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A cost effective way to make a room go from blah to WOW! is to install chair rail molding. Chair rail moldings are typically installed in kitchens, dining rooms, and hallways but are also used in family rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms. Because they add a linear break to the wall, color, material, texture, etc. below [...]
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One of the most popular home improvement projects is to add crown moldings. Working with crown moulding is not one of the easiest projects but a little knowledge of the task at hand will help. Hopefully, you’ll find some good stuff about crown moulding here that will help you better grasp some of the terms [...]
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One of the most popular home improvement projects is to add crown moulding. Working with crown moulding is not one of the easiest projects but a little knowledge of the task at hand will help. Hopefully, you’ll find some good stuff about crown moulding here that will help you better grasp some of the terms [...]
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Good Millwork: Crown Molding Collection, originally uploaded by Good Millwork. Crown molding encapsulates a large family of moldings which are designed to gracefully flare out to a finished top edge; generally used for capping walls, pilasters, cabinets; used extensively in the creation of interior and exterior cornice assemblies and door and window hoods. In recent [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Moldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork. LIGHT & SHADE: Moldings on the outside of a building are almost always illuminated by direct sunlight. Interior moldings, on the other hand, are usually illuminated by indirect reflected light or electric lighting. To compensate for the general weakness of interior light, you might want [...]
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Looking for Architectural Moldings? There are 10,000+ architectural molding profiles in our free searchable database. Moldings not found in our database can be matched in 24 hours. Download the 3D CAD profiles for free. How to Use Our Molding Search Tool To begin a molding search, use the drop down menu (currently “Crown”) to select [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Molding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork. REDUCTION/AMPLIFICATION: While it’s illogical to have two disparate scales present within a particular molding sequence, it’s not unusual to have varying scales in moldings belonging to different features of the same building or space. In fact, in structures of any complexity, one is often compelled [...]
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Good Millwork: Baseboard Molding Collection, originally uploaded by Good Millwork. In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, mopboard, floor molding, as well as base molding) is a (generally wooden) board, covering the lowest part of an interior wall. Its purpose is to cover the joint between the wall surface (usually plaster or drywall) [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Moulding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork. PROPORTION & SCALE: Both of these issues must be satisfied in molding design to achieve a harmonious whole, both in the relation of the profiles to their context, and to each other. The profiles on the left of fig. 9 are proportionate and internally well [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architecture Molding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork. FACIAL ANGLE: Another important alignment is the FACIAL ANGLE — the incline off the vertical at which both individual moldings and molding groups will be pitched. It's important to maintain a consistent facial angle throughout a molding sequence; otherwise the parts will appear disconnected because [...]
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