Traditional Style, Doric Order A pilaster is nothing more than a column cut in half and then placed against the wall. It is not a load-bearing element like a column, it is decorative only. However, a pilaster must appear to…
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Ben Asks Hi Ken, I am currently installing in my basement my version of your BASEBOARD-100 (5 inch 3/4 mdf + 1.5 inch 1/2 mdf). I will also do the DOOR TRIM-133 in craftsman style for the doors and windows….
Traditional Style Finish Carpenter Price c. $12.00/lf + $12.00/Corner or Return This example perfectly demonstrates the four powerful effects a simple flying crown molding gives an otherwise undefined and visually bland great room: Provides architectural detail to undefined, blank walls…
Traditional Style Though made around 1820, this pier mirror is designed in the earlier Federal Style. And while I’m not a big fan of the spheres under the cornice, I am a fan of pier mirrors in general, and have…
Hi Ken, I am a newbie DIYer and want to do a board and batten molding project in my dining room. I’ve looked around a lot on the web and seen lots of great projects. I really appreciate your tutorials….
Victorian Style, 1902 This tall, painted wainscoting is located in the foyer of Arizona’s oldest and continuously operated hotel, the Copper Queen in Bisbee. It is about 52″ high and painted this interesting two-tone paint scheme. The moldings inside the…
Excellent Architectural Subordination in Three Parts When readers send us pictures of their work they say we helped inspire, it makes all the time we spend creating content for The Joy of Moldings worthwhile. Dave has been a very earnest…
A Molding Installation Pep-Talk from Ken [This is part of my How to Install Moldings series.] This room started out in life with just twenty-one individual pieces of bland, contractor-grade moldings. Starter-trim. It now has — if I counted correctly —…
Make DOOR TRIM-103.1 for $35.00
November 13, 2012
Eared Architrave for Small Doors This eared architrave (also called a shouldered architrave) is the same as DOOR TRIM-103, but is half the width to fit on smaller doors. I thought it deserved its own pattern number and page, so…
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