Disclaimer - ignore the general scruffiness, crap and spider webs. I struggle to reach them.
We are putting in a picture rail. I'm just trying to work out where because our room has lots of angles. Husband and I dont agree.
We have quite heigh ceilings. The room has open stairs. The ceiling over the stairs starts off double height and as the stairs go up, it becomes single height. There is an open area under the stairs.
I think it makes sense to put the picture rail a couple of inches above the bottom of the wooden box under the stairs. The ceiling here is lower than the rest of the room. Then follow it round at that height around the room. That would make it about 65cm deep around most of the room. This will be above door height.
Then when we get to the stairs, I think we need to continue the picture rail up the stair wall. The lights and the stairs are at different angles. I think we need to measure the picture rail height against the lights as we go up, not the stairs. That would make it mid height between a picture rail and dado rail going up.
By the time it gets to the top, rail would be more picture rail height again bit still a little lower than expected.
Then we have the smallest landing in the world so continue the picture rail around there at that height. This would be a couple of inches below the top of the doors.
Finally we have a big wall over the stairs opposite the lights. This is a massive space but the photo doesnt show it well. I suggest we just paint this and dont bother with any rails.
The picture with the sofa is what I'd like but my husband doesn't like it. Tbf he doesnt want to decorate at all but as you can see we need to!
I'd quite like a rail going up the stairs because we tend to touch the wall at the top. The stairs will be difficult to paint. If the paint ends up grubby where we touch it, we can repaint that without having to repaint the whole area.
Is there a better way? Sorry for the amount of words!