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Panelling, drawn to your room.

Coreside designs and supplies architectural wall panelling for interior designers, architects and the trade in Ireland. You send us the room. We send back the drawing, the specification and the material.

Most wall panelling is sold by the metre. You choose a moulding from a catalogue, someone estimates a quantity, and the proportions get worked out on site by a carpenter with a tape measure and an opinion.

We work the other way round. Send us a floor plan, a set of elevations, or just the dimensions and a photograph of the room. We'll draw the panelling to that specific wall — heights, panel widths, margins, how it meets the skirting, what happens at the door — and supply exactly the profiles and sheet material needed to build it.

Everything is drawn before anything is cut. Your carpenter works from an elevation instead of a guess, and the room looks the way you specified it.

Why specify Coreside

The cheapest change you can make to a room.

€500

Materials for a typical 4m × 4m room start at around five hundred euro. Less than a light fitting. Less than a rug. And unlike either, it changes the architecture of the room.

Drawn to the room, not sold by the metre

Panelling either looks designed or it looks stuck on, and the difference is almost never the moulding. It's the proportions. We set out every wall before anything is ordered, so panel widths, dado height and margins are resolved on paper while they're still free to change.

One specification, one delivery, one contact

Profiles, sheet material, skirting and rails arrive together, on a date, offloaded by us. No merchant runs, no three suppliers, no half a job waiting on a back-order.

Your carpenter gets an elevation

A dimensioned drawing per wall, with a component schedule and quantities. Nothing to interpret, nothing to decide on site. Fewer questions to you, and fewer of the small errors that only become visible after painting.

Consistency across a whole house

The same system runs from hall to landing to reception room, with the proportions adjusted for each ceiling height. Rooms relate to each other instead of each being solved separately.

What we don't do: we don't fit and we don't paint. Panelling is supplied primed, ready for a decorator. We're happy to recommend people for both.

How it works

From a floor plan to a delivery in about a week.

1

Send us the room.

Floor plan and elevations if you have them. If not: wall dimensions, ceiling height, and a photograph. Note anything on the wall — sockets, radiators, a chimney breast, a stair string.

2

We draw the scheme.

A dimensioned elevation for each wall, with the collection and profiles you've chosen. Usually back with you in two to three working days.

3

You mark it up.

Change heights, panel divisions, which walls are treated. We redraw. This is the point where changes cost nothing.

4

Specification and quotation.

Final drawings, component schedule, quantities and price.

5

Delivered to site.

Five to seven working days from order. Delivered on our own van and offloaded by us.

Design and drawings are provided free of charge on supply projects.

The collections

Six systems, not a catalogue of mouldings.

Each collection is a set of profiles proportioned to work together — panel mould, dado rail and skirting, plus the setting-out rules that make them sit correctly on a wall. Choose the character; the details are already resolved.

Historic

Historic

Collection

Deep, oversized profiles for period houses and rooms with height to spare.

Dado rail 80mm
Panel mould 80mm
Box detail 60mm
Carlton

Carlton

Collection

Traditional proportions for classic interiors. The default for most Irish period homes.

Dado rail 70mm
Panel mould 70mm
Box detail 50mm
Newbury

Newbury

Collection

Lighter, reeded detailing with a relaxed coastal character.

Dado rail 60mm
Panel mould 60mm
Box detail 45mm
Foxford

Foxford

Collection

The versatile one. Reads traditional or contemporary depending on how it's set out.

Dado rail 57mm
Panel mould 36mm
Skirting 150mm
Cove

Cove

Collection

Groove board for walls and ceilings. V, square or M groove, vertical or horizontal.

Board 12mm
Groove width 120mm
Groove depth 12mm
Studio

Studio

Collection

Clean, minimal profiles for contemporary rooms and low ceilings.

Dado rail 60mm
Panel mould 35mm
Skirting 150mm
Proportion guide

Getting the proportions right.

Panelling fails on setting-out far more often than on product. These are the rules we work to.

