Hi
Does any one know of any guidelines for the sizing of ceiling medallions. My wife would like one in our dinning room (roughly 10′ x 10′), I am thinking that 15″ one yet my wife thinks we should go a little bigger say 19″. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Richard
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I'm more of the opinion that the size of the lighting fixture is more important than the size of the room: a single glass globe will be dwarfed by a big medallion while an ornate crystal fixture will support a large one.
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
What Phill said.
Tip from a designer (not me), if you are choosing between two sizes of chandelier for the dining room, go with the bigger one.
Where all else fails, do what DW says.
Edit. didn't know it's your first post, welcome.
Edited 12/30/2004 3:36 pm ET by TOMCHARK
Tack up a piece of cardboard 19 inches in diameter and leave it there a week. Take it down, trim it to 15 inches in diameter and tack it up again for another week. Then let the wife decide.
ya stole my thunder ...
in times of doubt ...
cardboard template.
I've even gone so far as mocking up cab's for customers that can't decide ...
and you're right ... put it up ... and live with it for a week or so ...
Jeff
coardboard or blue Dow foam board work well .... pin or tape together ... Buck Construction
Artistry in Carpentry
Pgh, PA
I'd say it needs to be scaled to the chandelier and the room size. 10x10 is not a very large dining room. I'd say Ben's solution is the best...
Hey - here is a Q: anyone got any ideas or pics for making a medallion? It would hard to make something round, but it would seem like an octagonal would be easy... Thoughts?
Hi
Thanks for the advice about the medallion. A few years back I saw a This Old House episode where they shaped a plaster molding just by draging a cut out of the shape they wanted back and forth as the plaster set up in a form. It seems to me that you could rig up something similar in a circular form. I also think that a router, circle or elipse jig and MDF could make a very nice medallion if you used a variety of bits and layers of MDF.
Edited 12/31/2004 8:55 am ET by Bif
Hmmm. Not been married long.
For the sake of domestic peace, if not bliss, go with whatever she wants. This works both ways. If it looks good you get minor points for not giving her grief, being cooperative. If it doesn't you get the big payoff. Both points for being cooperative and a 'told you so' to hold in reserve for the day, and you know it is coming, when you need leverage to counter a screw up of your own. Be sure to keep that powder dry until really needed.
Remember that in the long run mere decor is an insignificant contributor to your happiness compared to domestic relations. Besides most women are better at it and feel it is more deeply about it than most men. There are exceptions. Let her have her points in areas she cares more about. With luck she might grant the same favor in some area your more concerned with.