Is this still classed as a picture rail?

Made_Without

Barneysmom wrote: »

I hope it all goes through for you

By the time you've done all your buying and moved in and everything you might not have time to think about them for a while, maybe live with them for a bit and see if you can put up with them?
I like - them I bet in the right colour and using the right paint they'd look really good.

So true! It will all stay as is for a fair while while I try to get over the shock of all the things that need to be paid for as course of the buying process, but I am enjoying planning and dreaming of how I can make it ... one day

I hope to receive the mortgage papers tomorrow / Tuesday so I can instruct the surveyor

C*F

Penny_Farthing_2

I may be being a bit thick but why would you feel the need to dust them? Unless you or your visitors are enormously tall, no one will know if there's dust up there for a good 6 months at a time. Soooo, every 6 months get a feather duster and scoot round the rail with it - 5 minutes and job done-much cheaper than ripping them out, especially as they may be set into the brickwork a bit.

The idea of dusting the tops of doors also weirds me out.

ailuro2

It will be much easier to paper if you leave them in place - not so high and less paper needed - and tbh I quite like them, and from the pic they can obviously be used as a picture rail too - you don't HAVE to put plates on them, do you?

Well not till you've retired anyway...;)


Also it gives you a bit more scope with tone of colour you choose, as you can have a lot of white on the roof and the top part of the wall then go darker under the picture rail without losing too much light in the room.;)

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Hi,

Penny_Farthing wrote: »

The idea of dusting the tops of doors also weirds me out.

so, the dust just sits there, well I'm a home alone, and I always do tops of doors,

wallbash

Now you have me worried , Yes I would ( and do ) dust/clean even the parts which you can not easily see.

( memo .... I must get a life)

Errata

It's a plate rail. Very often they were fixed to the wall before the wall was plastered so removing them could leave a different 'depth' of plaster above and below. Which = having all the walls skimmed.