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dado rail

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chair rail
A horizontal strip usually of wood, affixed to a plaster wall at a height which prevents the backs of chairs from damaging the wall surface.


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Sometimes, they involve someone with floppy cuffs trying to convince a Northern family that their house will look spiffing if they hang a stuffed mongoose from the dado rail.
Features include quarry tiled and solid wood floors, coving, dado rails and radiator covers.
I know a lot of people who, when they reach our age, tend to go for that traditional style of a dado rail in the living room with striped paper beneath and a plain one above.
 
 
 
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