Patent ID: 7614190

Claim:
A molding system for a doorway in a wall surface, said wall surface having an existing baseboard disposed adjacent a floor and said doorway having an existing molding disposed around vertical and upper horizontal peripheral edges of the doorway adjacent said wall surface, said system comprising: a) a doorway overlay molding that is attachable to said wall surface in covering relationship with substantially the entire vertical and horizontal lineal length of said existing molding disposed around a perimeter of said doorway; and a baseboard encapsulate that is attachable to said wall surface in covering relationship with substantially the entire lineal length of said existing baseboard; b) wherein said doorway overlay molding comprises a pair of vertical members dimensioned to extend respectively along opposed vertical portions of the periphery of said doorway and a horizontal member dimensioned to extend between said pair of opposed vertical members along an upper horizontal portion of the periphery of said doorway, and said molding system includes at least two upper corner blocks, each of said corner blocks dimensioned to abut at an upper corner block inside edge with said horizontal member of the doorway overlay molding and abut at an upper corner block lower side edge with one of said vertical members of the doorway overlay molding which is in covering relationship over said existing molding; and c) wherein each of said vertical members and said horizontal member of the doorway overlay molding having an exposed top surface, a first side edge and a second side edge and a bottom surface extending from said first side edge to said second side edge wherein a first outer portion of the bottom surface is inclined from a bottom of the first side edge that is in contact with the wall surface to a bottom of an inside edge, said bottom surface having a recessed portion sized and shaped to overlay a plurality of existing molding shapes and extending to a bottom said second side edge, said inside edge in contact directly or indirectly with an outer side edge of the existing molding and the bottom of said second edge adapted to contact a top surface of the existing molding when installed.