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Birch Paneling

Started by peterduncan, October 26, 2008, 07:16:49 AM

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peterduncan

We have property in Maine with a lot of paper birch on it. Has anyone ever used birch for paneling a room? Ia there a nice color stain for it?

Sprucegum

Unscrupulous furniture makers used to stain birch tables, chests, etc. and sell it as cherry or honduras mahogany or whatever other exotic name they could think of. It was nice looking stuff whether you knew the truth or not  ;)

To answer your question - Birch is a nce grained white wood, you can stain it any color you want. If you used an aniline dye there is quite a variety of colors to choose from.

mur

Hi Peter:

Paper birch (the white outer wood) is used for mostly flooring around here, North West BC, Canada.  I do make wall panel T&G v-joint with it (the knotty two tone wood) and it's very nice.  Paper birch can "blotch" if you colour stain it so make sure you put a "base coat" on the birch before you stain it.  This stops the blotching and evens out the stain colour.  There are various methods of accomplishing this. 

Mur
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