was a quote from Mika Kleinschmidt of HGTV’s 100 day dream home. Brian and Mika stopped to chat at our tambour booth at the Palm Beach Home Show. Anna Logan from Country Living wrote a great article (found here) where she says “Tambour Paneling is going to be the next big thing”.  

Here at Loxaco, we’ve been seeing it coming. We manufacture a line of tambour panels which have primarily been sold to commercial markets such as hotels, corporate offices, and restaurants. However, we’ve been watching tambour trend towards high end homes. We believe that its just a matter of time before it goes mainstream and takes over like shiplap did.  

Loxaco has manufactured over 150,000 square feet of flexible backed tambour panels which were made up of around 3,000,000 lineal feet of wood moldings. We love our flexible backed tambour panels, however, they are labor intensive to make. Each panel consists of multiple individual pieces of molding that are then glued to a flexible backer. It’s absolutely gorgeous, but it’s pricey. Too pricey to go mainstream. We’re changing that.

We came up with a line of rigid tambour paneling that gives the same look as the flexible backed paneling but for a fraction of the cost. Since the look remains the same and with the price being lower, we believe this to be the right product to take the market by storm.

We took our best selling profiles in the flexible backed panels and made up similar profiles for our rigid panels that we call Tambour Trim. In our rigid panels, our best selling profile is the half rounds. All of the profiles are 5 1/4″ wide and the thicknesses vary per profile. The panels are available in most domestic species, however, poplar, white oak, and walnut, in that order, are the top three species. Poplar is primarily used for paint grade and can be available up to 16′ in length. Most other species can be made up to 12′ in length. 

We also manufacture moldings to go along with the panels including thinner (1/4″ x 3″) baseboard, thicker (7/8″ x 3″) baseboard, stop moldings for the end of runs, and cap moldings for the top of a run that doesn’t go all the way to the ceiling. 

As you can imagine, with 5 1/4″ wide rigid panels, they won’t go around curved walls. We solve that problem by offering individual profiles (width depends on the profile, but 3/4″ to 1 1/2″ wide). The narrow width follows the contour of the curve allowing the tambour to continue around a curve and then transition back to the wide panels when the wall flattens out again. 

Then let’s work together! If you think that our tambour is a good fit for you, let us know! Just fill out the simple form below to get the conversation started.  We’d be happy to get some samples and literature sent over