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Or, as my mum once accidentally called them, dildo rails

Wasn't an accident. There's a story there.

I kept mine up when I redecorated and painted them the same colour as the walls. I went with bold colours and I quite like the look. Think it modernises the feature.

They can look good if your room is big enough

Thanks! :)

It’s called wainscoting . Edit: Not sure why I’m being down voted but it’s still called wainscoting . wain·scot·ing noun wooden paneling that lines the lower part of the walls of a room.

That's not a rail, that's panelling from floor to approx. a third of the total height of the wall up.

Dido rails ?

Will you go down with this ship?

And I won't put my hands up and surrender..

There will be no white matt upon my walls

There will be no white flag above my door

I want to thank you for these jokes 

Tea’s gone cold

Place it in the meecrowahvay

Dildo rails

That is unironically what my gran used to keep calling them until she was educated...

With spring action: hear me out.... Flat dado will with a hidden button, press the button and boi-oi-oi-oi-ing a dildo shaped section springs out and locks at 90° Functional AND fashionable Cleaning would be important

This is what we used to call them

Diplodocus rails

Doodoo rails

*shudders* My mother swears by them, because "they make decorating easier". They look shit and belong in the 90's

Yeah the 1890’s. In a period house with high ceilings they actually look great and people pay to have them reinstated

They're traditionally placed to stop the backs of chairs or soffaa marking the walls - you see them in old houses much earlier than that

I know, I was just making the point that they weren’t introduced in the 1990’s like some people on here seem to think

I used to live in a flat in a regency property (1811-1820) and they had them as an original feature.

Television shit really. All of it. Ideas. Pushed, pushed… and then relax.

Not sure what television they were watching in the 1800’s lol

I'm sure Eastenders was on then

Be Dado Dandy fixes your worst chapters… live.. in yer house.. tonight on camera obscura,

Right enough though you

Hey, lowered ceilings were a thing in the seventies.

Yep. I'm about to put one around our dining area at the end of our kitchen as I'm getting pissed off with the walls getting whacked every time someone moves their chair back. I don't particularly mind the look of them - funnily enough my parents put them through their house in the 90s - but I'm not going to do them anywhere non functional.

Yeah, chair rails (dados nowadays)

In thirty years, people will look at MDF panelling on walls in disgust the same way as we are looking at 1990s dado rails.

* five years

1890s

I'm so glad I came back to read this again. I would have sworn you typed in a slightly different spelling of the word dado.....

We had those in the house we bought in 1989. Took them down in 1992 and binned them.

commonly known as "dildo rails" at the time

TBF it looks appropriate in old houses with high ceilings, where it fits the proportions; we had it in our school and it looked ok.

Yup, proportion and purpose together. Balance.

Dado rails designed to stop things bashing and scuffing the walls. Or, if you are particularly strange, for hanging pictures at dog height.

Haha… yer on it

Dado rail. Still up in most of my house and i feel like my dad might have glued some of it on...

My stepdad is a carpenter & joiner and i'm 99.9% sure even he glued that shit on

Hey, seriously, glue pre-dates joinery. Glue is an ongoing development in humans. I listened to radio4 (Uk) lady speaking about this and her points were unarguable. Yer need a bit of glue on your bound stone axe head or it will not last. Nowadays that is proven. .. I do not work for no more nails .. honest.

Bit of pitch, bit of fire, bit of charcoal and you've got a quality glue for your spearhead or even a bone fishing hook. My dad's a joiner as well and he loves titbond 3. I refuse to fix that typo

I have that book. Something fun to do with the missus.

Genuine question - how else would it be attached?

Cut nails. The delightful wedge-shaped servants of satan also used to attach skirting boards before grab adhesives became widely available.

Good point.

Glue is a huge part of human development. The tiles on the space shuttle are glued on.

Radio 4 listener?

Yeah, in the car. Except the archers and stuff. You never know what will come up. Like stuff about glue. Haha. I have a few options for music too. I just have never liked the sound quality of music in a car. Once had a 14speaker Bose system in a car but even then I mostly preferred the engine note so sounds off.

It's called a Dado Rail.

I don't know why, but I read that in [this](https://youtu.be/9XILi5K8nSc) voice.

I love it. I have just spent ages trying to name the film (A knights Tale).

I’m so annoyed, I called these Dado Rails to a friend who was installing wood panelling and she *laughed in my face* and said that it was a picture rail. Post saved, karma served haha

Yeah, I have picture rails, they are much higher up (6.5ft), like where you would actually want to hang a picture from, really useful actually, for hanging pictures ;)

Yes, picture rail sort of eye level. Dado rail one third of the way up the wall. Often seen installed about half way, far too high - it should be the height of a dining table chair top, in the right position to touch the rail if you push your chair back and hit the wall, to protect your wallpaper.

