I have taken several walls out of a friends house, to open up the space of rooms that don’t get used very much. I have done this before, and trimmed the openings with arches, and trimmed the facings to look more like columns supporting the ends of the arches.
I am interested in seeing what others are doing to use details with a contemporary feel, yet achieve some of the same results that all of the fluting and moldings of past designs succeeded at. Does anybody have a link to anything exciting that they have seen lately?
I am not looking for anything to copy. I have some ideas cooking, I am just looking for inspirations to help fill in the missing pieces. Thanks K
PS, I will try to get back with some details from the last time, if it is not clear as to what I am asking. I just don’t have any photos of that in my files.
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Greetings K,
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again which will increase it's viewing.
Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.
Cheers
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people've been telling me I was one ever since I was a kid.
Thanks rez, but I think I have worked out the details that I will be using.As it turns out, the crown will be fairly simple with a small dentil. The part that will give them pizzaz will be the way that I plan to handle the flutes. I won't actually cut flutes from top to bottom of the column, but rather will be using a carving tip in a hand held long-neck die-grinder, that will be touched along between the lines starting at the top thicker, getting progressively lighter, fading into nothing in a short distance.In the sample that I have done, this gives the illusion of of the shadows of the flutes without them actually being fluted. At a glance your eye sees it as something that is not there, because the mind fills the blank with what it expects is there.I will try to remember to post some photos when I get them done.
That's interesting. By using the carving tip in a hand held long-neck die-grinder,
I take it you'll be using some sort of straightedge feature but how will you contol lessening the depth as you proceed down the column?
Since you say it is a short distance will you be just eyeballing it?