Special Touches for Any Room

Room decorating and designing can sometimes be scary with all of the choices that are available. Homeowners may feel afraid to decorate their home according to their own decorating style, because they are afraid that it will not look good. This then leads them to leave the room unfinished, which makes the room feel unappealing and boring. Adding special touches of décor in a room may be just the thing that a room needs to make it feel more complete, so that it will become a warm and inviting room to you and your family and friends.

Some special touches that you may want to consider for your room are ceiling medallions, ceiling domes, corbels, and molding. Each of these items can be easily installed and they can help add some detailing to your room to make it more visually interesting. Adding just one of these pieces can give your room that special touch that it needs to make it feel and look more complete and together. Where can you add these special touches?

The ceiling. The ceiling is an often overlooked surface in homes. Adding ceiling domes or ceiling medallions in conjunction with your lighting fixtures or alone can add detail to your ceiling that is unmatched.

The walls. Walls can seem to go on and on when you are trying to decorate. By adding touches of molding to transition to the ceiling, you can make the walls more visually interesting. Chair railing is also a great way to add a special touch to your walls. Breaking up the walls with chair railings will make them more appealing to look at.

Corbels and rosettes can make any wall look better. They can give you an accent that is unmatched by anything else. This could be the special touch that your room needs to help make it more appealing to you and your family and friends. They come in a variety of styles and sizes to enable you to find the right one for your room and for your particular decorating style.

Special touches can make any room feel warmer and more comfortable for you and your friends. By finishing your room, you will be able to relax and enjoy the room much more than you would if the room were left unfinished. The special touches may not seem like they make much impact, but the details are where the heart is-in your home and in your decorating.

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Using Your Personality to Design Your Room

Infusing your personality into the decorating of any one of your rooms brings your unique personality to the look and feel of that room. This decorating strategy also makes your room feel warmer and more inviting to your friends and family. Adding accents and décor that you love and that express things that are important to you will help to make the room feel more comfortable to you. Rather than looking for items that are "in" or "trendy", you only have to be willing to look for items that appeal to you and which speak to your particular personality.

Where do you start? Start by looking at different decorating accents to see what appeals to you. Look at atypical decorating accents, such as rosettes, corbels, ceiling medallions, and niches. Choose pieces that inspire you; decorative items that you love the look and feel of. By choosing your pieces carefully, you will help to make your room more interesting to look at and more fun to be in. You don’t have to pick a lot of accents, in fact, the fewer that you choose the more the visual interest and appeal you will create.

Look online, in stores, at craft shows, flea markets, antique stores, and anywhere else that you may come into contact with decorative accents for your room and home. By looking at different sources, you may find that your decorating style is quite eclectic and unique. You can mix decorating styles, but you want to be careful in doing so to make sure that you are not taking away from the décor of your room. By choosing pieces that you truly love, no matter what decorating style that they fit into, you will be able create a space that is warm and alive for you and the members of your family.

The details are what make a room feel more alive and welcoming. Decorative accents such as ceiling medallions, corbels, rosettes, and moldings can make a huge difference in how your room looks and feels. By choosing details like these carefully, you can infuse your personality and interests into your home and into your individual rooms. You will be surprised by how much life these small accents can add to your room. You have created a room that is comfortable and inviting to your friends and family; a room that people want to spend time in.

At GoCeilingMedallion.com, you can find wonderful examples of decorative accents, like those mentioned above. We have a wide variety of elegant ceiling medallions, 18 K Gold Leaf crown moldings as well as a wide variety of other types of accents. We are your GO TO people for all of your decorative ceiling needs. Visit GoCeilingMedallion.com now to see what we can do for you.

The Many Advantages of Flexible Molding

Have you ever wanted to put crown molding around an arched doorway or a curved wall in one of your rooms, but couldn’t find anything to use, so you gave up? Well, you might have given up too early. Flexible molding was designed for just such projects. Flexible molding makes it a cinch to decorate around curved walls and arched doorways and windows.

Flexible molding is made from a compound polymer resin that has been engineered to bend or curve around more challenging shapes. It can be bent or twisted without breaking or splintering. Flexible molding can actually be purchased in a range of grades, from very flexible to totally rigid.

You can find flexible molding in just about any design and type you can imagine. Chair rails, baseboards, cornice, window casements, and crown, are all available for your decorative needs. Keep in mind, though, that you really only want to use flexible molding where it is essential to your home improvement project, as it does cost much more than wood millwork.

One of the best features of flexible molding is it's superiority to wood. Flexible molding can be stained, painted, or sealed just as ordinary molding, but without having to prime the surface first. It also resists warping, wearing, splitting, or mildewing, so it's great for outdoor use as well.

Flexible molding conforms to any radius and it is easily installed. The cost of labor is kept down by eliminating standard procedures, such as steaming or cut-n-fill, that would usually be required when decorating rounded walls and columns.

Another great advantage of flexible millwork products is that they look just like real wood. They can be painted, cut, sawed, drilled or shaped just like real wood products. You can use flexible molding on any radius or curved treatment where wood can not be used.

Advantages of Flexible Molding

The advantages and uses for flexible molding are numerous and allow the homeowner to modernize their home in new and original design conceptions. Here is a brief recap of the advantages of flexible molding:

• It looks like real wood.
• It is durable so it can also be used exteriorly
• It’s flexibility is a major advantage
• It resists moisture
• It is insect resistant
• It can be finished like wood
• It can be painted like wood
• It can be found in a variety of designs
• It can be routed, cut, sawed or shaped like wood
• Flexible molding is not affected by heat, cold, moisture or salt
• It can be painted, sanded, or stained
• It can be drilled, nailed, or glued
• It is easily installed

GoCeilingMedallion.com offers several brands of flexible molding from our manufacturers. These moldings offer an incredible labor savings when your decorative molding installations necessitate a curved or arched product. They can be custom ordered from a wide collection of crown, cornice, chair rail, frieze, and panel moldings.

Most moldings can be ordered in incremental lengths from 4 feet to 12 feet and you can order any combination of these lengths for your application.

Some general recommendations for both types of flexible molding address surface preparation and pre-installation groundwork.

Before Installation:

• You may choose to finish (paint or faux finish) the molding before installation
• You should place the molding in the room for 48 to 72 hours before installing in order to allow the molding to adjust to the temperature and humidity levels of the room
• ALWAYS store molding in a dry, well-ventilated, low-humidity area
• NEVER store your molding outdoors.

Surface Preparation:

• Clean all surfaces free of dirt and loose particles with a clean cloth or sponge
• Make sure the area is completely dry before installing.

The photos above give you some idea of the flexibility and advantages of flexible molding. Anywhere you can imagine using flexible molding or any style that you desire are possible to afford you the capability to design the home of your dreams. Give GoCeilingMedallion.com a call with your custom order today.