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Accent Wall with Applied Box Moulding

Applied box moulding laid out and finished in a deep green, against crisp white baseboard.

Deep green accent wall with applied box moulding and crisp white baseboard in a Phoenix home

The challenge

A large flat wall with nothing to hold the eye. The brief was to give the room architecture rather than just colour.

Applied moulding is a layout problem before it is a paint problem. Uneven spacing or a mis-set reveal reads immediately from across the room.

Scope of work

  • Box moulding layout and installation
  • Deep green finish across wall and moulding
  • Baseboard finished in crisp white for contrast
  • Filling, caulking and sanding to a seamless finish

Surface preparation

  • Layout set out on the wall and checked against the room's sightlines and existing openings before anything was fixed.
  • Moulding fixed, nail holes filled, mitres and wall joints caulked so the frames read as part of the wall rather than as applied trim.
  • Sanded flush, then primed so the deep colour would lay evenly over both drywall and moulding.

Coating and finish system

  • Deep green applied across wall and moulding in the same sheen so the panels read as one surface with relief.
  • Baseboard finished in a crisp white to give the wall a defined base line.

Scheduling considerations

Run as a single-room project inside an occupied home, with the work zone contained and cleaned down daily.

The result

A wall with real depth and shadow lines, with no visible fixings or caulk lines under the finish.

The white baseboard keeps the deep colour from feeling heavy at floor level.

Project photography

Curved bathroom wall in the same home finished in warm terracotta beside a glass block window

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