Personalizing Your Home With Hardware & Trim
There’s a lot that goes into making a home special, and many people put all their attention into choosing furniture and paint colors. But one of the things that can take a home from builder’s grade to truly unique is personalizing your home with hardware and trim.
This is one of the areas that separates the ordinary from the exceptional, and details can be added over time as your budget allows. A great place to start is with crown moldings, like dentil or egg and dart, pictured above. In my home, we also took care in selecting rods for our window coverings that had the character of our room design. The finials here evoke a sense of European elegance that sits comfortably with our French country decor.
Decorative brass door handles work well against these mahogany stained closet doors. They’re the first thing you see when you enter my front door and become a focal point in the entry foyer, setting the tone for the house.
Architectural woodcarvings can be added to various flat surfaces, lending a delightful flourish to your trim. We added this one from Enkeboll Designs to our fireplace mantel for a playful yet pretty touch.
Another one of my favorite trim details is our wood tie backs in the dining room. They were stained to match the rod finials with a distressed gilded finish.
The French doors in our library have beveled glass panes, but I particularly like the bead trim knobs.
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good thought! Thanks.
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Very nice ideas. Where did you get the Curtin rod?
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