Creating a Stylish Home With Millwork

Once your home accurately reflects your personal style, it’s time to focus on the details. Finishing touches to your interior make the home feel cohesive and well-crafted.. A fresh coat of paint is impactful, and decor is important, but what about millwork? The term includes decorative finishes for interiors including molding, trim, flooring and wood paneling. These finely crafted features give a home character and can be an effective way to call back to early 1900s interior design and add some antique flair to a modern home. It calls to mind the ornate decor of a Victorian home or a splendorous Rococo interior. Bring together the meticulously selected aspects of a room with this

Molding on the floor or ceiling creates a luxury, high-end look. Different molding patterns suit different decor styles. For a modern home, a simple, unadorned choice adds all the flair that is needed. More ornate styles of molding, with rosettes, circles and other details, can be installed in houses with a more baroque decor style. Molding has been used to elevate a house’s look since ancient Greek times, though it is far less ubiquitous than it once was. Millwork adds three dimensional texture to walls in a unique manner that can’t be replicated by paint.

Chair rail molding is a popular form seen that divides a wall at its halfway point. It gets its name from its original function, which was to keep seats from scraping the wall and damaging the paint. Today, it is mostly decorative and meticulously kept up. Some interior designers use the division of upper and lower wall as a chance to experiment with using two colors on one wall, on each side of the molding. Millwork extends to wood details on a doorway, or the installation of a dramatic wooden column. Transform a room into an exciting centerpiece with a bold detail on a wall or door. Call a professional for quick and skillful installation.