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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…
[This is part of my WINDOW TRIM-102 series.] Costs About $183.18 to Make With the exception of the resin corbels, you can buy all the moldings and mdf board to make a window surround like this at your local lumber…
Traditional Style Resin corbels like these are an excellent addition to the architectural details you design and install in your home. The detail resolution on this one in quite nice, even rivaling some plaster corbels. Just look at how nice…
Traditional Style The moment I laid my eyes on these tall windows, I knew exactly what kind of surround I wanted to build around them. And this corbeled entablature is the result. The design might look familiar to you if…
