1001 Ideas for Trimwork (Home Decorating) (English and English Edition) [Paperback]

Wayne Kalyn (Author), Home Decorating (Author), Trim (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home Decorating | Publication Date: October 1, 2005

Trimwork and molding add style and character and rids a room of the "empty box syndrome" that is common to most modern housing. With over 1080 color photographs and illustrations, 1001 Ideas for Trimwork presents molding profiles and designs to turn any style home into a showplace. Topics cover window and door casings, crown moldings, chair rail, friezes, niches, wainscoting, pillars, stair embellishments, and mantel moldings. In addition to hundreds of molding designs, the book includes scores of examples of professionally decorated rooms enhanced with trimwork and molding. Bring warmth and character to every room in the home with 1001 Ideas for Trimwork.

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Book Description

Trimwork and molding add style and character and rids a room of the "empty box syndrome" that is common to most modern housing. With over 1080 color photographs and illustrations, 1001 Ideas for Trimwork presents molding profiles and designs to turn any style home into a showplace. Topics cover window and door casings, crown moldings, chair rail, friezes, niches, wainscoting, pillars, stair embellishments, and mantel moldings. In addition to hundreds of molding designs, the book includes scores of examples of professionally decorated rooms enhanced with trimwork and molding. Bring warmth and character to every room in the home with 1001 Ideas for Trimwork.

From the Back Cover

1001 Ideas for Trimwork

• Filled with over 1,000 ways to use trimwork and molding to add character and enhance the look and livability of your home

• Over 350 color photos that show how any room will benefit from the addition of trimwork and other architectural details

• Over 725 illustrations of molding designs and profiles that you can use in your home, including chair rails, crown molding, wainscoting, and more

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Creative Homeowner; First edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580112609
• ISBN-13: 978-1580112604
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #54 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > How-to & Home Improvements > Carpentry

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ideas Galore, March 14, 2006

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J. D. Dunn "Maverick Growth Solutions" (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
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If you're doing trimwork but have never spent a lot of time looking at various ideas out there, this is an excellent book to get your creative mind going. There are numerous variations of trim possibilities within these pages. But the best thing for me was the pages of molding profiles showing the various types and styles of molding available. Not all of it is available in my market, but it gave me ideas for molding I could make using my tools. Overall a really good book - I keep it by my bedside and go through it regularly just to create new ideas for trimwork.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5-star idea book, October 17, 2007

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L. Harris "skytag" (Winter Haven, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1001 Ideas for Trimwork (Home Decorating) (English and English Edition) (Paperback)

This is definitely a "big picture" idea book. Lots of pictures to give you ideas about how you can use trim, as well as some design tips and discussions of using trim, the use of colors and such. My only real complaint is that I wish there were more closeups so I could see more detail on the trim used in some of the rooms.

It's not at all a guide for installing trim, which makes the brief chapter covering the tools used to install trim seem a bit out of place. But I wanted trim ideas and this has them, and at a reasonable price. There are plenty of books that discuss installing trim.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent book, but I own better ones, February 8, 2008

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Richard Sherwood (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1001 Ideas for Trimwork (Home Decorating) (English and English Edition) (Paperback)

I am a custom carpenter in the metro Detroit area, and am addicted to trim books. I use them to come up with and/or show ideas to my customers. As a result I have a large library. I picked up this book hoping to find something new. Its title is a little bit misleading, and I think they stretched the truth a little bit with their claim of 1001 Ideas. There are a lot of details pictured in the book, but I think too many of the 1001 are together in one picture (room) that is too small to highlight each idea. I own much better books, and find myself going to them far more often than this book when looking for new ideas or solutions for my customers' spaces. Don't get me wrong, the book is not a terrible book. It just does not live up to the title in my oppinion, and as I wrote above, I own better books on trimwork. Check out my other reviews for titles.