in any way, as we like our landlord and respect his house. The only other alternative I can come up with is to string panels of floor to ceiling curtains along a wire attached at each corner with hooks (will still make small holes in the wall). But that method will require me to sew a bazillion panels and will also cost more due to using more fabric.
Thanks for any input!
I've done it, buts VERY messy. A better alternative is to use double sided tape to attach the fabric to the walls. Use stitch witchery or any of the products like it to seam back your selvages and raw edges at the top and bottom, works like a charm. My mom did that a lot in the houses I grew up in, and I have done it myself.
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