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2. Threshold (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   A worn-out wooden threshold. A threshold is the sill of a door. Some cultures attach special symbolism to a threshold. It is called a door saddle in New England. [citation needed] Door thresholds cover the gap between the floor and the door frame, helping to prevent any water leaks, insects or draughts from entering through the opening.

3. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Conrad Totman argues that deforestation was a factor in the style changes, including the change from panelled wooden sliding doors to the lightweight covered-frame shoji and fusuma. [ 100 ] A core part of the style was the shoin ("library" or "study"), a room with a desk built into an alcove containing a shoji window, in a monastic style; [ 94 ...

4. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim. [1] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [ 2 ] which was associated mostly to the Carpenter Gothic style. [ 3 ]

5. Crown molding - Wikipedia

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   A compound crown molding built up out of several individual trim elements Decorative pilaster of natural cherry hardwood topped with crown molding Crown molding may be a complex build-up of multiple trim elements, in this case built-out slightly above a window with short 90-degree returns The relief on this short 90-degree return of crown molding was back-cut with a coping saw

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7. Molding (decorative) - Wikipedia

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   Casing: Finish trim around the sides of a door or window opening covering the gap between finished wall and the jam or frame it is attached to. Cartouche (in French) escutcheon : Framed panel in the form of a scroll with an inscribed centre, or surrounded by compound mouldings decorated with floral motifs