Decoration: 8 ways to integrate and Dado Rails - Decorating Ideas For Small Rooms

Decoration: 8 ways to integrate and Dado Rails

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Decoration: 8 ways to integrate and Dado Rails - Picture With a real estate boom in the cities after the Industrial Revolution, most houses in the architectural landscape of Britain are properties time built in the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras. Like thousands of people flocked to the cities, there was little space to build sprawling homes, and wealth was shown instead through the finer details.

Proportions were much more generous than they tend to be today and ceilings were much higher. Moulding was used to add decoration and interest for rooms - the most elaborate, the better. picture rails - molding strips that sit just below the ceiling - served two functions: to balance the height of the ceiling to give a room a better sense of proportion, and allow items to be hung on the walls without worry of damaging them. Dado rails - molding strips that run along the wall up to size - were originally created to protect the walls of furniture banging against them.

Period houses still have these characteristics, and people are often confused about how best to work them into their design scheme. Check out these images to guide a visual effects that can be created by painting the dado and picture rails in different ways.