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Internal Fretwork and Frieze Work

Internal Fretwork and Frieze Work — Cut, carved and fitted to the opening you have. — Karem Woodcraft Internal Fretwork and Frieze Work — Cut, carved and fitted to the opening you have. — Karem Woodcraft Internal Fretwork and Frieze Work — Cut, carved and fitted to the opening you have. — Karem Woodcraft

Cut, carved and fitted to the opening you have.

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About this range

Timber frieze work, cut to order
Frieze panels sit above a doorway, across an archway or along the top of a room, and they are the detail that dates a period interior correctly. We cut each individual piece to order in our Bayswater workshop and deliver Australia-wide.
Nominate your width and height. Nothing here is stock — specify the overall width and outside height and the piece is made to suit. Panels are priced per lineal metre, so the figure shown is the rate rather than the finished price.
Most panels are finished with a 42mm × 42mm pine frame around all four sides; some designs use a 65mm × 32mm frame. Other species of timber and custom sizes are available on request.
The range also covers pelmets. Internal hanging space is 150mm for a single curtain track, or 200mm for a double — worth checking against your track before you order, because it is the measurement people most often get wrong.
Matching existing work is the normal job here, not the exception. Send a photograph and a measurement and we will cut to it. For outdoor work see external fretwork.
Tell us your sizes, or call the workshop on (03) 9720 7266.
Guides: how to measure existing frieze work · which style suits your hallway.

The A, B, C and G series
The 63 frieze designs fall into four series. The A series, A1 to A27, is finished with a 42 x 42 mm pine frame around all four sides; the B series (B1 to B6) and the C series (C1 to C8) use the 65 x 32 mm frame. All are 18 mm MDF, cut to the width and height you nominate, from $356.60 per lineal metre. The G range, G1 to G12, is the mix-and-match series where the pelmet and frieze options are combined to your own layout, cut to your nominated width.
Frieze work or fretwork?
The words are used interchangeably, but on a verandah the frieze is the horizontal panel that runs between the tops of the posts, and inside the house it is the panel above a doorway or across an archway. The outdoor version is cut in LOSP treated pine and lives under external fretwork; everything on this page is MDF for a painted interior, with pine available where the piece is to be stained.
Internal frieze panels: the HFR, DFR and FRI designs
The internal fretwork designs sit inside this range. The HFR1 to HFR5 and HFR8 (from $356.60) and the DFR10 (from $390) are framed in 65 x 32 mm pine; the FRI1, FRI3 and FRI5 (from $573.36) are framed with 90 x 42 mm pine droppers for a wider hallway opening. Which is Victorian and which is Federation is set out in our guide to choosing an internal fretwork style.
How to measure and order a timber frieze
Two figures: the overall width of the opening, inside face to inside face, and the outside height you want the panel to be. For an arched piece add the side drop and the centre drop. Because frieze work is priced per lineal metre, a 2.4 m opening in an A series pattern is 2.4 times the rate. Send the measurements with a photograph of the room and the panel is cut in Bayswater, usually in 2 to 3 weeks, and delivered Australia-wide.


Looking for hallway fretwork or a fretwork arch? The hallway and doorway designs are gathered on the internal fretwork page; this page is the whole frieze range, A to G series included.