Trim Idea Book [Paperback]

Mary Ellen Polson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Taunton Home Idea Books | Publication Date: April 1, 2005

Since 1950, most American homes have been built with plain clamshell molding, narrow colonial molding, or no molding at all, leaving the interior architecture naked and uncelebrated. Trim Idea Book shows how to change all that and highlights a wide range of styles, from 21st-century designs, including craftsman, natural, and minimalist, to period and period-inspired motifs. The book showcases hundreds of ways homeowners can use trim to spotlight and define the interior architecture of their homes - and even to compensate for its shortcomings. Trim can help define spaces that in themselves feel too large and can add volume and dimension to rooms that are otherwise too small. Trim can frame doors and windows, enhancing their presence on walls that have daunting expanses, or hiding construction flaws. Molding and trim - of wood as well as man-made materials - are readily available at home centers as well as traditional lumberyards. Style options are endless. Ideas for walls, ceilings, doors, windows, stairways, and built-ins such as bookshelves, headboards, and fireplace surrounds are all shown.

Product Details

• Paperback: 153 pages
• Publisher: Taunton Press (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561587109
• ISBN-13: 978-1561587100
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 9.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,123 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A photo-packed idea book which covers all kinds of styles and options, December 8, 2005

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trim Idea Book (Paperback)

Nothing defines a room like trim, and Trim Idea Book offers not just wall trim ideas, but tips on handling doorways, ceilings, stairs, mantels and more. Enrich and add color to different kinds of ceilings, trim a door to frame a view, and understand how informal and formal casings affect appearance in a photo-packed idea book which covers all kinds of styles and options.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My builder borrowed this, August 25, 2007

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S. Weidner "sharienne2" (Carroll, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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I was marking things in this book and walking him through my ideas for my home. He borrowed it and still hasn't given it back. I guess that means we both liked it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for relatively expensive homes and ideas, March 17, 2009

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Richard F. Ward (Glen Allen) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trim Idea Book (Paperback)

The book caters towards relatively expensive homes. Some of the book's excellent ideas can be adopted, requiring the reader's imagination, to less expensive homes.