wainscoating

Updated: July 28, 2026

On a dark morning the apartment was gloomy enough; the ceilings were low, crossed with heavy carved beams that made their want of height still more apparent; the upper portion of the walls were hung with dark crimson cloth, met half way down by a wainscoating of unpolished oak, dark and stained with age.

Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens - A Noble Woman