Nice use of head/crown mold at French doors with equal sidelights. Smaller casings at adjoining wall openings emphasize the hierarchy in the elements of style (the large door wears the crown), and this is a nice way to set off a single element, while controlling costs elsewhere, all while creating a very well done assembly. (Whether I "like" this or not is beside my point, it's good use and execution, if budgeted statements are important, or one just wishes to set up contrasting elements of style).
Thickened wall, cased French doors with faux box beams in ceiling with tongue and groove panels between the boxed beams. Beyond all of that, interior 2 way cased windows with crown/head jambs and matching built in really tie all of this together.
Shallow tray ceiling with box beams and ship-lap between.
Very subtle, clean cased opening is reflected in the 3 way cased window with sill and apron beyond. Remove the sill/apron, and the window becomes a 4 way cased opening.
Super subtle trays (I use this as one of my go to's, and these might be nice in beds and baths) lend an understated elegance to these spaces, while costing next to nothing to accomplish, while the rectilinear cased openings echo nicely and frame 3 spaces.
Offset ceiling heights (possibly a drop ceiling next to a higher ceiling; easy to do in the right space), crown molds, and a tray in the lower ceiling at the dining area turn this great room into a visual success. The transoms over the divided light widows lend to the overall traditional look.
Beam boxed ceiling with intermediate ceiling panels and wainscoting below make this sitting room.
Super sized cased opening (panelized), in thickened wall, separates an otherwise very large flat ceiling expanse. I think this use of an element of style needs a support of other elements to complete the motif. At a minimum, ceiling crown mold at the plate line would be nice, and even better would be the use of ceiling trays or coffers to break up the flat expanse.
Fully cased/transom opening to kitchen with fully cased/transom portal entry.
"The Works" Fully adorned portal with unified architectural wood elements that form a very nice head jamb, that decorates a ceiling coffer above, with panelized wainscot below.
Transom windows over the French doors set the look and invite to the outdoor living area.
Single head jamb (1 way), at the entry to this bed-alcove compliment the motif, along with fully cased transom windows to the left.
Nice, simple casings at portals between entry and stairwell, and great space beyond, nicely match the door casing to an adjoining space.
Very strong use of a cased opening to "frame" the space/elements beyond this portal. This element has it all: Beaded/Fluted casing, crown molds at the spring lines, Keystone in the arch apex, penalized jambs and plinth column bases really set up this portal.
The use of "beaded" door casing and crowns at the spring lines, along with a single "Keystone" in the head of this arched passage create a very nice element of style that is braced and supported by the use of waist high wainscoting on both sides of this portal.
Restrained, large panels over arched, cased openings. Nice use of an element, within an element, without going over the top. And an un-adorned ceiling tray finishes off the understated use of elements of style, without breaking the bank.
3 way Panelized Cased Openings over elliptical arches, with crowns at the "spring lines" of the arch, and large crown mold at the "plate lines" to unify the the use of the elements of style.
Large, 3 way cased opening @ a lovely lazy arch
Box beams in ceiling tray. Crown mold topping built-ins.
Another that could be similar to ours, at least in this early planning stage.
Q