Mouldings can do more than just hide seams: they can emphasize, beautify, style, and finish the interior. Read our best tips for choosing mouldings.
Interior mouldings are traditionally used to finish the boundaries of rooms. Ceiling mouldings and floor mouldings define the room and are often the last step in a renovation, but nowadays the role of mouldings is becoming an increasingly central part of design – a polished and finished result is made with mouldings.
The most important mouldings in the home are floor and ceiling mouldings as well as various casing mouldings. Ceiling mouldings are not always necessary in every space, but most often a fairly discreet shadow moulding is chosen for the ceiling. Casing mouldings around door frames and windows, on the other hand, follow the style of the base moulding.
CENT's basic mouldings are made from Finnish pine or MDF. Pine mouldings are available pre-painted, lacquered, stained, and also unfinished. Wooden mouldings withstand processing well and can be painted multiple times. Wooden mouldings also absorb and release moisture.
Shadow moulding is a stylish, discreet choice for the ceiling edge.
Proven rules of thumb for choosing mouldings
We have been supplying home finishing products for 30 years. Our experience has shown a few proven rules of thumb for choosing mouldings:
- Choose the shape of the mouldings according to the spirit and architecture of the home. The style of the mouldings can reflect the building period of the house. For example, decorative, patterned mouldings suit old apartments. Now, beautiful, striking base mouldings and wall surfaces are being made in old apartments, creatively using decorative mouldings.
- When choosing mouldings, consider the height of the room: if the moulding is tall, it can make the space feel low. A good basic rule is that the lower the room, the lower the moulding should be.
- Choose the wood tone to match the other wood surfaces in the home. The absolutely most common moulding color is white. The base moulding color can also be chosen according to the floor color – this style is often repeated in houses built in the 1960s and 70s.
- When choosing a suitable color for the moulding, first think about what you want to emphasize in the space? Is the intention to create a calm first impression, a harmonious whole, or to highlight, for example, window openings with certain colored window mouldings, thus emphasizing the view and the size of the windows?
- In renovations, a large number of cables can be hidden in the cable grooves of base mouldings. So consider in advance how much space the cables will take.
- Remember that you can try a bolder interior style by implementing one room with the most striking mouldings.
- Order a free sample piece and find the perfect moulding for your project!
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