Saturday, August 6, 2011

pecky cypress

 i love my house...i really do. it has been a work in progress and that makes me love it even more. but...we have one room that I don't know if I will ever be happy with....because it has paneling. I am a light, bright, and airy person and this room just...isn't. 
 i had melaine from my sweet savannah help me with making it look brighter and it does look sooooooo much better. we talked about painting the paneling, but brian is NOT for it. and i'll tell you why. the wood has DEEP grooves and holes in it...like so deep you may end up using half a can of paint to get the hole fully covered. we searched and searched trying to find pictures to compare..but had no luck. so we were  at a standstill not knowing what to do. then a friend of mine came over, took one look at it and said..."oh! that's pecky cypress. i wouldn't paint it. it's very expensive."
WHAT?

so i googled it..and sure enough.....she was right....there was our wall. 

and here is what the tree itself looks like before the wood is cut...

and the weird thing is...the more i read about it, the more people raved about it and how beautiful it is...just check out this article...


so now...brian says we have to DEFINITELY leave it. and i'm sad. so i'm hoping for an alternative. like instead of painting...if there was a way to make the stain much much lighter and keep my whites in the room..and it could potentially go with my "beachy/cottage/farmhouse" look.

just for comparision...here is a pic of painted pecky cypress, but ours runs vertical instead of horizontal.

and here is ours...


focus on the wall..because this room doesn't even look like this anymore! ha! maybe i have a problem! :)

soooo....if anyone has any suggestions...i would love to hear them....

or maybe i should just listen to brian and..."leave well enough alone".....

happy weekend!



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  2. Why did you remove my comment. Good grief, no sense of humor.

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  3. I have pecky cypress in two of my rooms too! I'm not in love with it either but can't bring myself to paint it. Did you ever do anything with it? I'd love an update!

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  4. it looks like your pecky cypress has a light stain on it
    its not unfinished. it would look great painted white. dont try to fill the voids with paint just dab a bit.

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  5. Let a professional remove the pecky cypress and sell it. It is way too valuable to be painted. Then you can have some regular drywall put up and paint it a light color you desire. Everyone wins.

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  6. You should grey wash it! Don't paint it.

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