I am planning out my trophy room and was going to install wainscoting on tan/sand/khaki colored walls. What type of wood would you suggest? The room will contain both North American and African animals. Cost is a consideration.

Also, any considerations for pre-made bars other than: http://www.thomasville.com/Item4236.aspx
It is $4,488 on sale.

What size room, and are there lots of doors/windows or is it very contained? Often, too much wood is over-powering in a trophy room, and draws attention away from the mounts. When cost is also an issue, there is a real advantage to going with a really nice jute-type wall paper and contrasting color chair rail. Perhaps a natural finished, attractive wood rail would be all you need. Look at all these posts on trophy rooms, and see something you like.

As for bars, I can't help much. I'm a single malt Scotch and leather recliner in front of the fireplace type of guy.

I have pine wainscoting in my “Fortress of Solitudeâ€, stained with Minwax “provincial†stain. My room is in the basement which is plagued by low ceilings. I have plenty of light thanks to a walk out and a bay window, but floor to ceiling wood would have been to dark. Cathedral, or at least higher ceilings would eliminate the overhang problem with the Kudu and Gemsbok pictured below.

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Originally posted by SBT:
I am planning out my trophy room and was going to install wainscoting on tan/sand/khaki colored walls. What type of wood would you suggest? The room will contain both North American and African animals. Cost is a consideration.

Also, any considerations for pre-made bars other than: http://www.thomasville.com/Item4236.aspx
It is $4,488 on sale.

You can save a few bucks by using grooved birch plywood wainscoating rather than solid wood 1x6 "beadboard". It gives the same effect and looks really nice.


I am a cabinet maker and could save you a few bucks on the bar (if you lived much closer that is) but I don't quite know how to carve the little animal thingys.

Atticus, is that pine ply or solid wood? Either way it looks really great. If you did the work yourself...congrats.

When I built my Trophy Room, I covered the main East wall with 3/8"x3 1/4" T&G cedar in a herringbone pattern. The side walls are 9'9" high x 30' long and are painted grey over a swirl textured plaster. To give a contrast to the grey paint, and to tie the side walls to the main wall, I put a 29" high verticle wainscoat of the same cedar as the main wall. All the window, door, floor, and top of wainscoat moulding is dark stained oak.


As for the bar, when I built the Trophy Room, I also remodeled the kitchen, installing new cabinets. I used some of the old kitchen base cabinets for the bar. I found a small refridgerator the same height as the base cabinets, plumbed in a small sink, and covered the counter top and the bar top with ceramic tile. Everything is trimmed with solid oak. I used the dead space behind the corner cabinet to display a pheasant.


A look behind the bar:

I like rough cut cedar. It is what I have in my trophy room and throughout my house.

Splinter,
Good question, I'm not sure. It's pine bead board from a home center and it was pretty thin. I put it up with a friend of mine who is a carpenter.

Buffybr,
I recall your earlier post on your trophy room and it is spectacular!

You might consider ash panelling; and if you want to really make the place look good(in my opinion) install raised panel panelling. Ash has more grain than pine and I feel that it takes a finish better

Both rooms look great. Good work on both, not only on the decor, but the trophys as well.