Have you guys been seeing all of those cool molding walls all over Instagram? When our client in Colonia, New Jersey asked us to do some sort of molding treatment in her dining room in black, I immediately started researching some modern treatments. During my search, I came across this angular, modern design. I presented it to her, she loved it and it was off to the races! There are always different ways to accomplish a design when you are building. Here are the supplies we used:
Tools:
Paint GunNail GunArchitectural Straight Edge Tool
Architectural ScaleHand Saw (or you can use a molding cutter)
Tape Measure
Materials:
Paint
Caulk
Nails (for nail gun)
Mask
Wood Molding
The cool thing about this type of wall treatment is that there really is no wrong design, well . . . maybe there is . . . but . . . it is really hard to mess it up. We started out with sketching a design based off of the inspiration image we found (it has been a while since we created this wall so don’t remember where we got the inspo image from but chances are it was on Pinterest). We first measured the wall and then we used an architectural scale to scale the drawing and measure the pieces we would need. Here is a video on how to read a scale:
You can get one of these on Amazon. We definitely made adjustments as we went along and had to cut A LOT of angles.
We started out by outlining the entire wall section with moulding and then creating one main artery piece. All other pieces were placed off of this one long piece. You can use any size moulding you wish although for this particular modern design, we used 3/4” square moldings. We cut the angle by essentially placing the piece of moulding in the place we wanted up against the main artery piece and then used a straight edge tool to mark out where the molding would hit the artery piece. This ensured that would cut at the right angle.
We used our Wagner paint gun to spray the wall and give it a consistent finish. We used Behr Marquee paint in the color Night Club in a matte finish. You will have to put some paper up and tape off other walls and ceiling so that you don’t get paint on the other planes when spraying.
Voila! I think this came out pretty darn nice and best of all . . . the client loved it!
