The best way to paint a wall with a chair rail is on the top.
I'm Hi.I'm going to put a chair rail in my dining room.I would like to paint the walls in 2 different colors.Does the wall paper go on top of the chair rail or on the bottom?
I ordered tan and red chairs for the dining room.The design is subdued.I need a rug and window treatments.I would love for the painter to paint the dining room as long as he is here.I don't know what I will pick for the rug, but I know it will be red, gold, green, and brown.I want my dining room to have some "heft" to compete with the heaviness of the raised panelling in my hallway.I was thinking of a combo of BM cork and tapestry gold.I would paint my hallway tan.The dining room is going to be painted dark red or burgundy by my husband.This is a wallpaper that I would consider.I want stripes in my window treatments.Suggestions or pictures would be very helpful.
"In olden days a glimpse of stocking was seen as shocking, but now, G*d knows, anything goes..."
Cole Porter's business was to be attentive to all the latest fads and foibles of the fashionable set, and these days, it is the same as with the question of chair.People remind me that there are no rules.
Please.Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for ignoring the rules, even if a lot of people don't bother to learn them.If you know how to break a rule, you can use it to your advantage, but first you have to know the rules.Otherwise, it's meaningless.What's the point of decorating without rules?
We live in a free country, so people can put the dark color below the chair rail if they want, but doing it that way is a fairly recent development, dating not much further back than the time Madonna wore her bra on top of her sweater.That's what I think of when someone proclaims there are no rules.
It took off after someone on one of the early cable decorating shows did it that way.If you take the time to do any research about the rules, it will be simple and common sense.
The upper walls were the place where people would see the expensive paint because it was below the eye level.
The chair rail was painted white because it was cheap and could be refreshed easily.
That's the logic behind the traditional dark-above-light-below color distribution.Even if the specific reasons for that distribution no longer apply, the look still seems right in a traditional decor.If a designer ignores historical precedent for one reason or another, that's one thing, but if he or she isn't aware of it, I would start to worry.It would be a red flag if I didn't know that.I met a person at a showhouse who referred to a mess of a Venetian plaster wall as having a lovely faux-pas finish.It was the funniest thing I heard in a week.
I don't like doing 2 colors with the chair rail.Here's what I did.I painted my walls and ceiling different colors.I was glad I stepped outside the box on this one.The room is my favorite in the house.I decided to go with the lighter color on the walls because of my gut feeling.I think the 2 golds you chose would work well.
We had a darker color below the chair rail and a lighter color on top.I thought it was pretty.
When I convert my home to a game room with an English Pub decor, I will include chair rails in my garage.The area above the rail was the light one to open up the top of the room if you did 2 tones.There is a patterned paper above.The room is beautiful as well.That's right.
I've seen walls done in either dark or light.I think it depends on the size of the room and the trim color.
That's a great question!It seems to me that neither way is wrong.My sister-in-law has the most beautifully decorated house of anyone I know, and she has red above and cream below.A friend of mine who is an interior designer told me that the darker color needs to go below.Something about the weight.
If you have confidence in your choice, it will look great.
White is very traditional if you are doing picture frame moulding on the bottom.
I don't think it's a personal preference, but I think darker colors should be on the bottom.It looks like the house is going to fall over if it is opposite.One of the photos has the wainscotting painted in white.
My dining room has chair rails.There is a darker color on the bottom.The river rock is actually the bottom.I like the look of it, but I don't know if it's right or wrong.
He would reply with pictures from the White House, where he has shown us that dark is on top in some rooms.
I think it's a matter of preference.Both of them are in our home.There is a white chair rail and picture frame on the bottom of the DR.I like it.The playroom has a color on the bottom and a white chair rail.In that room, we were thinking of little hands and keeping the walls clean.That's right.
It depends on the combo that you choose.Is it possible to get an idea of what you do and don't like?I think I would start there.If you have Paint, you can take a picture of the room and do a mock up.Good luck!
The Drawing Room at Lansdowne House in London, designed by Robert Adam, looks just as striking in that stair hall as it does in the room that inspired it.People used to be afraid of color.
When I said that it's important to know how to break the rules, I was talking about rooms like this.History has all the answers.We have to look them up.
Thank you for all of your help.I don't know which way I will go.I want the dining room to feel balanced with the raised panelling I am putting in my hallway.I will eventually put wallpaper in place of the darker color so it is just a place holder for now.