We plan to re-do the interior of our 97. One option is to wallpaper the existing panels, which appear to have a "cushioned vinyl" finish. The decorator/wallpaper gal suggested "rough up the existing finish, fill in the seams, and install a Faux Finish (essentially thick paint)". This sounds great, as wallpaper WILL sooner or later come loose, esp around the windows.
She says she did this on one coach earlier this year and it worked great.
Please offer your thoughts and advice. Have any of y'all seen either of these treatments? (Replacing the panels is not being considered now.)

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"You are what you drive" - Clint Eastwood

Look at the before and after interior shots of my Barth. It is all paint and paneling. I painted the top 2/3 and then put paneling 1/2 way up. I used some rail molding trim to seperate the two halfs.

When you paint, the first two or three coats look terrible. The final coat came out really nice. If you do paint, don't get upset with the first few coats like I did. The material that you are painting will take several coats. It looked like I was painting it with a roll of toilet paper and a broom. Very scarry until that final coat and then WOW!

The material on the coach's interior was like a sheet of thin wrapped slick wallpaper. I almost redid the interior with full paneling for fear that the paint wouldn't take.





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1991 Barth Regal
460 EFI C6 Transmission
33' Oshkosh/John Deere Chassis

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[This message has been edited by Bill (edited January 01, 2006).]

On our '90 Regency, we painted the sidwalls. It took two coats. Then in the galley and back aisle, we used the heavy lincrusta wallpaper. Here is a web site about how to hang the wallpaper. http://www.fyhome.com/analininstructions.htm
We then painted the wallpaper. Granted it was not easy - I will soon have photos to post on the new interior of our coach. It certainly lightens the interior.

Thom

1990 Regency Widebody 38'
300 Cat / Gillig

Good source-site for heavy vinyl wall covering products:

http://www.vinylbydesign.com/site/page.asp?TrackID=&VID=1&CID=123&DID=133

I stripped the wallpaper from my kitchen walls. It was a rediculous effort. They put this stuff one the bare wood. I wish I would have just painted over it. I had the foil kind. I went to Home Depot after two day of stripping and ripping. They have some special stuff to paint over the foil and then you can paint it

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