Woodwork Trim for Doors and Floors

Once the flooring and doors are installed in your home some decorative trim molding is needed. This enhances every room. If you are doing this on your own, research. Descriptions of molding types are useful. Custom moldings are milled or stock hardwood and can be combined. Hardwood molding is used for home trim and woodwork. Astragal molding is a decorative material usually used at the top or base of columns, or on woodwork. This is used with more complex molding and applied to close a gap between doors. Trim around the floor is called baseboard molding.

It is used to fill in gaps, uneven edges of wood and protects walls from damaging bumps or kicking. There are different grades of molding and depends on your preference of painting or a natural wood finish. Moldings for door casing or baseboards are usually the paintable grade and are usually less costly. They consist of plaster or polystyrene foam. Casing is door molding. Another trim for doors is doorjamb molding. It's applied to the gaps between any walls and frame. The trim that keeps the door from closing past the doorjamb is called the doorstop.

Place it on the side of the interior doorframe. If trimming a dining room with lots of chairs consider chair rail molding, which is placed around walls at three feet from the floor. It protects walls from scuffs and dents. You can build your own moldings. This may take time and hints are needed such as avoiding nails in the trim for thresholds that rest on the subfloors for there will be a lot of holes needing to be filled in. Liquid nails are an alternative. Some parts of moldings may need the tight fit of nailing. Just remember that before you began research this may prevent some headaches.