This post was written by a pair of my ultra-motivated readers! Well, it finally happened… After three years of having to slam the front door to get it to close in the summer (swelling), and having drafts in the winter…
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Casing Molding This versatile molding profile I’ve used for chair rail buildups, entablatures, crown molding cornices and of course, baseboards. But it wasn’t until this week that I saw this same profile in an historic home, and so establishing its…
I don’t usually publish anything on Fridays because this is the only full day off I have from my day job . But today I finally had a chance to tour the historic home I wrote about back in early…
How to Install CROWN MOLDING-104 for c. $5.17/lf
December 31, 2013
Victorian Style Finish Carpenter Price c. $18.00/lf + $20.00/Corner or Return You or your finish carpenter can make this crown molding by stacking four separate molding profiles together. The design is a hybrid of sorts from several crowns I’ve seen…
Greek Revival/Traditional, 1848 On Jefferson Avenue, a stone’s throw from downtown Detroit and just across the street from Albert Kahn’s famous, The Palms, historic apartments, sits the prettiest little example of Greek Revival architecture you could ever hope to see.
Over the next week I have to turn my attention to the regrettable task of changing The Joy of Moldings WordPress theme from Standard, which is no longer supported, to Canvas, a theme that is supported. The site might look…
Georgian/American Colonial Style, 1753 Photos courtesy of Greg Roth. Rather than me blathering on about the beautiful wall panels, pilasters with ionic capitals, pediments over the doors and Windsor chairs (I really love Windsor chairs!) in the Assembly Room, I thought…
Traditional Style, 1754 Can you see it? Can you see the capital of a very small pilaster behind the coffee pot and supporting the figurehead? I didn’t even notice it until after I got home and was sorting through the…
Traditional Style After looking at many corbels used during the American Colonial and Federal architectural periods, I finally settled on this resin corbel for Greg’s fireplace mantel. It’s made by a company called Outwater Plastics, makers of all kinds of…
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