*sucks air through teeth* Dado rails done wrongly can look terrible. Most are done wrongly.
Can't go wrong with painted dado's though!
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Can't go wrong with painted dado's though!
That's just how it looked in the second picture albeit both above and below were shades of grey. To be honest the father in law was impressed and understood the idea was to get something that looked consummate and sympathetic with the age of the property but my other half and sister in law didn't really get the idea so the dado ended up as a compromise.
Thankfully the new dado didn't look like the first picture , I'd be seriously embarrassed if it did. The architraves have a wide chamfer so I made a dado with a similar chamfer top and bottom that was much more in keeping than any off the shelf stuff.
Oh and in the quote I wrote "repainted" but for some reason the autocorrect changed it to "recounted" .
Thankfully the new dado didn't look like the first picture , I'd be seriously embarrassed if it did. The architraves have a wide chamfer so I made a dado with a similar chamfer top and bottom that was much more in keeping than any off the shelf stuff.
Oh and in the quote I wrote "repainted" but for some reason the autocorrect changed it to "recounted" .
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