Have you ever looked about your home andfelt you needed something special to help coordinate
your new floor, your new d'cor? How aboutpulling it all together with wood trim? Yours can be matching species or onesthat coordinate with your wood floor and furniture. Now, here's an accessorythat maximizes your investment in your home! moldings are asimple way to create a new and very personal look throughout your home withoutthe cost of a complete
make over. One way to achieve that customlook is with custom moldings. Why not be creative and let us show you how touse two or more custom molding pieces to create stylish and unique trimdesigns? In hardwoods alone there are more than 350 standard molding shapes andprofiles to choose from, not to mention countless new species now available. Startwith the baseboards, whose job it is to frame your floor and to create a visualbase on which the wall ?sits.? In older homes, baseboards may be showing theirage. In newer ones, builders often overlook this detail. Sometimes we recommendgetting back to basics by removing the old stained scratched and worn woodbaseboard and using a two piece baseboard with a decorative cap painted whiteto accent the whole room. It can be assimple as putting together two or more pieces of molding, say a rounded, convexpiece at the bottom of the four to- six-inch flat board and a recessed orconcave piece on top.
That's just the beginning of how you candecorate using wood trim. Start thinking door and window casings, chair rails,wainscoting and bookcases. Enhance a focal point fireplace further with insets ofwood medallions, metal, ceramic and stone ?? even the custom family crest! Takethe look all the way to the ceiling and crown moldings. Let us show you how tomake the most of wood trim and molding for your home. For example, if you wishto use a cherry hardwood for the baseboard and door and window casings, tryusing a less expensive wood stained the same color for the crown moldings. Letus also show you how to decorate with wood, everything from traditionalAmerican hardwood to the new exotics like Brazilian Cherry ?? even bamboo!
We can explain a host of decorating ideas suchas selecting molding that matches your wood floor and furnishings orcoordinates with them!
