Painting Interior Log Walls

Additionally apply painter s tape to the edges of your walls molding and door frames to make sure you work in straight neat lines.

Painting interior log walls.

The interior sides of the walls were already painted when we moved into our 1935 log cabin and i can t imagine them being wood. To paint an interior wall start by protecting your floors and furniture by putting down painter s canvases. And if you hate it it is easier to replace the log siding wall versus covering a full log wall. Examples of painted.

Typically you ll see one wall painted to serve as a focal spot or an accent wall. Just 1 maybe 2 of the smaller walls instead. Typically log homes have interior framed walls that can be covered with matching log siding so you may want to paint the log siding walls only. Then pour primer in your paint tray and use a paint brush to line the outer edges of your walls with it.

I have no interest in painting all or even most of the log walls inside our house. Options certainly abound but with the right selection you ll step into your completed project and sigh with relief that it looks just as you imagined. You could leave them to darken naturally over time or apply a stain or clear finish to enhance the color and texture of the logs. If you have a true log cabin you might want to preserve the rustic character of the interior of the log walls.

Another option would be to whitewash the walls. Our living room would look like a dungeon. But now it looks like a 30 s bungalow that happens to have a few walls made of logs.