New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork

by Jay Silber

In this new, expanded edition of Jay Silber's ground-breaking first book, The New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork focuses on the aesthetic uses of architectural trimwork. There are plenty of books that tell the reader how to install trim around windows and doors, but few that also explain how architectural trim can enhance a room's aesthetic appeal. Silber shows readers even more ideas on how to choose and use a wide variety of moldings, trim, and design concepts to transform the all-too-common sterile, open floor plan into a warm, inviting, richly textured home. This new edition of Trimwork provides ideas for how to decorate homes with trim and wall panels so that walls, passageways, and stairways can radiate the warmth, character, and beauty of the well-trimmed homes of eras gone by.

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Look, I don't usually cry at books, and New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork got me anyway, on a train, in front of strangers. Silber, Jay writes a friendship between two old guys that feels so lived-in, with the bickering, the shared silence, the "you want the last pickle?" kind of love, that the ending knocked the wind out of me. A couple of the flashbacks drag. Perfect for anybody who misses somebody. Not for readers looking for something light.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jay Silber writes New Decorating with Architectural Trimwork with an unyielding edge, showing that when consensus is forced, dissent is the only honest position left to take.

[Michael Heath-Caldwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book on architectural detailing