When we bought this lovely mid-century modern house a few years ago, my only real complaint was “I hate that fucking wall!”
Short term solution was to bury it behind bookshelves, but it’s still there… LURKING. It irks me just knowing it’s still there, that half-assed wainscoting made of plywood strips and blue paint.
At a minimum, my plan is to pull the plywood off and re-paint before putting the bookracks back, but there has to be something nicer.
Maybe something like this above the bookracks where the wall is exposed? I dunno. I’m open to ideas.
I’m betting that behind it is drywall. It looks like someone just wanted an accent wall for I’m guessing furniture(chairs) to not bang against a softer material like drywall. I’d check behind it first, you might get a nice surprise.
What they did was staple a horizontal slat, then some extra vertical slats, and painted the bottom half of the wall blue.
It’s all plaster except for the crappy wood slats they stapled on. LOL.
I found some old photos from before they did this, it was a perfectly fine wall. Maybe a little plain, but fine!
Just remove them and give it a coat of paint then. Or are you wanting to change it to something else thats not plaster?
That’s the minimalist basic plan, yeah. Hoping to do something complimentary above the bookshelves though.
Maybe art?