Moldings with Meaning -- we'll show you how to install them yourself!
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Sue
I have been lusting after the interior door trim at the Hughes Credit Union at Speedway and Country Club (Tucson) since I was a child. Any chance of some tutorials? Thanks to your explanations about choosing door trim to mark the importance of the doorway, I now understand why the door with the pointed top used to lead to the managers office, while the plainer flat topped door trim leads to the bathroom. Keep up the good work.
Ken
Hi Sue,
I’m well aware of the door trim and crown molding in the Hughes Credit Union too! It is striking is it not? Each of the designs are pretty well excecuted, though the overall design could have been greatly improved with a little attention to architectural subordination.
It looks like the designer was trying to replicate some of the door surrounds common in Tucson’s earliest Victorian styles, like the kind you find on the outside of the Verdugo House.
As to tutorials, I actually have installed window and door trim similar to that, though simpler and more historicaly accurate. My pictures of that project, however, are actual snapshots (remeber those?), and so I’d have to scan them. But I have an HP printer/scanner. And like most HP scanners, though less than a year old, it can not be made to work.
I’d rather just make a whole new set of tutorials than try to make that thing work.
Sue, are you in the middle of a molding project or in the planning stages? Let us know, we’ll try to help.
cheers, Ken & Jennifer
Chris C
Hi –
This is a great website. I just bought a new home with almost no crown molding. The dining room has the standard builder crown molding in there and that is all. The room has 12 foot ceilings so it needs to be beefed up a bit. Since the molding is already up do you have any tips on how I can enhance it with other moldings to build it up a bit? I really do not want to rip it down. Thanks!
Got ’em, Chris. You’ve got some nice geometry there. In particular those tall windows. Oooh, the things I could do to them!
I’ll write a quick post in the next day or so answering your specific questions because several of our readers I’m working with right now have similar situations.
And today I’ll be making a mockup of the solutions — a finial return for terminating a crown molding.
Chris C
any ideas you have will be appreciated !
chris C
Hi Ken –
Any ideas on how to improve on those moldings I sent you pictures of?
I have been lusting after the interior door trim at the Hughes Credit Union at Speedway and Country Club (Tucson) since I was a child. Any chance of some tutorials? Thanks to your explanations about choosing door trim to mark the importance of the doorway, I now understand why the door with the pointed top used to lead to the managers office, while the plainer flat topped door trim leads to the bathroom. Keep up the good work.
Hi Sue,
I’m well aware of the door trim and crown molding in the Hughes Credit Union too! It is striking is it not? Each of the designs are pretty well excecuted, though the overall design could have been greatly improved with a little attention to architectural subordination.
It looks like the designer was trying to replicate some of the door surrounds common in Tucson’s earliest Victorian styles, like the kind you find on the outside of the Verdugo House.
As to tutorials, I actually have installed window and door trim similar to that, though simpler and more historicaly accurate. My pictures of that project, however, are actual snapshots (remeber those?), and so I’d have to scan them. But I have an HP printer/scanner. And like most HP scanners, though less than a year old, it can not be made to work.
I’d rather just make a whole new set of tutorials than try to make that thing work.
Sue, are you in the middle of a molding project or in the planning stages? Let us know, we’ll try to help.
cheers, Ken & Jennifer
Hi –
This is a great website. I just bought a new home with almost no crown molding. The dining room has the standard builder crown molding in there and that is all. The room has 12 foot ceilings so it needs to be beefed up a bit. Since the molding is already up do you have any tips on how I can enhance it with other moldings to build it up a bit? I really do not want to rip it down. Thanks!
Hi Chris,
Yep, I’ve got some ideas. Email me some pictures showing the room and maybe we can come up with something that will add to your current crown.
Hi Ken –
I sent you a couple of pictures via email. Let me know what you think!
CC
I didn’t get an email from you yet Chris. Try sending them again to thejoyofmoldings@gmail.com.
Looking forward to seeing your work!
OK – I resent the pictures. Hopefully they made it this time.
Got ’em, Chris. You’ve got some nice geometry there. In particular those tall windows. Oooh, the things I could do to them!
I’ll write a quick post in the next day or so answering your specific questions because several of our readers I’m working with right now have similar situations.
And today I’ll be making a mockup of the solutions — a finial return for terminating a crown molding.
any ideas you have will be appreciated !
Hi Ken –
Any ideas on how to improve on those moldings I sent you pictures of?
Hi Chris,
Responding to your pictures is next on my to-do list. Hang in there!