I just love looking at this old, dirty cast iron manifold. The house is from 1857 but the pipes (which along the ceiling are wrapped in horse hair) are most likely from 1895. The boiler obviously is newer.
We're renovating our guest room. One of the things we're doing is putting wainscoting in to match wainscoting that already exists elsewhere in the house.
We have a problem that we knew would be a problem but have deferred thinking about until now because we have to. The window slopes downward and we don't have a lot of room to do any kind of ornamentation under it that's consistent with the walls adjacent. Note the baseboard is going to be raised to the point where the squiggly line is penciled in on the trim, so the bottom of the trim won't be an issue but we'll also have even less space to work with.
How do we trick the eye so it's not drawn to the drop? Do we just completely fill in this space so the window trim continues to the baseboard? Do we use just the quarter round to at least make it somewhat match the wainscoting? Do we just put a plant or something in front of it and call it a day?
Advice needed please.
I love our 169 year old Victorian and I love wainscoting. I'm considering adding wainscoting to the front hall (I have a home business and this part is client-facing, hence the conference room in the first two pics). Pics 1 and 3 are real images of the space (although Pic 1 has been edited to remove a couple signs for my business). Pics 2 and 4 are AI-generated. The AI images are a bit messed up because the AI took it upon itself to improve our existing trimwork (which would not be part of the plan) and the wainscoting is inconsistent between the two angles. But, it was just to give me a general sense of what might be possible.
The existing baseboard and door trim is oak (the crown molding is, I believe, plaster). In an ideal world, I'd like to remove all the lead paint and expose the oak, but that's never going to happen (especially due to the more detailed areas of the trim), so the wainscoting would probably be MDF and so we'd be committing to keeping it painted forever.
Thoughts? Comments? Words of caution? Could this look nice or is it a bit gaudy? Is it too much white? Would this complement the existing design or am I just gilding the lily?
EDIT: OK, it seems the opinion is overwhelmingly DON'T add the wainscoting! Even though it's a beautiful hallway, I do want to punch it up a bit. Maybe I'll revisit the idea of stripping the baseboard and trim (and large oak entry doors!) to restore the original oak. I just think I'm going to have a heck of a time of it. We haven't tested it but believe the paint is likely lead and even if it's not, it'll still be a bear of a project. We do know that it's quality oak underneath because in one of the adjacent rooms they never painted the trim and I think it's likely the same as what's in the hallway. Also, in our guest room, we ARE putting in wainscoting (although only 48" high against a 10' wall), so if I want to be around it, I can hang out in there.
Thank you everyone for your kind and helpful comments!
So, my parish offers intinction (i.e. administering both species at the same time by dipping the host into the precious blood before placing it on the communicant's tongue) as a means of receiving communion. I never really thought much about it (and only recently learned, through this subreddit, the word intinction), but this, it seems to me, is by far the best way to receive communion. It allows the Minister(s) to distribute communion in both species, while avoiding some of the drawbacks of distributing the precious blood by chalice, such as:
Using chalices either extends the time it takes to administer communion or encourages the use of EMHCs to combat this;
Using chalices, and allowing every parishioner to handle one, greatly increases the risk of spills of the precious blood; and
When using chalices, some portion of the parishioners will choose not to receive, when they otherwise would have, because they don't want to share the chalice with all the other parishioners.
I would say a majority of the parishioners in my parish choose to receive this way. I think it should be an encouraged practice (honestly, I think it should be the default way). Yet, I don't think I've ever been to another parish that distributes holy communion in this way.
Why is intinction such a seemingly uncommon practice? Is there some drawback I'm not understanding? How can I be the change I want to see?