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Sun 22 Jul, 2007 10:00 am
Often between rooms in a home (e.g., bathroom and bedroom; kitchen and adjoining hallway) there is a small slightly raised strip of wood.
What is it called?
I believe it's called a threshold.
Do you mean between two different floor finishes, i.e. between tile and carpet, or wood and ceramics? If so, we (interior designers, architects, builders, etc.) call it a "reducer", although I'm not sure that's the correct term. It's meant to mask the different heights of two different floor finishes (so you don't trip), provide a transition between them and to protect the edge of the higher finish.
Oops, "threshold" is probably right, boomerang! (Although, we'd probably just use that term for exterior doorways.)