Any thoughts for covering internal bricks walls?

[jak]

Hi all,

Any thoughts or suggestions for the following.

My house is a traditional 1940's 3 bed-semi, with a "lean-to/utility" on the side.

Want to decorate this "lean-to" and change it from being just a brick outhouse to a nice utility room. I've already made a false floor to raise it level with the kitchen / front & back doors, now I looking to cover the brick walls.

The "lean-to/utility" side is about 17ft by 5ft.

I thought of plasterboarding the whole utility room but I think it will cost alot to have the whole room skimmed by a plasterer.

I had thought of painting straight onto plasterboard or even wallpapering (but worried it maybe too damp/or not suitable for wallpaper).

Any other thoughts for cover the walls?

Thanks In advance

JAK

[BillR]

Textured paint? Thats what I used on what was an outside wall and is now one wall of my utility room. The other walls, in what is now a study, I battened and covered with plasterboard.

[Reader]

I would still go for the plasterboard. If you don't want to pay for it to be skimmed (and you don't want to do it yourself? ) then just tape and fill the joints and cover with lining paper and then paint - et voila!

You could also just lime wash the walls. This may make the room feel a bit cold.

[N. Thornton]

You dont have to, you can just use jointing plaster to fill the joints, do it yourself.

Regards, NT

[BigWallop]

And make sure the plasterboard doesn't have the tapered edges.

[Toby]

Doesn't? Surely to avoid skimming you would use tapered edge boards then tape and fill the joints ready for basecoat. (Said with a hallway full of t/e boards)

[BigWallop]

If you're going to tape and fill joints, then you're half way to skimming the whole lot. With straight edge boards, all you need is a squirt of decorators caulk down the seams to finish them off.

[Niel A. Farrow]

I'm just about to cover the inside brick walls of my outhouse with polystyrene backed insulation board. Comes in a variety of thicknesses. I'm using 8' x 4' sheets of 22 mm thick (£9.85 incl. vat) and 40 mm (£15.82 incl vat) from a local BM. Phone around for best prices. Use plasterboard adhesive to stick it to the walls. Neil