Smooth Columns

You’ve seen these columns. They’re in museums, these polished, stone cold, blue veined hulks holding up the twenty-foot high ceilings to protect the museum artifacts for visitors to enjoy.

While some homeowners would love to outfit their own real estate with such architecture, their municipal councils won’t permit this due to fire code hazards and structural soundness. This isn’t to say certain websites and other home building specifics aren’t able to meet these needs where a particular client is selective in their home design. And, most superstore home centers won’t have these columns or capitals mass produced for the educated homeowner, either.

Custom smooth columns come in all styles and forms. The most pricey will use marble imported from Spain, Italy or Monaco, either blue-black marble veined with bone granite or blue-black veined bone colored marble. Either way, depending on the homebuyer’s locale, these aren’t elements friendly, as their upkeep could be as costly as the columns themselves. But, some wood columns, while they range in colors, can hold the high gleam and shine as they stone counterparts do. These wood structures and their tops can either be stained or painted to the color of the client’s choice, ranging in widths from half a foot in diameter to two feet across.

These columns are can be load bearing—to support a balcony and balustrade—or solely used for a temporary need in decorative affairs, like bridal receptions or for a bar and bat mizvah. Either way, these first used Roman architectural styles have come a long way from the days of the gladiator.