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Flexible BaseboardsAn Introduction to Decorative Molding in Your Home

Decorative molding includes all of the kinds of trim used in a home. It can serve a purely decorative function, or it can also be used to hide any unfinished edges of a wall. Moldings can be made of wood-most usually of pine or oak-or, as is used frequently today, polyurethane. Polyurethane is a lightweight, long-lasting, durable alternative to wood. Molding can also be painted or stained.

This article provides a brief description of the types of decorative trim available as well as information available to guide you in your use of decorative molding in your home.

5 types of molding

There are five types of decorative molding commonly used. These include: baseboard, cornice, crown, wall moldings, and panel moldings. Let’s take a look at each one separately.

Base. Base molding is the trim used to finish the wall along the floor. Also called a mopboard, the baseboard protects the wall. Ideally, your baseboard complements the casings around your doors and windows. A baseboard is commonly found throughout every room in most homes.

Cornice. The cornice is the decorative molding placed along the top of the wall. Cornice can be built up using many pieces of trim. Cornice is a more ornate version of crown molding. Ornamentation includes acanthus leaf, egg and dart, modillions, or dentil among many others.

Crown. Crown molding is also used along the top of the wall. Also called bed moldings, they are installed at an angle to adjunct surfaces. Crown molding is also used to finish cabinets, built-ins, and fireplaces. Cove molding, a rounded piece of trim at the juncture of the wall with the ceiling, provides yet another means of transition from the wall to the ceiling.

Both crown and cornice moldings have been around as long as the use of plastered ceilings has been. Cornice and crown moldings usually reflected the type or intended use of the room. For example, reception rooms were often decorated with more ornate cornice moldings, while plainer crown molding was often installed in the more functional areas of the home, such as the kitchen.

Wall moldings. This group includes the chair rails, and the less common picture rails and friezes. Chair rails are popular features and so can be found throughout many homes. It is the molding that sits approximately 30″-36″ above the floor, right at about the height of a chairback. If you choose to panel the wall below, this trim is known as a dado cap.

Picture rails and friezes are often confused, while in actuality they are two separate entities, although the difference is slight. A picture rail has a rounded top edge protruding out from the wall, where hooks are often placed. Its main purpose is for hanging pictures. A frieze, on the other hand, is a flat molding, frequently decorated with relief carving or classical profile.

The picture rail or frieze and the chair rail form what is known in the Victorian architectural style as a tripartite. The wall is effectively broken up into three separate areas. This type of wall treatment extends your options for decorating considerably.

Panel molding. Panel molding is used to break large surfaces up into panels. Panel molding is normally found on doors, but can also be used to decorate walls and ceilings. Fairly easy to install for the average do-it-yourself homeowner, panel molding can be used to create a custom look. Panels can be used in creative ways utilizing such features as size, curves, and decorative corners. Little details may be slipped inside to create an even more elegant look.

Tips to Guide the Use of Decorative Moldings

Your use may be determined by a number of factors including the architectural style of your home, as well as your personal taste in design styles. Be sure that the size and scale of the trim is appropriate for the room to which you will be adding this type of ornamentation. If you choose to paint your moldings, keep in mind that contrasting colors can add a more “dynamic” element to your room. You may consider coordinating moldings with each other as well as with other design elements present in the room.

Synthetic polymer, or polyurethane, is a natural choice for molding today. As it is lightweight, it is easy to cut and install. Polymer is a more economically feasible choice if you opt for more elaborate decorative moldings. Moldings are also flexible, allowing the homeowner to trim curves and rounded areas of the home. When utilizing cornice and crown moldings, you can combine various types to create a more personal statement. However, this can be more challenging to install for the individual. Corner blocks are available as well in polymer. These can be useful in eliminating difficult corner cuts.

Now you are aware of many further options. Don’t be intimidated. Installation instructions and informative articles like this one abound on the internet. Do your homework and investigate all of your available options. This is something that you will have to live with, so it should reflect your tastes. They will certainly set the decorative tone of any home. Good luck to you as you begin to use decorative moldings to create your wonderful space.

Flexible Baseboards

Flexible BaseboardsThe different types of decorative frames

A decorative molding can be defined as any continuous projection to improve the appearance of a wall. In ancient Greece, for the first time used to extract water from the wall. The contours, sizes and projections vary widely moldings.

Frieze
A type of molding – the frieze (or frieze board) – was the first time in the Parthenon on the Acropolis. The frieze is considered part of the Church greek-style architecture.

The Parthenon was built for the goddessAthena. The frieze moldings used were intended to tell the story of her victory over Poseidon to be the patron of the ancient city is located in Athens.

