Custom Chair Rail Molding Ideas
Also see:This page contains some ideas for building custom chair rails to simulate historic profiles and create new ones. These moldings are built using one–piece baseboards and other commonly available molding profiles.
Stacked Chair Rail
This custom chair rail is easy to build by stacking a small, milled chair profile on top of a backer board or one–piece baseboards.
Combination Chair Rail
This chair rail is built using a backer board, two pieces of stop bead and 3 pieces of half–round molding. Nail the backer board to the wall framing and then assemble the stop bead and half–round molding using wood glue and nails.
Back Band Chair Rail
This custom chair rail can be built using a 1x4 or smaller finished lumber, 2 pieces of back band along the edges and half–round molding down the center.
Reed Chair Rail
This chair rail is built using reed molding and 2 pieces of panel molding along the edges.
Ledge Chair Rail
This design can be installed flat against the wall as a chair rail or set out to cap wood wainscoting in a dining room or ceramic tile in a bathroom. A wider bullnose bead molding will probably be needed when covering thick materials. Install the baseboard first and then add the bead and cove moldings.
Plate Rail
This is similar to the design above with a groove cut along the top of the bead molding to serve as as stop for displaying decorative plates and similar tchotchkes. This chair rail design can also be built using the more commonly available profiles used in the ledge type wainscot cap above.
