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"Door - Fluted Pilasters"
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Pilasters are ornamental framing used on the exteriors of doors, garage doors and occasionally, windows. A door with a decorative, milled crosspiece extending over the entryway will usually have pilasters, which are the vertical pieces supporting the overhead ornamentation. Pilasters are designed to resemble the columns found in ancient Greek and Roman architecture; like those stone columns of past centuries pilasters are generally produced in three styles: smooth, paneled and fluted. | |
Of the three, the fluted pilaster is the most elegant. It has parallel channels running down its length as found in a fluted column. The top of the pilaster consists of a plinth block which is designed to connect to the horizontal crosspiece over the entryway. Fluted pilasters will typically have a smooth area at the base, with the fluting running up the pilaster to a termination point a few inched beneath the plinth block. Many pilasters utilized in modern buildings today are manufactured
from urethane products rather than wood. Urethane is more resistant
to the adverse impacts of weather and often urethane products are
more cheaply produced. This applies particularly to such items as
fluted pilasters, which would require a good deal of millwork if
manufactured from wood. |
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