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The Emergence of Timber Mouldings

From early years to those more modern, timber mouldings have graced the most modish and fashionable of decorating walls, windows, doors, and interiors. Decorative timber mouldings such as cornices, coving and skirtings have stayed as an ever admired concluding detail; tremendously versatile and sturdy, enhancing the aesthetics of any home and giving a level of detail, which emphasizes on the class of a room. Wooden skirting and timber mouldings have a huge series of uses, many of which came into existence during the Victorian epoch. Timber skirting boards are the only existing feature of three interior timber mouldings objects discovered in the Victorian homes; the others being picture and dado railings. In the beginning, timber moulding was a practical piece, used for three main purposes: 1.      To conceal the untidy base edge of plastered walls, which was much less accurate than our smooth forms 2.      To protect the plaster work from any harm from heavy fu