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Transform your home with architectural mouldings

When it comes to redecorating your home, skirting boards, architraves, handrails and the likes don’t get much attention. Let’s be honest, choosing soft furnishings seems a lot more exciting. But the right architectural mouldings can, for a relatively low price, transform your home.

Intrim Mouldings is a leading manufacturer in finely crafted, quality timber mouldings. With options to suit any style or design, you can get trimwork that is quintessential Hamptons to Victorian heritage and everything in-between. They’re particularly ideal if you want to refresh an old home or add some character and period details to a new build.

It truly is bang for your buck. One Intrim customer recently bought a home for $930,000 and spent $4,367 on bespoke timber mouldings (they also repainted the walls and put in a new carpet). Refresh done, and the home was valued at $1.275 million! You can’t argue with that return on investment.

Let’s take a closer look at the design options:

The Hamptons style is defined by casual, relaxed beachside living but done in a classic and very sophisticated way. The look is bright and breezy, featuring high skirting boards with big rounded profile features and beautiful wall wainscoting.

The French Provincial style combines fanciful furnishings with fine linens and gentle tones. Very ornate and decoratively detailed mouldings are showcased around fireplaces, on walls and as beautiful cornice and skirting boards.

The Edwardian/Georgian look is all about coordination! These styles rely on straight lines, symmetry and finesse to achieve a clean look. Skirting boards, chair rails and picture rails are typical of this style with textiles and tapestries hung as features. Timber mouldings are stained or painted in similar tones, and furnishings blend perfectly with the walls.

“More of everything” is the trademark of the Colonial/Victorian era, with homes incorporating various styles ranging from classic facades to extremely ornate and decorative embellishments. Highly detailed dado rails, wall panelling and skirting boards are synonymous with the look.

Interior mouldings in Modern homes often use a minimal shadowline skirting or a smaller profile with sharp, hard lines. Timber trimwork is painted to cover the natural grain or is used as a contrast to more artificial shapes and materials such as concrete.

Once you have picked the look you like, the Intrim Room Styler is your next port of call. Super easy to use, it helps you visualise your chosen mouldings in your home. Simply choose one of the room scenes based on your preferred interior style and quickly find the perfect trimwork to create the exact design you want. You can then request a sample and once you are sure on your decision, the final mouldings will be dispatched within five days from order.

Intrim manufacture in Picton, NSW, and deliver Australia-wide.

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House tour: historical Sydney property gets a revival

One of the country’s most distinct and unique suburbs, Sydney’s Centennial Parklands is rich in history. With buildings dating back to the 1800s, the area is now home to the likes of pavilions, equestrian fields and parks, as well as numerous beautiful residences.

While many of these houses hold a lot of character from the 19th century, today’s fast-paced lifestyle has called for a redefinition of living spaces, something Sydney residential architects Peter Willett Associates (PWA), were tasked with in redesigning a grand Edwardian Centennial Park estate.

[contextly_sidebar id=”5ibpE6fjwrVCw71Q63TbmqdHdGxRJR8Y”]The property, once an infamous building for its unauthorised (!) commercial use, is now a stately home, complete with fully functional granny flat. Through thoughtful design, the latest life of the property combines the best of modern architecture without sacrificing its historical aspects. “When you’re dealing with such a historical site such as Centennial Park it’s imperative that you preserve the property’s historical baseline,” says Peter Willett, principal architect of PWA. “We’ve been sympathetic to the original designs and worked to enhance the house rather than fight it. This has allowed us to insert a new floor level into the house and discreetly double the number of rooms.”

The redesigned Centennial Park estate both reinvents current interior trends and embodies sustainable architectural practices. Though it strays away from the commonality of open plan living, with kitchen, living and dining areas separated, the spaces are framed and interconnected by a pattern of door openings that lead to a newly created family room. Here, double glass walls enable light to be pulled inside, creating the feel of a resort-like, internal courtyard.

Just as careful attention was paid to the way indoor spaces connect with the outdoors, the house’s landscape and gardens give a proper nod to biodiversity and the local environment. Visual connections are made to the neighbouring Centennial Parklands through indigenous flora and native grass, also assisting in the reduction of water use.

Truly the best of both worlds, the Centennial Park estate captures both the beauty and history of the Edwardian period, whilst boasting 21st century design and comfort.

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