The thickness of the walls in houses of brick and stone encouraged the custom of paneling the jambs and soffit of doorway openings to correspond with the paneling of the doors, the effect being rich and very pleasing.
One notices there also the beautiful beveled paneling of the window embrasures, the paneled soffit of the Palladian window and its built-in seat.
The paneling of the door consists of pairs of small and large panels in alternation, the upper pair of large panels being noticeably higher than the lower pair.
The parlor at Stenton is among the most notable instances in Philadelphia of this architectural treatment of the fireplace in a room with wood paneling throughout.
Generally similar, the doorway of the old Shippen mansion, Number 1109 Walnut Street, with its straight flight of stone steps unadorned in any way, is less attractive except in the paneling of the doors.
There are similar scroll-pattern stair ends and panelingunder the stairs.
Paneled jambs were let into the reveals of the opening, and whatever the panel arrangement of the door, a corresponding arrangement was followed in paneling the jambs and the soffit of the arch or flat lintel above.
Incidentally it furnishes an excellent example of the complete paneling of one end of a room with the familiar six-panel ordinary inside doors each side of the fireplace.
Toward the end of that century, and for several decades following, the shelf was omitted and the paneling on the chimney breast took the form of two horizontally disposed oblongs, the upper broader than the lower.
The spacing and workmanship displayed in this heavily beveled and molded panelingcould hardly be better.
Of more modest, but generally similar treatment, is the paneling of the reception room at Stenton, the fireplace opening here having been closed for installation of a Franklin stove.
We go abroad, and see the magnificent paneling of old English houses, and we come home and copy it.
On the wall opposite the fireplace there was a broad paneling of the same width filled with a mirror from baseboard to ceiling.
The severe beauty of English paneling and the carving of newel-post and spindles are having a just revival.
The same sort of room invites wood paneling and tapestry, whereas the ideal room for painted walls in a lighter key is the ballroom, or some such large apartment.
The ground of the paneling was deep yellow, and all the little birds and flowers surrounding the central design were done in the very brightest, strongest colors imaginable.
For north rooms I am strongly inclined to the use ofpaneling in our native American woods, that are so rich in effect, but alas, so little used.
The paneling in Uncle Jasper's study was as solid as the Great Wall of China.
The room where the commissioners met, with its paneling reaching to the ceiling and its wealth of antique carving, is little changed, though it has been divided by a partition into a writing- and a dining-room.
Inside there are rooms with much antique paneling and solid oaken beams which support the ceilings.
There is muchpaneling and elaborate wood-carving on the walls and mantels of many of the rooms, and one may be quite lost in the devious passageways that lead to odd nooks and quaint, irregular apartments.
That concealed door in the paneling with the armed guard lurking behind was sufficiently plain evidence that he was not the fearless Governor-General that was popularly supposed.
He consulted his plan, took several measurements, and then tapped on the paneling all along this wall, as though he were searching for some hidden cupboard or hiding place.
A moment later the "Strangler's" personal protector had disappeared through that secret door in the paneling by which he had entered.
Send out this man," I said, pointing to the detective Malkoff, who had appeared from behind the paneling of the audience-chamber.
A patch in the paneling of the front door shows where a cannon ball passed through at the time of the bombardment, and the ball itself may still be seen embedded in the woodwork of one of the rooms within.
Walls were paneled and painted, with paneling and cornice enriched by painted compo ornament.
Westmore's massive brick walls had withstood time, as had the heavy oak paneling of dining-room, hall and drawing-room.
He beat with an emaciated fist on the paneling and called, "Roselle!
The entire room has a cornice molding of stained wood, matching the paneling used for the stairs, the fireplace, and the built-in cabinets flanking the fireplace.
The overmantel and paneling around the living room fireplace and over the doorway connecting the living room and sunporch came from a tavern near Peace Cross, Maryland, where it had been used as shuttering.
According to the renovator, the paneling for the doorway connecting the living room and library came from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The newel post and the balusters and the paneling under the first run of the stair are original, and the sheathing from that point up into the hall is a design, and was made right on the job by our carpenters.
One of the shots went into the shutters, and the hole made by this shot is still visible in the portion of the shutter used as paneling in the living room.
One thing only I found—the slight scar of a hammer-head on the oak paneling that ran around the bedroom.
Carved in the heavy oak paneling above the fireplace, in large Old English letters, was the inscription: The Spirit of Man is the Candle of the Lord and on either side great candelabra sent long arms across the hearth.
The room in which I was installed had a lofty ceiling with Eighteenth Century paneling and it was furnished in the same period.
It was a vast place with gilt paneling and was lighted from the colonnaded peristyle of the theater on the Place de la Monnaie.
Yet, as I looked, something in the carved paneling struck my notice, and, following the direction in which the spectral finger had pointed, I saw that the dragons and the twisted scrolls were united in the center by a Tudor rose.
