[WOODPIE]

Likewise regarding the painting, it'll stick just fine if the paneling is clean, and use a good primer. This little ****box we moved into five years ago sported wood paneling in every room, and an even more (ahem) economical paneling in the kitchen and bath. It is all painted now, holding up very well, and we're satisfied.

Just to break things up a little, we took out all the moulding in the guest and master bedrooms, replaced it with new baseboard, door and window casing, crown, and chair rail. Same patterns in both rooms, but cherry in the guest, red oak in the master. Below the chair rail we painted a Van Dyke brown in the oak room, a baked bean (deep orangy-red) in the cherry room. Above the chair rail both rooms in a ivory tone. Ceiling flat white.

Makes the small rooms look a little bigger.

Just throwing out ideas.

Ed