>>2974858
If you really wanted to do it you could. Everything besides the really curvy part is just straight miter cuts. The really curvy part could be traced with one of those contour gauges to get the inner outline and then your wood stock bandsawed to fit, then approximate an outer curve that looks decent and matches up to the other trim. Then grind a card scraper to match the profile of your existing trim and scrape the new trim in.

So yeah it's possible, will anyone take t the time to actually do that? Depends entirely on how much you are willing to pay them.

I think that alot of poor people wound up with creaky old rich people houses in the 1960s-2000s and then looked at like their next house with cheap ikea decor and just shit their pants at the idea of something that isn't cheap and cheerful 90 degree angles.
yeah you couldn't afford that shit 70 years ago either I'm sorry but that's reality.

Houses aren't being built for white people. They're being built for the migrants that are being brought in to replace them. Appearance and quality does not matter.

Yeah, quality isn't dead. It's just skewed. You can cut trim with a miter saw and look like a hero for lining up 45* cuts, because the average person can't do it.

It was the same way back then, but instead of being a guy with a miter saw and a garage, you were an extremely specialized finish carpenter, who was feeding his family with very specific work. It still exists today, but you can imagine how expensive the labor would be, due to 99% of people being satisfied with a Home Depot miter saw, and some guy they hire on {whatever}.

Fine furniture, craftsman homes, all still exist. In fact, there are more craftspeople than any other time in history. Same goes for painters, musicians, etc.

This looks like it was partially carved by hand

>>2974875
you sound like faggot from reddit because youre full of shit

>>2974883
>you sound like faggot

Opinion discarded.

>>2974858
who stops you, faggot?
oh right, it's easier to bitch about it online

>>2974858
as a carpenter, this picture gives me epilepsy

>>2974858
>Craftsmanship is dead
for you

>>2974883
hmmm... yeah that's not an argument.

>>2974858
Meanwhile some one with skills can 3d scan that profile, stick it into CAD and have a router mill out the exact shape to fit in there.

>>2974905
>some one with skills
Someone with the skills would bash this out on site quicker without driving back and forth to their workshop and pissing about with trial and error programming while still needing hand finishing. It would only make sense if there were many exact pieces of trim to carve, which is unlikely - there are probably lots of unique pieces to fuck about with.

A proper craftsperson has the vision and just grin and bears the work because it has to get done and there aren't real shortcuts like you see on handy youtube hax to make reddit cuboid cuckboy furniture.

>>2974917
There are handheld CNC routers, it can still be done on site. Sure if you want to go back to cutting out carboard templates and then trying to route that profile by hand, go ahead.

>>2974858
Oh good, another thread where OP sounds like a 68 year old, and it's 1957. I'm totally surprised that he hasn't shown back up in any way. He's totally not a bot. This board, I swear.

The only way forward in business today is to run your own, find some sort of union or organization that has defined advancement opportunities laid out ahead of time, or to cram you head far up the asses of the top brass while they fuck you.

>>2974976
Meaning that doing quality work will only plant a target on your head. You'll be compared to the cheapest shit contractors then be expected to clean up their messes then questioned why they're faster.

Just give your ass because corporate or management is going to take it anyway.

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>>2974931
At least he posted a cute image. Although i assume he's the mediocre ragebait >>2974917.

>>2974858
usually the wall moulding stops before the door jamb what is this a partition

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>>2974858

>>2975172
Chateaux were built with huge rooms. Eventually the rooms got subdivided, because styles changed and needs changed.

>>2974858
looks like something melting into the ground in the corner
>>2975231
looks like the wall has a puckered anus

craftsmanship != taste
just because you can does not mean you should

>>2974865
>contour gage
Try a bunch of uncooked spaghetti

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The quality and craft "exists" but only the rich can afford it..or really who can bother to do it. Everyone else gets meximelt labor from run of the mill contractors and stock materials available. It's not so much harder to /diy/, you just need lots of tools to refine material. Also there is not as many "permahomes" to bother with this type of shit anymore or people who own houses don't live in them for life anymore so they don't give a fuck. The second their children get the house they either sell it or become the slumlord and turn it into a low maintenance rental unit. Think of it like Japanese house building only we have the foresight to know not to spend a ton of pointless work on it since it's just going to be demo'd or "not my problem'd" in a mear 30 years. Basically anything without bricks or a slate roof is dogshit no matter how many copes your realtor comes up with, nor how many walls you used Sherwin Williams on.

