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Located in Florida, Good Millwork has been manufacturing architectural moldings and wood trim for over 20 years. We have over 10,000 molding profiles, including crown, baseboard, casing, chair rail and many other wood profiles.
The Molding Search Widget was cobbled together (remember we’re wood guys, not programmers…be easy) to assist our customers, architects, designers and specifiers [...]
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Notice the Door & Window Moldings, Crown Molding & Chair Rail?
What is it about rooms in historical buildings and home that make them beautiful? Have you ever noticed how plain newer homes and buildings are in comparison? Look around the next room that you find really attractive and you are almost certain to see [...]
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Lapham Patterson House – Photo Credit Thomasville Georgia Real Estate
Exterior moldings and decorative trim are what make historical homes so interesting compared to newer construction. While you may not be interested in anything as elaborate as often seen on Victorian era homes such as the 1884-5 Lapham-Patterson House shown in the photo, any home could [...]
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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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Baseboard, which might be called skirting or just base, provides visual weight to walls but is much more than decoration. It hides the gap between the wall and the floor and covers the gap left around wood floors that allows the boards to expand and contract.
Typical baseboard, installed by builders in most homes today is [...]
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We’re proud to announce the BETA release of our new Molding Search Widget. In the spirit of collaborative development we’re looking for your feedback as we continue to tweak, adjust and further tune-up this application for our customers, architects, designers and specifiers.
The Molding Search Widget was cobbled together (remember we’re wood guys, not programmers…be easy) [...]
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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 to [...]
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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 the type [...]
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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 to [...]
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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 scaled, [...]
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