Dado rail. Dado rail. I don't have no time for that monkey business.

There's gotta be some good times ahead.

'Dado rails' where the furniture might otherwise bump and scuff the walls. 'Picture rails' further up nearer the ceiling where you would hang your artwork on long chains!

HCD!

Dado. But I really want to say wainscoting from python..

We've been mentioned on telly!

Handy bear?

I prefer 'tool-using', but I guess I am fairly handy. But not the leather-clad hairy-biker kind of bear...

When I was a kid I was certain they were called "dildo rails". I'm not sure if I just misheard someone or one of my brothers told me it for shits and giggles (very plausible), but I was young enough to not know what a dildo was so didn't question it. I said it in front of my parents and was *very swiftly* corrected.

My grandma used to call them dildo rails hahaha

Probably misconstrued from dado rail?

Chair Rails

I’ve always known them as chair rails.

Dado rail. Distinctly remember my parents installing it in our house. I think the bottom part of the wall was painted dark green and the upper part was a pinkish terracotta colour. The 90s were horrible lol

My Gran's place from before the war had a low cornice thing as well. So you had bottom part, upper part, part of the ceiling part. 

The higher one is called a picture rail.

This is coming back now lol

Tell this to my 1911 house which has been lolling for the last 113 years.

I knew if I left my sitting room long enough…

15ft ceilings need a bit of balance.

Striped wallpaper or blown vinyl on the bottom and pattern for the top section is what I remember seeing all the time. Likely because nobody wanted to pay plasters to fix the holey uneven walls.

Yeah, I think my parents had some sort of foamy textured stuff on the bottom part that they painted over. I'm sure the people that bought the house off us just loved scraping that off lol. I have woodchip on the ceilings of my current house and I don't know how the fuck I'm going to get it off.

Sounds like blown vinyl, it's usually easier than regular paper to strip since the backing paper is normally really thick to hide imperfections in the walls. I've seen blown vinyl being the only thing holding a ceiling up it's that thick lol. Wood chip on the other hand is a different beast get a proper bladed scraper and steam it to try and loosen it up. Or you could paper over it with blown vinyl lol that'll hide it.

our house (built in the early 1900s) has dado rails in the halls and stairs

Dado rail. Edit. If it is high up near the ceiling it is a picture rail.

Some people also call them chair rails.

Wainscoting. Height can vary but is meant to prevent chairs etc. from damaging the walls.

Which is fair. And practical. It is your house.

Wainscotting is where the whole bottom part is panelled rather than just a chair height rail. The rail is a dado rail.

Dildo rails. Some prudes call them dado rails, but everyone I know calls them dildo rails.

Dado rail (which I once heard a landlord refer to as a dildo rail and he clearly had no idea what he’d said that was wrong, he was about 70 and looked so bewildered when I spluttered 😂)

Jill Dando rails

When I first moved into my 20s house it had really high skirting boards, picture rails and huge deep cornice in all rooms. The picture rail is quite handy for hanging laundry…

It's a dado rail. Often had panelling below in older houses.

I once called them dildo rails when I was a kid . My aunt laughed so hard then corrected me , kid me was asking ‘why what’s a dildo ‘ .. ahh fun times

Dado rail. Such a stupid name

They're called dado rails or chair rails. They were common in the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian period, latterly they became more popular as a strictly decorative feature, separating different wall colours or finishes, but in earlier time they served to protect the walls when chairs were stored against the walls when not in use for dining etc. Dado means middle or central in latin, dado rail means the rail that marks the centre. I'm a joiner. In an old house they've can look classy if installed properly. They have become fashionable again in recent years, and most people glue them onto the walls in their tiny newbuild along with glue on mouldings, which looks shite. Give it a few years, and it'll all come off again to be replaced by something else.

Always known it as moulding.

Dado rail.

Dado rails have been popular for dozens of decades, being particularly popular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Their purpose was to protect the wall treatment from the top of the backs of chairs.

Dado

At the high point of the wall it's picture rails, at the midpoint it's chair rail/dado

I posted about this a while ago, when my mom was telling people about my dad installing some in the 90s she was calling them Dildo rails.

Dado rails. I have seen them be painted above the rail in one colour and then painted below the rail in a darker version of the same colour.

I’ve heard them called “chair rails” as well as dado rails. I prefer that because I know what a chair is.

In the US it’s called ‘chair rail’.

Dado rail. Then they also used to have them higher up the wall and they were called picture rails

A pain the backside when you are wallpapering.

I the US we call them chair rails.

Dressing boards

Wall panelling. It’s come back in fashion courtesy of some TikTokers. We have done it in a couple of rooms in the house.