>>2974858
this shit just looks tacky and tasteless. I get that it takes skill and effort to make a complex shape like that but who the fuck cares. The novelty of living in a fancy house wears off in less than a month.

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>>2974858
Yes it is.

>>2974858
No. No one pays for it. As a Walmart/Amazon generation you should know that.

Its not dead but you cant afford it/none is willing to

Still very talented craftsman out there

>>2974875
>You can cut trim with a miter saw and look like a hero for lining up 45* cuts

You should be fitting trim with a coping saw, not a miter saw set to 45°

>>2974866
even multimillionaires often end up with shitty houses nowadays because they care more about the work being finished before their next cocktail party than about a job well done

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>>2974858
That reminds me of something I saw on an old 1920s school. It looks like the molding was plaster, but why the hell would they do plaster instead of real wood? was it cheaper/easier?

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>>2977442
same thing with this

>>2977442
Yeah it was cheaper. The moulding guy had a mould of that profile and he put plaster on it and dragged it through

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>>2977442
That is how they used to do it. All those super fancy ceilings you see in old rich people's homes? Plaster, not wood. There would often be a wooden backer but it was plain and you wouldn't see it. Even single moldings were done this way. Wooden moldings were low end. This is how far drywallers have fallen. It used to be an actual skilled trade that employed craftsman.

>>2974868
>/pol/tard can't cope with being poor
like pottery

>>2977467
>Wooden moldings were low end.
PLAIN wooden mouldings were low-end. Machine-made decorated mouldings were firmly middle-class and hand-carved wooden mouldings were still the province of the rich.

>This is how far drywallers have fallen. It used to be an actual skilled trade that employed craftsman.
Drywalling =/= plastering

>>2975231
>lightswitch nestled snuggly warm in the wayne's coat recess
comfy

>>2977487
>wayne's coat

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>>2977472
>Drywalling =/= plastering
It used to be one job. 'Drywall' was originally 'gypsum lath' and was used instead of normal lath and a scratch coat. It was one of a dozen products used to replace lath a hundred years ago. Instead of having to put in lath, then a scratch coat, and then wait for that to set up, you could nail up drywall and start on the brown coat. If you were really cheap you'd go straight to the finish coat. No waiting. Then they developed spray-on textures and other shit that can hide the fact that the wall wasn't very flat. So, no more need for any plaster coats at all. Just tape up the seams and spray it with something. Maybe knock down the spraycoat if you wanted to be fancy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1CACkgUJcU

Same thing has happened with plumbers. I remember when they are all hyped about PEX and how easy it is to install. Now PEX installers get paid much less than someone that can do copper but not enough people want copper pipes to make a living at it for a general plumbing installer. With tract developments it is all speed, speed, speed. Plastic pipes, compression fittings, solvents, and glue (for the drain lines). This is for residential stuff only of course. Real plumbers barely do residential work anymore where I live. Only custom home builders hire them.

Shit, it is getting tough to find anyone that can even work on copper pipes. I wanted to add a sink to my garage and called a few guys to come out for quotes. When I told them I didn't want them to just slap a sharkbite coupling on it and run some PEX, that I wanted actual soldered copper lines run to the sink they thought I was crazy. Two guys told me straight up they couldn't even do soldered copper. Meanwhile, my neighbor had a 'professional' PEX and sharkbite repair fail on him twice. You'd think it would be foolproof by now but they seem to make better fools every year while the old stuff just keeps on working just fine.

I remember some faggot architect on youtube talking about how old buildings had those elaborate outside walls because it was all layers made to guarantee water would never get in and nowadays it's all panels with caulking that fails in a few years and leak
>>2977467
I hate that shit, it feels like if it ever got dirty or anything at all hapened then it would be a hassle to fix

>hires 70iq goblins for 1/5th the median 1970 real terms wage
>shocked shocked that the workmanship is cheap & shitty

>>2977467
How can I get this in my house

>>2977816
Making moldings in situ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78hem4-AUXM
Making panels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yp2dp5IVo