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dado rail issue

4 years ago

Hi my parents just moved into their new house . Dado rail in living room but as you can see the wall has a curve and the rail doesn’t. Lol what’s my options here ? Can you buy bendy dado rail or can a joiner put another one up that’s done in a way that it doesn’t look daft ? Thanks in advance

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