Product Description

In this new, expanded edition of Jay Silber's ground-breaking first book, New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork focuses on the aesthetic uses of architectural trimwork. Plenty of books tell the reader how to install trim around windows and doors, but few also explain how architectural trim can enhance a room's aesthetic appeal. Silber shows readers even more ideas on how to choose and use a wide variety of moldings, trim, and design concepts to transform the all-too-common sterile, open floor plan into a warm, inviting, richly textured home. This new edition of Trimwork provides ideas for how to decorate homes with trim and wall panels so that walls, passageways, and stairways can radiate the warmth, character, and beauty of the well-appointed homes of eras gone by.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138296 in Books
• Brand: CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS
• Published on: 2001-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Features

• Creative Homeowner #277495 Decorating/Trimwork Book
• CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS

Review
"From how to install trimwork like a professional, to cutting and fitting perfect corner joints, to designing and installing crown molding, Decorating with Architectural Trimwork is the ideal how-to manual for the job. The text is very straightforward, written so that the lay reader will have no confusion, and the pictures clearly illustrate what tools are needed for each job and how they are best used. Decorating with Architectural Trimwork is a 'must' for any do-it-yourself enthusiast who wants to use trim to add to the aesthetic interior design value [of] their home!"
Bookwatch
November 2001


"Decorating with Architectural Trimwork is a full-color, 'user-friendly' guide, extensively illustrated with step-by-step photographs, which will enable anyone to personally add beauty and elegance to their home."
James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review


"If you own a house without all the trimmings, Jay Silber has a book full of suggestions. Decorating with Architectural Trimwork offers a bounty of suggestions for enhancing rooms and halls..."
The Columbus Dispatch
September 29, 2001

Review
"If you own a house without all the trimmings, Jay Silber has a book full of suggestions. Decorating with Architectural Trimwork offers a bounty of suggestions for enhancing rooms and halls..."
The Columbus Dispatch
September 29, 2001

From the Back Cover
Decorating with Architectural Trimwork shows you how to design and install beautiful base trim, cornices, chair rails, case moldings, wall treatments, and more in rooms, halls, and stairwells.
- Over 380 full-color photographs
- More than 110 detailed illustrations
- Over 30 complete photo sequences of trim installations

Customer Reviews

Very useful for ideas and techniques
This book is wonderful. Starting with some carpentry skills of my own, I was able to design and trim out my entire dining room with crown molding, chair rail, wall frames etc. This book was invaluable in helping me design and execute the project.

Yes, it is really a decorating book
Well, I should have known. The title "Decorating with..." tells it all. It is first and foremost a decorating book that the wife would love. This book has the best and sharpest color pictures of any decorating book and is very tastefully presented. But it is skimpy or just plain bad at helping you to DIY. There is little that is useful in technique and little that is useful for tackling the complexities of say installing crown moulding. But, I can't fault the author. After all, the title is "Decorating with...".

Pretty Pics, Spotty Advice
If you're interested in ideas for interior woodwork, this book offers some nice photos that may inspire a project ... and sometimes inspiration is just what's needed to get us out of the chair and actively working. However, if you're interested in executing the work that's shown, an inexperienced carpenter will be hard pressed to succeed based on the information here. No book can substitute for experience, and this book is great for dreamers, but there are better carpentry guides out there if you actually want to do the work.