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Repairing Wooden Decorative Mouldings
Wooden decorative mouldings were used widely in Victorian house and room designs. Your house may still have many of these intact and in good condition. However many period properties have suffered damage to decorative wooden mouldings and these may need…
Repairing Wooden Decorative Mouldings
Decorative wooden mouldings were used widely in a Victorian house and room designs. Your house may still have many of these intact and in good condition. However many period properties have suffered damage to decorative wooden mouldings and these may need replacing or repairing. The main threat to the longevity of wooden mouldings is water damage hence the majority of wooden mouldings that will need replacing in the period property…
Choosing Victorian Wooden Mouldings And Wood Coving
Wood mouldings can really enhance the interior décor of a Victorian or period house.
Choosing Victorian Wooden Mouldings And Wood Coving
Wood mouldings can really enhance the interior décor of a Victorian or period house. The house would have originally had a wide variety of decorative Victorian wooden mouldings and ideally these should all be present in any good period or Victorian house restoration.
What Are Corbels?
Corbels come in many different designs and sizes from the simple scroll cutshape corbel with strong lines, the fluted corbel to the large highly decorative corbels. It’s down to personal taste and the style of the room where the corbel is to be used which is…
What Are Corbels?
If you've been researching Victorian properties, you may be wondering 'what are corbels?' Corbels are a decorative feature that can be used in many different places to enhance the interior of your period home. Anything that looks like it needs to be supported such as shelves or mantelpieces could be enhanced by decorative corbels.
Fitting Traditional Victorian Skirting Boards
Some tips for making a perfect job of skirting in your room. Like all DIY jobs, it will take time to get it right but the result will be worth taking your time over.
Fitting Traditional Victorian Skirting Boards
There are many different styles of traditional Victorian skirting available to fit into your period house. It is likely that you already have skirting in some places but that it has become damaged or needs to be replaced. Skirting boards are relatively cheap to buy and apart from minor cosmetic damage, is probably not worth the time and cost of wood filler and other materials to repair it.
The Origin of Mouldings
From the 16th century, 5 distinct orders were recognized whose origins come from Ancient Greece with some modifications by the Romans: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
The Origin of Mouldings
Decorative plaster mouldings and wooden mouldings originate from the Classical Order, one of the ancient styles of classical architecture, each having its own proportions, profiles and details and recognizable by the type of column used.