Many millennials (the largest home-buying group) seek relatively small homes compared to previous generations, allowing them to create personalized spaces with character and charm. Supplying these customers with innovative moulding options for their walls, doors, windows and ceilings provides a simple and low-cost way to add depth, texture and warmth to their unique homes.
1. Frame and Panel Moulding for Closet Doors and Walls
Frame and panel mouldings provide a quick and straightforward way to upgrade a dull space.
- Applying frame or panel moulding in a square pattern to a plain door or empty wall adds depth, instantly giving the area a refined classic look.
- Framing lightswitches can break the uniformity of the room, adding texture and personality to the space.
- Furthermore, homeowners can revamp a ceiling, by adding rectangular or square mouldings around a central point, like a ceiling light.
2. Handrail Mouldings
In combination with newels, stair treads, balusters and assorted trim pieces, handrail mouldings create the banister (stairway), often a room's focal point. Therefore the staircases’ style, whether modern, Victorian, classic or farmhouse, should reflect the homeowner’s decor.
- Natural wood handrail mouldings stained to showcase the grain and carved details contribute to a warm, craftsman-style home.
- Some homeowners want the staircase to fade into the background, either to allow other trim and wall treatments to stand out or to achieve a sleek, modern aesthetic. Installing narrow handrails minimizes the disruption of the sightlines between the staircase and the adjacent room.
3. Farmhouse Moulding Ideas
Farmhouse mouldings give a room a warm, approachable, family-friendly feel — popular with many of today’s homeowners.
- Homeowners can achieve a tailored farmhouse feel of warmth and depth by installing simple white wood moulding around the windows and doors and along the baseboards and ceiling.
- Placing discreet-simple crown moulding
at the edge of the ceiling adds to a farmhouse look. It also lengthens the walls, a good choice in a narrow hallway or foyer. - Rustic white shiplap accent walls applied horizontally, contribute to a sense of harmony and tranquility of a farmhouse style. It also makes the room appear larger.
4. Vinyl Floor Mouldings
Low-maintenance, water-resistant and durable vinyl flooring requires moisture-resistant baseboard mouldings with the force needed to hold the vinyl sheet in place, which can be achieved by layering multiple mouldings.
Multiple mouldings installed around the bottom edge of a room where the wall meets the vinyl floor add a decorative accent to the room, providing water and wear resistance and ensuring the longevity of use thanks to the several layers of mouldings.
5. Chair Rails
A simple chair rail, installed one-third or two-thirds up the wall, offers an easy and low-cost solution to transforming a bland room into a sophisticated space. For homeowners with small rooms, adding chair rails can make the space look larger, particularly if they apply a dark color to the area below the railing.
6. Architraves and Window Casings
Windows surrounded with casings and paired with an architrave draw the eye to the outside, making the room seem more expansive. For a casual-farmhouse feel, select simple casings and architraves. However, applying multiple layers of decorative pieces, like pearl and dentil mouldings, on top of the architrave adds extra personality, producing looks from bohemian to classic or historical.
7. Shiplap
Shiplap boards allow homeowners to quickly, easily, and inexpensively add a unique and charming accent to any style room — rustic, modern, farmhouse and even sophisticated. Homeowners can even use shiplap orientation to create an illusion of space. For example, installing a vertical shiplap draws eyes upward, creating width, while installing a horizontal shiplap enlarges the room.
Innovative Mouldings Provide a Quick and Easy Way to Personalize and Upgrade a Home
Mouldings offer homeowners endless-creative ways of transforming bland, tiresome spaces into rooms with interest and character, whether striving for a farmhouse, modern, urban, traditional or Victorian style. The best part of mouldings, however, is they offer homeowners a low-cost way to upgrade their homes, adding charm and resale value.