Frieze panels designed a series of gables are filled with images of the birth of Athena and the birth. Today, the frieze is a flat plate just below a cornice or crown molding. Often, the relief applies to panels for decoration added.

Today, the frieze moldings are the most common, as part ofa decorative molding that follows the neo-classical furniture.

You need a roof high enough (at least 9 meters), and is a good idea to paint or stain the frieze and cornice of the same color. The frieze is a good way to visually lower the ceiling and the room feel more comfortable.

Crown molding
Crown molding is the most famous of cornice moldings. Crown molding is usually a single piece of decorative molding, installed on top of athe wall in a corner of the roof next door. However, I have been riding cutting 5 or more rooms in more elaborate structures.

Crown molding is often a profile that is projected from the ceiling and the wall, adding a rich look of a room. Often used in high cabinets or fixtures.

The introduction of this type of decorative molding a relatively simple piece, offers a historical figure that the room would not have been otherwise. Crown molding is alsoused in combination with other finishes to add details to fireplace mantels and shelves. (For what it's worth, this is probably my favorite feature of the architecture).

Crown molding is a molding of the Corniche. The term "projection" describes molding installed on top of a wall or window. When this treatment is a multi-part molding, which is called "build-ledge." The other way to Cove cornice molding molding.

Cove molding

Cove Moldingvery similar to the frames with the same application and function. The difference between the two is in the profile. Cove molding has a concave profile (which bends inward), and has a convex molding (out) profile.

While the crown is more comfortable in a traditional, Cove moldings are just as good in the country, or even the current configuration. What is not normal, multi-room meetings Cove moldings. Sometimes you can see "pearls" at the top and bottom for a while 'accent.

Tickets, boardrooms, formal dining rooms and bedrooms are usually decorated with moldings or traditional.

Kitchens and other areas of the home could be more functional one in which the simpler design of the molding bay. Over the years, the caves and the crowns have become much smaller, but most are still forms and styles of the original creators of Greece and Rome.

Chair Rail Moulding

A guide chair is a decorative moldingdividing the wall horizontally, usually about 32 "to 36" above the ground. To protect the walls in areas where damage can happen to people on a chair.

For this reason, traditional picture rails have a nose in the middle, curved and beveled at an angle against the wall above and below the nose.

At present, the leadership chair is a common detail in traditional interiors. They serve the decorative effect of unifying the various architecturaldetails of a room, such as windows, doors and moldings and fireplace surrounds.

Chair rail can also be used as a limit for wood panels or other. This decorative molding adds a sense of detail and charm, while achieving the continuity of a room by unifying the various decorative elements.

Panel molding
Molding of the panel, commonly known as a molding frame, frame looks like a great void, and is often part of the drawings on the walls of the ancient and colonial Georgia and principleshomes. The molding should be positioned above the chair rail height and 10 to 12 cm from the ceiling.

The size of this type of crown molding, 1 "to 3" wide, should be proportional to the height of the ceiling of the room. Like other fungi, panel molding adds a sense of charm and delicate details of a room.

The framework for the wall is Georgia of American architecture, when the cast began to replace the panels on the walls. PanelThe casting is also a good way to partition large drives in the beauty, the same cost of solid wall panels.

Another application of this versatile molding to cut the openings made by the boards wider than has been collected, such as rails and styles. Often, the centers of these plots are left open. Applying the trim panel around the perimeter of the opening, you must create the appearance of an image.

When the decorative molding is painted the same colorboundary walls, to get a sculptural quality of a wall, add textures and shadows. If the moldings are painted in contrasting colors, which can create a striking three-dimensional effect, giving depth and dimension. This treatment is very popular for stairways and entrances.

The base plate and base molding

The baseboard molding protects the base of the wall of ceramic and tears, hiding the holes and irregularities in the wall with the floor. Base molding to the wordLine a higher profile, and can be simple or elaborate as you want.

While it is relatively easy to install chair rail on one level, taken (like the crown) can be complicated if the floor (or ceiling) are not the same level. For this reason, I suggest you get a professional carpenter to install these profiles.

As a remedy for uneven floors, install a "shoe molding" along the bottom edge of the motherboard before giving a more finished look. Another thing you can do withsockets (as well as the base of your kitchen cabinets) is the addition of accent lighting.

He does not agree with the traditionalists pure, but it is nice to have the accent lighting around the perimeter of a room. You could not do it until you have created small lights led rope today.

Rope lights come in different sizes and colors and can be easily installed behind the skirting board. Only makes an incision in the back of the socket at the top and backRope lights in the slot.

This is the most widely used in commercial spaces, but has been added to entrances and corridors – especially in contemporary homes.

Flexible temples
If you have a curve or arc on the wall, you can probably have a good craftsman to create a curve to cut about 3 times the cost of a molding line. Or you can buy a flexible cast of about the same price as straight.

