Door Trim Profile Selection From Colonial to Craftsman Style
Door Trim Profile Selection From Colonial to Craftsman Style Why Door Trim Quietly Defines a Room Door trim, also called door casing, is one of those architectural elements that most people stop noticing the moment they cross a threshold. That invisibility is precisely the source of its power. Casing is the visual frame that separates an opening from the surrounding wall, and like the frame around a painting, the wrong choice fights the subject while the right choice disappears into the experience. A Craftsman bungalow with skinny clamshell trim looks vaguely off in a way most homeowners cannot articulate, and a mid-century ranch dressed up in heavy fluted Colonial casing feels equally wrong. The National Association of Home Builders tracks interior trim as a category of remodeling spend that has grown faster than the overall remodeling market for nearly a decade, driven partly by the resurgence of period-correct restorations and partly by the influence of social media on mill...
