With the chair rail up it was time to focus on the bottom portion of the wall the picture frame molding.
Adding picture frame molding wall.
Although you don t have to combine frames with a chair rail frames that are located low on the wall.
Again there is no right or wrong way to size your boxes.
Designing picture frame moulding for walls is really just about finding good balance and using a whole lot of masking tape.
This is where i really needed finn s help well at least his mighty math brain.
While the height h of each frame will be the same for each wall the width will differ depending on the length of the wall and the number of picture frames you intend on using.
And the panels above the windows were simply drawn to fit the space.
I m going to build a box to go under them so i can add my baseboards at the bottom of them.
How to do it design wall frames.
Using a scrap piece of 1 4 i traced out the spacings and placement for the frames.
Typically picture frame moulding frames are spaced out 3 to 4.
Okay let s dive into this.
And that s all there is to it.
152 inches total wall width 21 inches total width needed for spacing 131 inches 5 panels 26 2 inches wide for each panel.
The side panels are the exact same size as the panels for wall 2 and wall 3.
I bought the book shelves at walmart.
I build a electric fireplace and put it on one wall with short book shelves on each side.
So i subtracted 21 inches from the total wall width 152 inches and then divided that number by 5 to arrive at the width needed for each picture frame.
Tips to add picture frame molding.