Artworks Victorian Green Collection

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This is not a colour range, it is a component set. Victorian Green as a field tile, and then every moulding and cornice needed to build a proper tiled dado in the same glaze — cornice, egg-and-dart, sigma, astragal and plain moulding. Having the whole set in one colour is what makes a restoration possible. Matching a moulding to a field tile across two different ranges almost never works; the glazes sit differently and the difference shows in daylight. What the pieces do The field tile covers the area. The astragal and sigma mouldings are narrow profiles used as bands and edges. The egg-and-dart is the decorative band, traditionally at the top of a dado. The plain cornice caps the whole thing and throws a shadow line. Used together they turn a tiled wall into a piece of joinery. Where a strong green belongs Victorian Green is a committed colour and it is at its best in rooms that can take it: an entrance hall, a boot room, a downstairs cloakroom, the back of a scullery kitchen. It is a poor choice for a whole bathroom and an excellent one for a dado in that same bathroom. Count the mouldings before ordering Mouldings are sold by the piece and it is easy to under-order. Measure the full run of the band and the cornice, including returns into reveals and around corners, and add corner pieces where the profile turns. Running short of an egg-and-dart halfway through a hallway is the most common and most avoidable problem with this kind of scheme. Order a sample of the glaze Greens shift substantially between daylight and lamplight. Order a free cut sample and look at it against your paint, your woodwork and your floor before committing to a whole hallway. Explore more: Victorian wall tiles · Artworks range · green tiles