They allow you to install molding on curved surfaces or edges, nothe delay and expense of having made of wood. Profiles of action (hundreds) are identical to the versions they are compatible and rigid in terms of painting.

Flexible Baseboards

Flexible BaseboardsThe different types of decorative frames

A decorative molding can be defined as any continuous projection to improve the appearance of a wall. In ancient Greece, for the first time used to extract water from the wall. The contours, sizes and projections vary widely moldings.

Frieze
A type of molding – the frieze (or frieze board) – was the first time in the Parthenon on the Acropolis. The frieze is considered part of the Church greek-style architecture.

The Parthenon was built for the goddessAthena. The frieze moldings used were intended to tell the story of her victory over Poseidon to be the patron of the ancient city is located in Athens.

Frieze panels designed a series of gables are filled with images of the birth of Athena and the birth. Today, the frieze is a flat plate just below a cornice or crown molding. Often, the relief applies to panels for decoration added.

Today, the frieze moldings are the most common, as part ofa decorative molding that follows the neo-classical furniture.

You need a roof high enough (at least 9 meters), and is a good idea to paint or stain the frieze and cornice of the same color. The frieze is a good way to visually lower the ceiling and the room feel more comfortable.

Crown molding
Crown molding is the most famous of cornice moldings. Crown molding is usually a single piece of decorative molding, installed on top of athe wall in a corner of the roof next door. However, I have been riding cutting 5 or more rooms in more elaborate structures.

Crown molding is often a profile that is projected from the ceiling and the wall, adding a rich look of a room. Often used on top of cabinets or fixtures.

The introduction of this type of decorative molding a relatively simple piece, offers a historical figure that the room would not have been otherwise. Crown molding is alsoused in combination with other finishes to add details to fireplace mantels and shelves. (For what it's worth, this is probably my favorite feature of the architecture).

Crown molding is a molding of the Corniche. The term "projection" describes molding installed on top of a wall or window. When this treatment is a multi-part molding, which is called "build-ledge." The other way to Cove cornice molding molding.

Cove molding

Cove Moldingvery similar to the frames with the same application and function. The difference between the two is in the profile. Cove molding has a concave profile (which bends inward), and has a convex molding (out) profile.

While the crown is more comfortable in a traditional, Cove moldings are just as good in the country, or even the current configuration. What is not normal, multi-room meetings Cove moldings. Sometimes you can see "pearls" at the top and bottom for a while 'accent.

Tickets, boardrooms, formal dining rooms and bedrooms are usually decorated with moldings or traditional.

Kitchens and other areas of the home could be more functional one in which the simpler design of the molding bay. Over the years, the caves and the crowns have become much smaller, but most are still forms and styles of the original creators of Greece and Rome.

Chair Rail Moulding

A guide chair is a decorative moldingdividing the wall horizontally, usually about 32 "to 36" above the ground. To protect the walls in areas where damage can happen to people on a chair.

For this reason, traditional picture rails have a nose in the middle, curved and beveled at an angle against the wall above and below the nose.

At present, the leadership chair is a common detail in traditional interiors. They serve the decorative effect of unifying the various architecturaldetails of a room, such as windows, doors and moldings and fireplace surrounds.

Chair rail can also be used as a limit for wood panels or other. This decorative molding adds a sense of detail and charm, while achieving the continuity of a room by unifying the various decorative elements.

Panel molding
Molding of the panel, commonly known as a molding frame, frame looks like a great void, and is often part of the drawings on the walls of the ancient and colonial Georgia and principleshomes. The molding should be positioned above the chair rail height and 10 to 12 cm from the ceiling.

The size of this type of crown molding, 1 "to 3" wide, should be proportional to the height of the ceiling of the room. Like other fungi, panel molding adds a sense of charm and delicate details of a room.

The framework for the wall is Georgia of American architecture, when the cast began to replace the panels on the walls. PanelThe casting is also a good way to partition large drives in the beauty, the same cost of solid wall panels.

Another application of this versatile molding to cut the openings made by the boards wider than has been collected, such as rails and styles. Often, the centers of these plots are left open. Applying the trim panel around the perimeter of the opening, you must create the appearance of an image.

When the decorative molding is painted the same colorboundary walls, to get a sculptural quality of a wall, add textures and shadows. If the moldings are painted in contrasting colors, which can create a striking three-dimensional effect, giving depth and dimension. This treatment is very popular for stairways and entrances.

The base plate and base molding

The baseboard molding protects the base of the wall of ceramic and tears, hiding the holes and irregularities in the wall with the floor. Base molding to the wordLine a higher profile, and can be simple or elaborate as you want.

