2 Metaphors for panellings

Everything is Louis XV. and Louis XVI., but it doesn't go so well in the saloon as it might, because the panelling is old oak, with the Foljambe coats of arms still all round the frieze, and over the mantelpiece, which is Elizabethan.

The old panelling and moulded ceilings of this mansion are very fine specimens of seventeenth-century workmanship.

2 Metaphors for  panellings