5 Home Decor Tips to Spruce up that Home for Spring
Give your rooms instant architectural interest with crown molding. You can create a dynamic look with the reasonably priced, paintable moldings and trims offered at any home improvement center or online. Here are just a few of the many affordable ways to give a space a classic, well designed look.
- Add crown molding to a room, and you also add pedigree. Profiles range from simple to elaborate, and some can create the illusion of a sculpted ceiling. Also you can run a line of flat molding or "chair rail" just a few inches inside the crown molding along the ceiling to give it a whole new dimention.. I recieved this picture today from one of our more adventerous customers. He is fixing up a baby room for the expectant wife. Look what a difference that extra line made on the ceiling. That flat molding didn't cost him more than $15.
- Install a chair rail to add elegance and definition to a space. This element also creates the opportunity to combine complementary colors or a solid color and pattern for additional visual interest. It also works to protect the wall from damage by heavy chairs or furniture. Imagine that!
- Use a small crown molding and parallel trim piece to make a frieze along the top perimeter of a room, and paint a border design or apply texture or an allover pattern between the boundaries. You can now purchase paintable wall paper for this very purpose. It has a pattern stamped into the paper so that it looks like a plaster work of art on the wall. Very exciting product from Europe and now available here.
- Apply beautiful pieces of wallpaper directly to a wall and then trim out with decorative molding for a pretty framed-art effect. Or swap in solid color as a backdrop to a collection of framed photos or other keepsakes.
- Change a room's mood by painting trim and molding with colors from a tone-on-tone palette or by using contrasting colors for dramatic effect.For example I installed crown molding in my daughters room, it was a flower detail and my daughter painted all 64 flowers pink and yellow.
Installing these molding is also becoming simpler as smart manufacturing responds to the do-it-yourselfer crowd. For example, So Simple Crown Molding is made out of foam and can be help in place with just caulk. It also comes with pre-cut corners and they will go as far as precutting the entire room. Perfect if you are all thumbs when it comes to projects around the house.