While it is relatively easy to install chair rail on one level, taken (like the crown) can be complicated if the floor (or ceiling) are not the same level. For this reason, I suggest you get a professional carpenter to install these profiles.

As a remedy for uneven floors, install a "shoe molding" along the bottom edge of the motherboard before giving a more finished look. Another thing you can do withsockets (as well as the base of your kitchen cabinets) is the addition of accent lighting.

He does not agree with the traditionalists pure, but it is nice to have the accent lighting around the perimeter of a room. You could not do it until you have created small lights led rope today.

Rope lights come in different sizes and colors and can be easily installed behind the skirting board. Only makes an incision in the back of the socket at the top and backRope lights in the slot.

This is the most widely used in commercial spaces, but has been added to entrances and corridors – especially in contemporary homes.

Flexible temples
If you have a curve or arc on the wall, you can probably have a good craftsman to create a curve to cut about 3 times the cost of a molding line. Or you can buy a flexible cast of about the same price as straight.

They allow you to install molding on curved surfaces or edges, nothe delay and expense of having made of wood. Profiles of action (hundreds) are identical to the versions they are compatible and rigid in terms of painting.

Flexible Baseboards

Flexible BaseboardsAn introduction to the decorative trim in your home

decorative moldings includes all types of seats used in a home. It can serve a purely decorative or can also be used to hide the rough edges of a wall. wood moldings can be more frequent in pine or oak polyurethane, or as commonly used today. Polyurethane is a lightweight, durable and sustainable wood. Molding can be painted or stained.

This article gives a brief description of the types of decorative elements availableand information available to guide you through the use of decorative frames in your home.

5 types of molding

There are five common types of decorative moldings. These include: baseboards, picture frames, moldings, walls and panels. Check out each one separately.

Bases. base molding is used to terminate the well wall on the floor. Mopboard also known, protects the base plate to the wall. Ideally, the base plate around its fulldoors and windows. A motherboard is widespread in all parts of most houses.

Ledge. The frame is the decorative molding on the top of the wall. Frame can be constructed using many suitable pieces. Frame is a more ornate moldings. The ornamentation includes acanthus leaves, egg and dart, brackets, dentil and many others.

Corona. projection is also used at the top of the wall. also called bed molding, which are installed in a cornerTo have more space. projection is also used for finishing furniture, cabinets, and fireplaces. Cove molding, a curved piece of the slab at the junction of the wall to the ceiling, offers another way to transition between the wall and ceiling.

Both moldings and cornices have been up to when the use of ceiling plaster was. crown molding and generally reflects the type or intended use of the room. For example, reception halls are often decoratedmore ornate cornices, cornice, while simple is often installed in functional areas such as home cooking.

wall molding. This group includes the walls, the walls and less frequent and friezes. frames are popular and can be found in many homes. The frame is about 30 "-36" above the ground, at the height of a chair back. If you click below the wall panel, this dish is known asslot cover.

chair rails and strips are often confused when in fact they are two separate entities, although the difference is small. A chair rail has a rounded top edge protruding from the wall, where the hooks are often located. Its main objective is to hang pictures. A frieze on the other hand, is a low profile, often decorated with engravings and a classic profile.

The frieze or chair rail and picture rail form what is known in Victoriaand tripartite architecture. The wall is divided into three zones. This type of wall treatment is significantly extends their decorating options.

Casting Group. panel molding is used to divide large areas of the panels. doors are usually printed, but can also be used to decorate the walls and ceilings. Fairly easy to install for the home DIY media, panel molding can be used to create a custom design. The panels can be used inusing creative ways to characteristics such as size, decorative curves and angles. Small details slips inside to create a more elegant.

Tips to guide the use of decorative frames

Their use can be determined by a number of factors, including the architectural style of your home and personal tastes in design styles. Make sure the size and scale of the bases is appropriate for the Council, to which you add this type of ornament. Ifchoose to paint the trim, please note that in contrast colors can add a more "dynamic" elements in your room. You may want to consider the coordination between their moldings and other design elements in the room.

synthetic polymers or polyurethane, is a natural choice for the molding of today. How is light, easy to cut and install. Polymer is a more workable solution if you opt for more elaborate decorative moldings. Mouldings are also flexible,enabling the owner to cut the curves and rounded surfaces of the house. Using frames and the crown, you can combine different types to create a more personal motivation. However, this can be more difficult to install for the individual. corner blocks are also available in the polymer. These can be useful for eliminating the difficult angle cuts.

Now I realize many other options. Do not be intimidated. Installation instructions and informative articles like thisabound on the Internet. Do your homework and explore all available options. It is a living being, so it should reflect your taste. Definitely will give your house all decorated. Good luck to you as you start to use decorative moldings to create your wonderful space.

Flexible Baseboards