See trim and wall colour combinations before you buy

A ready-made room with more than 180 of our baseboard, casing and crown profiles built in. Put any three together, then change the wall colour, the trim finish, the floor and the light until the room looks right. It is a sample room rather than a photo of yours, so use it to choose a look, then take the part numbers to a showroom.

  • Baseboard, casing and crown
  • 7 wall colours
  • 5 paint colours for trim
  • 6 stain-grade woods
  • 4 floors
  • Daylight or evening
  • 3 crown spring angles
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Please note

Illustration only. Colours, textures and lighting are approximate and will differ from the finished product.

Wood is natural, so grain and colour vary from piece to piece. Sizes follow our catalogue dimensions, and this is not a measuring tool or a quote. Please order a sample and confirm the part number before ordering.

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How to use the Room Visualizer

  1. Pick a profile for each slot

    Use the Baseboard, Casing and Crown tabs. Search by part number or name, or scroll the list. Switch a slot off to see the room without it, and flip a profile if you want it facing the other way.

  2. Set the room

    The Room tab changes the wall colour, the trim finish, the floor and the light. Trim can be painted, including the same colour as the wall, or shown as stain-grade wood.

  3. Look closer

    The view buttons jump to the door, the window, the crown and the base corner. Drag to look around, or open full screen.

  4. Keep it

    Copy link to this room saves the exact combination, so you can send it to a contractor or open it again later. View product takes you to the part in our shop.

The Room Visualizer Room tab open beside a sage green room, showing wall colour swatches, paint and wood trim finishes, floor and light options
The Room tab: wall colour, trim finish in paint or stain-grade wood, floor and light.

Wall and trim colour combinations

Colour changes how a profile reads more than most people expect. The same casing can look crisp, soft or almost invisible depending on the paint around it. Four starting points, each one opens in the room above.

Sample room with sage green walls and bright white baseboard, window casing, door casing and crown

White trim on a coloured wall

Sage walls, Bright white trim

The classic. White against a mid-tone wall makes every edge and bead of the profile show, which is where a detailed profile earns its place.

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Sample room with greige walls and cream painted trim

Tone on tone

Greige walls, Cream trim

Low contrast and warm. The trim no longer stands out as a separate colour, so the profile is carried by its shadows. A quieter look that suits traditional rooms.

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Sample room with mist blue walls and trim painted the same blue, the profiles showing only through their shadows

Trim the same colour as the wall

Mist blue walls, trim to match

Painting trim and wall one colour reads calm and modern. With no colour change, the profile only shows through its shadows, so choose one with real depth. A flat casing will almost disappear.

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Sample room with navy walls and white trim outlining the window, door, floor and ceiling

Dark walls, white trim

Navy walls, Primed white trim

The strongest contrast. The trim becomes an outline drawn around the room, so the proportions of base, casing and crown matter more than usual.

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The same sage green room with bright white trim shown side by side in daylight and in evening light
The same room in daylight and in evening light. Look at the door and the window casing.

Check every combination in evening light too. Warm evening light pulls white trim towards cream, and that is the most common surprise once a room is painted. The light switch on the Room tab shows the difference in a second.

Sample room with red oak baseboard, door casing and crown against a warm white wall
Coronado base, casing and crown shown in red oak.

Stain-grade wood trim

The Room tab also shows trim as stain-grade wood with a clear finish: red oak, knotty alder, maple, poplar, solid pine or Douglas fir.

Wood grain and colour vary from piece to piece, and not every profile is made in every species, so check the product page or ask a showroom before you order.

Try Coronado in red oak

Deciding whether crown should match the wall or the ceiling? Our answer is in should crown moulding be painted the same colour as the ceiling.

Start from a matched set

Many of our profiles come in families that share a name across baseboard and casing, which makes them a natural place to start. Open any set in the room, then change one piece at a time.

Door and room corner in the Room Visualizer with Coronado baseboard MC618, casing MC380 and crown MC104
Coronado in the room: MC618 base, MC380 casing and MC104 crown.

