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Matching trim profiles room to room

Base, casing, and crown combinations that read as one design.

March 31, 20265 min readDeWitt Lumber

Trim is the quietest way a house tells you whether it was designed or assembled. A small, consistent set of profiles beats a different look in every room.

Pick three profiles and stop

One baseboard, one casing, one crown, used everywhere. Vary the scale between rooms if you must, but keep the profile family the same so transitions through a doorway do not fight.

Get the proportions right

As a starting point, baseboard is taller than casing is wide, and crown is sized to ceiling height. Eight-foot ceilings rarely carry a heavy crown well; nine feet and up can.

See it full size

Profiles look nearly identical in a catalog and completely different on a wall. Our selection centers have full-length samples so you can hold two casings side by side before you commit the whole house.

Talk it through with us

Bring your plans, sketches, or photos to any of our four Central Michigan yards. We will walk the options with you, pull real samples, and put together a material list you can build from. Estimating is free for any project.

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