I am looking for ideas for the design of an Arts and Crafts baseboard and coordinating doors, door frames, and window frames in a great room. I can find ideas on Shaker style baseboard with a chamfered edge on top with a bull-nose underneath. This is mounted on a straight board edged with quarter round. Any other ideas or suggestions?
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I am also interested A&C "look" and have not found much on baseboards.
You can see a lot of pictures which show up door and window trim, but few of the show much detail on the baseboard.
Tauntons "Trim Carpentry Techniques" by Craig Savage has a few examples of A&C trim. I am looking at one which is new house that uses a lot of Greene and Greene styles in it. The baseboard is fairly wide. I did not try to scale it, but maybe 5-6". It is appears to be about 3/4-7/8 thick and buts up to 1/2-5/8 door casing. Where it meets the edge is just softly rounded, as is the top edge. Then there is a small (3/4 x 1/4) trim that runs along the top of the base.
I think that most of the baseboard are fairly plain. Flat board with a beveled top, 1/4 round or simple bead.
You can see lots of pictures of window and door trim. There are many books on A&C homes now at the bookstores and librarys. They are not books on trim, but you can go through the pictures and get ideas.
Some sytles of trim include simple but joint of the side and top casing with the top casine a little thicker and also a little long to over hange the side casing by 1/4-1/2"
Another is simple but joint casing with the whole thing back banded by a piece of molding with a 1/2 round edge and is just proud of the flats.
Another is a simple flat casing that is continous around the room form a low picture rail and the top casing of all of the doors and windows. And but jointed flat casing.
Some are simple flat casing with a bed molding on the top to make a mini crown.
"More than One Way to Case a Window" FHB Oct 95, reprinted in the Best of FHB, FINISH CARPENTRY.
There are proably this and a couple of other articles and A&C (Craftsman, Bungalow, Greene and Greene, Prarie Style) in back issues of FBH. If you go to FHB, artives you can buy indiviual articles for a couple of bucks.
Also about 3-4 years ago Wood magazine (www.woodmagazine.com) had an aritcle on trim that had mock ups of several different styles of trim including A&C.
They have also down a couple of room make overs in the A&C sytle. Searching the index should show those.
Also Family Handyman and/or Woodbench has had articles in the last couple of years where they redo a room or fireplace surround in the A&C style.
Thanks for the information on the A&C baseboard. I will search out your suggestions. Thanks Again!
Keyapaha