950mm top of dado rail above finished floor 150mm 100mm 100mm 100mm 100mm equal panel equal panel equal panel
Dado height
Top of rail at 950mm above finished floor. Not one third of the wall — a fixed height reads better across rooms of different heights and lines through into halls and returns.
Margins
100mm from each side wall, above the skirting, above and below the dado rail, and below the ceiling on full-height schemes.
Panel widths
Equal panels across the wall. Taller than wide above the rail, close to square below it. Never leave a narrow orphan panel at one end.
Ceiling height
At 2.4m use a lighter profile and dado height only. At 2.7m and above, full height with a rail holds its proportion. Above 3m a deeper profile is warranted.
Skirting
150mm as standard, 170mm and up in period rooms. Panelling should never look lighter than the skirting beneath it.
Where to stop
Panelling that dies into a corner without a return looks unfinished. Plan the return, or stop at the architrave.
Details and junctions

The bits that go wrong.

Anyone can panel a flat wall. Every scheme we draw resolves the junctions before the carpenter reaches them.

Site photo
Internal corner, mould returned
Site photo
External corner and return
Site photo
Run into a window reveal
Site photo
Socket and switch cut-outs
Site photo
Radiator brackets and pipework
Site photo
Stair string and raking panels
Site photo
Junction with door architrave
Site photo
Head of panelling at cornice
What you receive

What lands in your inbox.

Dimensioned wall elevation

One per wall. Panel divisions, heights, margins and profile references, drawn to the room as built rather than as designed. Issued as PDF; CAD files on request.

Elevation drawing

Component schedule

Every profile and sheet, with codes, section sizes, lengths and quantities. The page your carpenter orders from and your quantity surveyor prices from.

Schedule

Quotation

Priced line by line against the schedule, so it can be checked, cut back or extended without a phone call.

Quotation

Revisions are free until you're happy with the scheme.

Materials and specification

Specification.

Profiles
Primed MDF, factory finished ready for decoration. Standard length 4.4m. Moisture-resistant grade available for bathrooms, utilities and boot rooms.
Sheet material
Raw MDF, 2440 × 1220mm, in 12 and 18mm. Cut from full sheets on site.
Groove board
12mm MDF. V, square or M groove. Vertical or horizontal, spacing set to the specification.
Fixing
Adhesive and pin fixing to plastered walls. Panelling should be installed onto fully dry, finished plaster.
Site storage
Store flat, indoors, in a dry heated space, and allow 48 hours to acclimatise before fixing. MDF is stable, but it is not immune to a wet house.
Decoration
Supplied primed, not finished. Caulk all internal junctions, fill and sand pin holes, and apply a minimum of two finish coats. The quality of the paintwork determines the quality of the result more than any other single factor.
Lead time
Five to seven working days from order confirmation.
Delivery
Our own vehicle, offloaded by us. Dublin and surrounding counties as standard.
CodeDescriptionSizeLengthFinish
FOX-DR57Dado rail57 × 20mm4.4mPrimed MDF
FOX-PM36Panel mould36 × 12mm4.4mPrimed MDF
FOX-SK150Skirting150 × 18mm4.4mPrimed MDF
CS-MDF18MDF sheet, backing2440 × 1220 × 18mmSheetRaw
CS-MDF18MRMDF sheet, moisture resistant2440 × 1220 × 18mmSheetRaw
Projects

Rooms we've drawn.

Hall and return
Victorian hall and return, Rathmines
Foxford Grand, dado at 950mm carried through from hall to landing.
Photography: [Designer name]
Reception room
Reception room, Malahide
Carlton Classic below a 2.7m ceiling, single panel run to the chimney breast.
Photography: [Designer name]
Bedroom
Principal bedroom, Clontarf
Studio Grand, full height behind the bed, stopped at the architrave.
Photography: [Designer name]
Bathroom
Family bathroom, Howth
Cove, vertical, 100mm centres, moisture-resistant board throughout.
Photography: [Designer name]
Working with us

Send us a room.

The easiest way to see how this works is to give us a live job. Send a floor plan, or a set of dimensions and a photograph, and we'll draw the panelling for one room and price it. No charge, no obligation to order.

Samples

Boxed sets of profile samples by collection, sent out or dropped in, so you can see the section at full size and in the paint.

Showroom

Baldoyle Industrial Estate, Dublin 13. Worth an hour if you want to see the collections at full height rather than as a drawing.

Trade terms

Accounts available for regular specifiers.

Specification wording

Wall panelling: Coreside [Collection] [Grand / Classic], primed MDF, set out to Coreside drawing ref. [    ]. Contact Coreside for a scheme drawing before issue.

Baldoyle Industrial Estate
Dublin 13

 

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