Architectual Woodworking Package

prismcnd

I promised myself that this year i would be less of a lurker and more of a contributer, so here is a project we are currently working on, old room had standard trim this is the new trim package. I don't know that personally like it but the old saying goes "he who has to pay, has the say". What do you think? Any way to make this room look better by changing the trim? Genuine comments and criticisms welcome

SunroomTrimDetailsConceptual.pdf

Dave R

It's kind of hard to tell with the style you've used so I have questions instead of answers.

What is the room used for? What is the rest of the building like? What sort of furniture will be in there? There isn't enough detail in the trim to know what to suggest. Are those large white spaces windows or doors? If doors, what do they open on? Maybe a bit of bead board wainscoating and a chair rail would look nice on the walls.

Any chance of some photographs of the space?

prismcnd

The room is a sun room off the back of the house, to be used as a media room, the openings being to the exterior of the house. I purposely left the doors and windows out to draw attention strictly to the trim, which is a combination of a standard trim with an architrave that follows along the tops of the sliding doors. Furniture is to be basically a set of couches and end tables. Unfortunately by work laptop is out of commission for the next two days so i will post more once i get it back up and running. Wainscoting and chair rail was talked about but decided against by the owner as too busy. Both valances on the two sides of the room to receive spots shining down and accent lighting shining up (media cables to run inside for speakers and tv.) no photos interior available yet; more to come

gullfo

just a thought or tow on the "media room" part of it, maybe a valence to hide a drop down screen on the side large windows (ok), or over the two end windows (better choice) and have drapes in a valence on either side to cut down lighting and improve acoustics. this way the screen is lower to the eyes (way too high as shown), hidden when not in use (no sense messing up the nice woodwork with TV screens...) or use some nice furniture for the media equipment in front of the 2 end windows. on the ceiling - hang down the projector (if using it, in a nice box is best) and consider the acoustics (likely to be an echo chamber as-is) and putting in some nicely finished peak-of-the-room absorption this could also be a polycylindrical diffuser along the peak.

ledisnomad

hey, prismcnd. Looking good, so far. I have three comments:

Because the spacing of the pilasters does not appear to be uniform (page 04), I would suggest distinguishing the major and minor verticals. I could see two ways of doing it. The first would be to make the smaller pilaster not have a capital. That way it would read as the odd-one out. That would help some, but doesn't completely address that you still would have uneven spacing. So, you could emphasize the door and both windows with a large pilaster on each end, then small ones in between with or without a capital.
On the arched windows, it seems odd that the trim is the same profile on the verticals as over the arch. It could read as two pilasters and an arch if you made the vertical profile different and have a little more bulk, maybe even have the inset panel like the large pilasters.
The length of the valence could use to be broken up, in my opinion. Maybe dental work or some expression of brackets?
Finally, a suggestion unrelated to the design: the trim could be rendered to look a little more white and less gray. The cream color (at least on my screen) on pages 09 and 10 look good. Good luck!