Panelling system formed from rectangular panels

A panelling system comprising:

• a plurality of panel members for locating on a supporting surface edge to edge in an array to at least partly cover the supporting surface;
• each panel member having a rectangular panel and having a front surface for defining an exposed surface of the panelling system, a rear surface for engaging the supporting surface and four side edges including a first pair of opposed side edges and a second pair of opposed side edges;
• each of the first pair of opposed side edges of the panel having fastened thereto a decorative dividing strip extending along the length of the side edge and having a front surface of the strip lying in a common plane with the upper surface of the panel;
• and each of the second pair of opposed side edges of the panel being exposed for butting directly against a decorative dividing strip of a next adjacent panel member;
• the panel members being arranged, by rotating one panel through 180 degrees relative to the next adjacent panel, such that, when they are assembled into the system edge to edge with the dividing strips carried thereby, a respective one of the decorative dividing strips is located between each edge of a panel and the next adjacent edge of a next adjacent panel so as to form a rectangular area at a junction between corners of four of the panels;
• the dividing strips of each panel being arranged with a portion thereof projecting beyond an end of the respective side edge of the respective panel and cut on each side at and angle to form a pointed portion having an apex at a position mid way through the thickness of the divider strip, such that four dividing strips, when the panels are arranged in the system, meet at the junction between four of the panels with the apexes in contact at a center of the rectangular area at the junction.

A panelling system comprising:

• a plurality of panels for locating on a supporting surface in an array to at least partly cover the supporting surface;
• each panel being rectangular and having a front surface for defining an exposed surface of the panelling system, a rear surface for engaging the supporting surface and four side edges;
• and a plurality of decorative dividing strips;
• each decorative dividing strip being arranged to extend along the length of a respective one of the side edges of a respective one of the panels and to separate the side edge of the respective one of the panels from a side edge of a next adjacent panel;
• each decorative dividing strip having a front surface of the decorative dividing strip arranged to lie substantially in a common plane with the front surface of the adjacent panels;
• the panel members being arranged such that, when they are assembled into the system edge to edge with the dividing strips, a respective one of the decorative dividing strips is located between each edge of a panel and the next adjacent edge of a next adjacent panel;
• such that four dividing strips meeting at a junction between four corners of four of the panels act to define a rectangular area at the junction;
• each of the four dividing strips being arranged with a portion thereof projecting beyond an end of the respective side edge of the respective panel and cut on each side at an angle to form a pointed portion having an apex at a position mid way through the width of the divider strip, such that the four dividing strips meet at the junction between the four of the panels with the apexes in contact at a center of the rectangular area at the junction.