And if we didn't find treasure behind the paneling we certainly ought to have done so.
In the hallway, the white staircase, with its mahogany rail, is deeply paneled at the sides, and if you stand beneath the stairway where it turns, you see still more careful paneling on the under side of each stair.
And the rooms inside, with their high white paneling and delicate beading around the top, have dignity in every line.
It lay between the great library-table which, standing horizontally, almost halved the room, and the narrow strip of paneling of wall to the right of the main door in which the superintendent had pressed the button for the lights.
The paneling of Catherine de' Medici's closet, of which more particular mention will presently be made, is the last relic of the rich furnishing collected by five artistic kings.
A white earthenware stove in one corner of the room gave out a pleasant warmth; paneling of unvarnished pine covered the walls, and there was no other decoration.
Val had sounded what panelingthere was, but as he had no idea what a hollow panel should sound like if rapped, he inwardly decided that he was not exactly fitted for such investigations.
And yet, when Val had gone over thepaneling there inch by inch, he had gained nothing but sore finger tips.
There behind the paneling was a shallow closet which ran the full length of the five panels.
As Val's feet touched the floor of the hall he caught his last glimpse of it, a thin white patch against the solid paneling of the stairway's broad side.
The splendid dark-oak paneling that reached to the ceiling of the dining room and the richly carved mantel-piece, they told us, were once in rooms of Ludlow Castle.
Some of the apartments on the second floor retain much of their elaborate oak paneling and there are several fine mantel-pieces.
XIII At first I could scarcely believe my eyes--but there was the space where once the beautiful picture had hung, the gape showing the paneling behind all too plainly.
To begin with it was almost round and very large, the ceiling being domed and the books being carried in long narrow stacks sunk into the paneling between the French windows as high as the carved molding.
And then the manservant ushered me into a magnificent anteroom done in gold paneling and mauve velvet upholstery, most beautiful and in the best of taste.
I stared after him hard, feeling that I would like to watch him through the thick oaken paneling if only I might.
As most of these books require simply author, title and call number, if one be used, the device of paneling adds to the labor in binding and serves no useful purpose in the library.
Paneling is a useful device in the case of books which are eight inches or more in height, but in the case of juvenile books and fiction it may be omitted entirely.
The elevator had darkpaneling and smelled of freshness, partly fresh wood and partly fresh lacquer.
The paneling and wainscot were burnished mahogany, and the floor was a mix of hardwoods worked into an isometric design.
Instantly, the window had vanished, the wood paneling again covered the wall.
But the paneling in any of the rooms might slide aside to reveal one at the indicated time, or a section of the floor might swing back above a trap door.
The paneling above the mantel shelf presents an interesting variation in the framing of fireplaces.
The fireplace and paneling hold the attention in this room.
In these operations a number of unexpected discoveries were made concerning the fine old paneling and great, hand-hewn beams that had been entirely covered up.
In taking a "secret" cupboard out of a closet, there was discovered some paneling that had been plastered and papered over.
In each of the recesses is a small window above the paneling and window-seat.
The paneling was painted just off the white, and the walls were hung with soft, gray paper with tiny pink flowers, making the color scheme of the room gray and pink.
There was beautiful old wainscoting and paneling of wide boards, some of which was split from logs at least thirty inches in width.
This was because the paneling was originally made from wainscot oak which was well grained and without knots.
Under the paper was a wide paneling of white pine, so good that it needed only a slight restoration.
Underneath the old paper was found fine wood paneling which was scraped and painted white; next the fireplace was opened, and proved to be eight feet wide with a swinging crane at the back.
Illustration: A Corner in the Dining Room] The dining-room was made from a part of the old kitchen and strangely enough shows fine paneling of white pine, which has been carefully preserved and makes a background for the mantel ornaments.
At the end, the old kitchen chimney has been utilized for a fireplace, and old paneling inserted above the high mantel.
The same paneling of the wainscot and the same paper above, seen through the double doorway, give the impression that this is all part of the one room, and the placing of a buffet in front of the opening enhances the effect.
The paneling about it is very simple, but the proportions are interesting, and the quaint, double-panel cupboards on each side lend the whole an insistent charm.
Door-frames as well as the wainscot betoken the age of the house, for in the earlier ones doors are perfectly plain in finish, elaboration in design of paneling and wood-carving coming into play at a little later period.
The next day, January 5, after its deck paneling was opened, the skiff was wrenched from its socket and launched to sea from the top of the platform.
Its deck paneling opened, the skiff was wrenched from its socket and launched to sea.
We must pretend we have found it in the long gallery; there is a recess in the paneling which no one knows of but I, and there we can put it and find it again.
It blew down a narrow piece of the paneling in the long gallery--it is next to my room, you know--and I heard the noise in the night and lit a candle and went to see.
