Wall divisions: wainscoting and chair rails

A wall divided into two sections, upper and lower. The lower half, about one meter high, is a dark wooden wainscoting or dark paint, while the upper half is a lighter painted surface or wallpaper, separated by a wooden dado rail in the middle. This horizontal division runs through the entire space, aligning with door frames when encountering doors and windows. Avoid: making the wall a single color up to the ceiling, having the dado rail height arbitrary and not aligned with door frames, using contemporary seamless finishes, or having the color contrast between the upper and lower sections be too weak to show the division.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面分成上下兩段的牆。下半段約一公尺高是深色的木牆裙或深色漆,上半段是較淺的漆面或壁紙,中間用一道木質的腰線分開。這道水平分割貫穿整個空間,遇到門窗時與門框對齊。避免:把牆做成單一顏色到頂、腰線的高度隨意不對齊門框、使用當代的無收邊做法、讓上下兩段的色彩對比太弱看不出分割。