Coronado

Base, casing and crown

Base
MC618, 9/16" x 5-1/4"
Casing
MC380, 3/4" x 5-1/2"
Crown
MC104, 7/8" x 6-9/16"

Try Coronado

Georgian

Base
MC219, 9/16" x 5-1/4"
Casing
MC122, 11/16" x 3-9/16"

Try Georgian

Palo Alto

Base
MC221, 5/8" x 6"
Casing
MC220, 3/4" x 3-1/2"

Try Palo Alto

Santa Fe

Base
MC009, 9/16" x 5-7/16"
Casing
MC008, 11/16" x 2-7/16"

Try Santa Fe

Carolina

Base
MC84, 5/8" x 6"
Casing
MC388, 11/16" x 2-1/2"

Try Carolina

Riviera

Base
MC658, 9/16" x 5-1/4"
Casing
MC385, 11/16" x 2-1/2"

Try Riviera

Victorian

Base
MC027, 9/16" x 3-7/8"
Casing
MC037, 3/4" x 2-1/2"

Try Victorian

Round Edge

Base
MC508, 1/2" x 4-1/2"
Casing
CS003, 3/4" x 4-1/4"

Try Round Edge

Beaded

Base
MC223, 9/16" x 3-7/16"
Casing
MC001, 11/16" x 3-7/16"

Try Beaded

Sizes are shown as each product lists them. In almost every pair we stock, the baseboard stands taller than the casing is wide, which keeps the floor line looking anchored. For how the styles differ, see interior trim styles explained.

Crown moulding ideas

Crown is the piece people most often get the wrong size, because it is judged from the floor, eight or nine feet away. The usual starting point is to size crown to the ceiling: roughly 3 to 5 inches for an eight foot ceiling, 5 to 7 inches for nine feet, and more for taller rooms.

Crown is also made to sit at a set angle between wall and ceiling, called the spring angle. It is commonly 38, 45 or 52 degrees, and the angle changes how much of the crown lands on the ceiling and how much on the wall. The visualizer lets you switch between the three, which is easier than describing it.

The Coronado family comes in three crown sizes, which makes it a clean way to see the difference size makes in the same room.

Coronado crown moulding MC610, 4-1/4
MC610, 4-1/4"
Coronado crown moulding MC104, 6-9/16
MC104, 6-9/16"
Coronado crown moulding MC107, 8
MC107, 8"

MC610, 4-1/4" MC104, 6-9/16" MC107, 8"

Browse all crown moulding, or read the complete guide to crown.

Door and window trim ideas

The Door and Window views are the quickest way to judge casing, because casing is seen close up and at eye level, unlike crown. Try the same casing against two or three baseboards: a casing that looks right on its own can look thin next to a tall base, or heavy next to a short one.

If you are trimming windows, our window trim guide explains the stool, apron, stop and backband that go with the casing, and understanding door casings covers the door side.

Window with painted casing on a greige wall, with baseboard and crown meeting at the room corner
The window wall with the room's starting set: MC122 casing, MC219 base and MC285 crown.

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The room shows the look. The 3D view shows the profile.

We added a 3D view and a room to our site for one reason: trim is easier to choose when you can see it. A small photo or a line drawing rarely shows how a profile will look once it is on the wall. Here you can turn a profile in 3D, then see it in a room beside a base, casing and crown, before you buy anything.

Product pages with a 3D view let you turn the profile itself, so you can see its exact shape, depth and edges. Use the room to choose a look, then the 3D view on the product page to check the detail of the piece you are about to order.

What the Room Visualizer is, and is not

  • A sample room with our real profiles in it, not a photo of your room.
  • An illustration. Colours, textures and lighting are approximate, and wood grain and colour vary from piece to piece.
  • Sized from our catalogue dimensions, but not a measuring tool or a quote.
  • A place to choose. Order a sample and confirm the part number before you order.

Common questions

Can I upload a photo of my own room?

No. The Room Visualizer is a ready-made room, built so every profile shows at its catalogue size in a consistent setting. To see how a choice will work in your house, copy the link to your room and bring it to a showroom with a photo or two of the space.

Which profiles are in it?

More than 180 of our baseboard, casing and crown profiles. Other pieces, such as backband, chair rail and wainscoting, are not in the room. See how those fit together in our interior trim anatomy guide.

Why does a colour look different from a paint chip?

Screens, settings and lighting all shift colour, and the room is an illustration rather than a colour match. Use it to compare combinations against each other, then confirm the final colours on a painted sample in your own light.

Can I share what I made?

Yes. Copy link to this room saves the three profiles, the wall colour, the trim finish, the floor and the light. Anyone who opens the link sees the same room.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes, in a recent version of Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox. Drag to look around and pinch to move. On a small screen, full screen gives the room the most space.

How do I order what I picked?

Note the three part numbers, or copy the link. View product opens each one so you can request a quote, and the linear footage calculator works out how much you need.

Found a combination you like?

Bring the part numbers, or the link to your room, to any of our four Northern California showrooms in Concord, Santa Clara, South San Francisco and Sacramento. We will show you the real pieces side by side, and many profiles are available as a 4 inch sample to take home. If nothing in stock matches your house, custom milling takes two weeks.

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