Cool ways to display moulding samples?

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framinzfun

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I am thinking of redoing the wood moulding sample wall... I'm tired of the old gray carpet. My dilemma is that the velcro really loves the carpet, and it's easy to rehang samples, but...
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BORING. Does anybody have any neat ideas for displaying samples?
 
Mine are in boxes under my work benches.

My first shop had painted pegboard with golf tees.

THAT was classy.
 
Some thing I have been looking at. Cut the moulding 90 deg at one end 45 at the other, Long lengths. At the 90 deg end screw in a hook. and hang from a rail. If you have two of each you can still make the angle to lay upon the art when designing.
 
I've run into three stores now that have metal panels and magnet strips on the samples.

One went so far as to drill out a little hole and embed rare-earth magnets.... times 1,500....

I love the peal and stick...

The nice part about magnets is that you can push a whole row back into place... or out of place... :D
 
I have gone from little wood blocks cut from one by two clear pine, then cut in half and attached to the wall with screws. The corner samples sat on these. We painted them the same color as the wall. I have also tried Ron's method of pegboard and golf tees. Velcro is by far the best method. We are now using the hook side on the samples, then a long strip of loop on the wall, running from floor to ceiling. It works great, looks good, inexpensive, and easy to install.

John
 
one of the neatest presentations of moldings I ever saw--and I am sorry I don't remember where,---maybe in a magazine or something--anyway---
Instead of neat(ha ha ours are never staight!) straight rows, this shop had designed a--well I guess the best way to describe it is like a star burst!! They were radiating from a centerpoint=absolutly eye catching!

Elsa
 
In my Last-Shop-That-Actually-Had-Samples-On-The-Wall, I used JRB's strips of loop on the wall system and was very pleased with the ease and the nice, straight rows of samples. As new boxes of samples came in, I could just add more Velcro strips - stopping just short of covering the windows.

I was a bit concerned about the loop material "wearing out" or falling off the walls. Since I moved again in four years, wearing out was not a problem. And when I tried to remove the strips from the walls (as a courtesy to the next tenant) huge strips of wallboard came with them.

As far as I know, the Velcro strips are still on the wall.
 
My walls carpeted with charcoal grey carpet. But I got bored with the straight line approach so the samples hang diagonally. Tried to set up the colors rainbow-ish, gold across the top rows, then silver, then wood tones.

Upside for me is that now that I like the display I put the samples back onto the wall! No more stacks of moulding all over the design counter!

In the framing news newsletter I saw that a fellow grumbler did their wall the same (and before me, so I must have copied you!) In another mag I saw the wall designed in a wave, looked really cool!

Drawback, you got to buy a lot of velcro to put on the back corners to provide extra support for the samples. (Big drawback, eh?
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Originally concept was drawers that pull out of the space below the design counter. These drawers are the same height as my backup moulding wall. They lift in and out and can be changed out to display different mouldings.
 
I have a mouldiing rep that has a company that has the mouldings cut in different sizes of corner samples and places them in a puzzle looking design. I can't remember the company, I think it was Turner, but it really made a beautiful display and I thought of maybe doing something like that.

I just haven't had the time to mess with it.

Let me ask this, are most of your counter tops carpet or formica or tile.

I am thinking of tiling mine and want to know if anybody has thiers done like that? And how you like it.
I like the look.

By the way, My moulding samples are on the wall on black carpet. It really sets the samples off very well. And they stay really well.


Jennifer :D
 
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