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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January. tqt2 
An old Colonial home where the panels themselves are extremely wide. We cannot secure such Millwork is saved here by omitting the 
widths in boards to-day rebate and bevel from the face. 
In certain types of interior — those not 
founded on classic lines- — moldings are omitted from all wood¬ 
work, as, for example, in the so-called craftsman type of houses. 
Paneling for such a house usually resolves itself into a series of 
strips, corresponding to the rails, laid directly on a flat surface 
of wood, such as is indicated in the fourth diagram. Paneling 
of this sort is less expensive than the tongue-and-groove kind 
because of the avoidance of millwork and close fitting. It is 
ordinarily laid out so that the joints of the under surface of wood 
will be concealed by the applied stripping. 
So much for wood paneling proper. In these days of high 
lumber prices, when clear, seasoned woodwork is one of the most 
costly elements in a new house, there have been many ways 
devised by w-hich the symptoms effect of wood paneling is se¬ 
cured with the aid of less expensive materials. In diagram 
No. 4, for example, instead of using wood throughout, a manu¬ 
factured product is often used as the under surfacing, nailed 
to the plastered wall. There are a number of such products on 
The chief element of cost in paneling is in the labor. This intricate 
design means expensive millwork and costly fitting together 
But let us look more closely into the various types of paneling. 
Until recent years the word paneling was understood to mean a 
very definite thing. It was a framework of wood strips, say 
four inches wide and one inch and an eighth thick—called rails 
or stiles, the enclosed rectangles of which were filled by thinner 
boards, beveled to an edge which was driven tightly into a cor¬ 
responding groove in the rail or stile. In its simplest form, a 
section of this paneling is shown in the second diagram. This 
is the type that we find in the Colonial homes of New England 
and the South, usually of white pine painted white. 
If the architect felt the need of further enrichment, or the 
client's appropriation showed no immediate signs of dwindling, 
an additional molding was incorporated into the design, used as 
a cover for the joint between panel and rail, as shown in the 
first diagram. Occasionally the work is found in a still simpler 
form, with or without a cover molding, as in the third diagram. 
The effect of a paneled room secured by applying wood molding to 
the plaster. The panels would have been more effective if narrower 
