BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – UNIQUE HOME DESIGN ARTICLES
INTERIOR DESIGN - FANCY TRIM
By Before The Architect Copyright 2009 Before The Architect
This is testimony to how home design and construction can go wrong: We lived in a brick rambler ... for 6 years, decided to renovate, hired one architect, didn't work out, hired another architect, paid a ton of money, vacated house in anticipation, tore down house because someone said, "it's easier than renovating," have nice plans but not viable Autocad version, the architect and builder are incompatible. Fired architect, one year later fired builder. ... Would need to refinance the whole thing. ... It is no longer going to be our dream house or dream lot. ...so we will be selling the constructed house. ... The plans we have were indeed our unique dream house. DJ, Virginia
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INTRODUCTION
Home interior decor can include decorative trim molding, fancy molding and not-to-fancy molding, and all sorts of trim accessories . . . just let yourself go.
Greek arches, brackets, mullions, and pilasters for fancy moldings, pieced with trim accessories, as you'll see here under subsequently.
Nobody’s expecting a Pantheon of Classical design in a home these days; however, mixing apparent structure and whimsy can work wonders for your home interior designing.
FANCY TRIM EXAMPLES - DECORATIVE TRIM MOLDING
The suggestion of beaming and support are all that’s needed to spark imagination and please the eye in this dining space. Pilasters, or, really, their thinned-down representation are enough to say, ‘respectful distinction abounds hereabouts and that includes you.’
This bracket's one of several trim accessories (and its mate at the other end of a faux, squared arch) that implies more of a Classical impost than a support for shelving – size matters.
These windows could have been trimmed as one, without interim casing legs, and they would have looked cheap and easy. . . this trim treatment of casing legs all around and mullion moulding caps looks neither cheap nor easy (though both materials and labor are only a few bucks more . . . really). The first window pic is closer up to better distinguish the paired joining; the second window pic is offered to clarify that the pairing was continued throughout the walls of this Sunroom.
This pilaster - beefier than the previous depiction - is better proportioned to the bigger apparent beam.
Finally, this over-the-top overdoor feature with its own selection of trim accessories really upgrades the already extensive trim in this dining space.
POSTSCRIPT
No matter the style, the appointments, the whatever, please consider baseboard of not less than x10 linear inches and, usually, with a base cap (of which there are plenty of profiles). The most attractive baseboard we've ever seen were in marble sans cap.
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