Sound advice for the finishing touch
Decorative trim, such as baseboards, moldings, wainscoting, and casings, adds warmth and depth to otherwise sterile rooms. Home Design Details: Architectural Trim provides practical advice and inspiration for wall, ceiling, door, window, stairway, and built-in trim for every room of the home. The relatively low cost to install new trim coupled with the fact that installation requires only a few tools, makes installing trim a popular home improvement job. While many books cover the basics of installing trim, Home Design Details: Architectural Trim goes a step further and explains why popular designs work so effectively, and how to recreate them in your own home. It is the only book on the subject that breaks apart the details of each room in the home and provides specific information on why design decisions were made each step of the way. Each detail is featured in a three-dimensional illustration so the reader can see how each piece of trim or molding was created. Simple step-by-step DIY projects are provided as well as comprehensive information for making the right design decision for any space.
Product Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
Good But! Nice pictures and ideas but, needs more detail on how things are done.Left a little too much up in the air to guess about for this type of finished work. All in all great pictures and ideas.
OK – but not the best resource I checked this out from the library, and like another reviewer, I was glad I did, rather than purchasing. The book has some good points. It does have some photos of nicely done trimwork, including some unusual examples of stair rails. So as a design idea book, it’s ok, I guess, from that front.Â
A cursory survey. Weak on many fronts There are some pretty pictures of nicely done trim in this book.Â