Jeff Doubét shares Spanish home interiors, resources and products. Cost-effective and creative solutions for enhancing your Spanish home interior design. Store bought Spanish corbels are an example of ready-made components often indistinguishable from those built in the traditional, more expensive construction methods. I share photos and direct links to resources for homeowners, designers + architects seeking more info. Scroll to learn more.

Interior and exterior Spanish corbels are built in similar methods. A traditional way is to build corbels with plywood and standard lumber. Once the form is created, it is covered in waterproofing paper and coats of stucco are applied.

Modern Spanish corbel construction can now incorporate less expensive building methods that include architectural foam that is cement coated. The corbel shape is finished to match surrounding surfaces. Each client chooses the type of construction they prefer. Personally, I enjoy creating Spanish-style interiors with both expensive and affordable methods. The great thing is… once completed, it is often very difficult to tell the difference between the two.

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Spanish Home Interiors | Design With Spanish Corbels

Spanish corbels are most often designed as decorative elements featured in both interiors and exteriors of Spanish-style homes and commercial buildings.

I like to design Spanish corbels in unexpected places. When I can do that, it brings an element of surprise to the guest visitor, or the person staying at the hotel, Airbnb or homeowner project. Corbels add charm to any interior room or exterior facade.

Here, Spanish corbels look great with a coved ceiling in a modest entryway. As a Santa Barbara Home Designer with a lot of construction experience- I enjoy being involved in projects whatever the budget. SEE and Learn more about Spanish style ceiling panels, HERE.

I also like sharing store resources where clients can do more with less- like these attractive Amazon star pendant lights.

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Spanish Corbels Installed in Spanish Home Interiors

Spanish corbels are installed in key locations inside this Spanish home interior design. Hallways to bedroom wings and family room. Entry foyer and they were also used as a visual break between the living room and kitchen. Please scroll the page for ideas on how you can incorporate small, inexpensive details into your own project.

When corbels are combined with top quality design elements, the outcome is a beautiful home with an overall higher perceived value. Above: a view from a bedroom, down a hallway corridor to the dining room.

Above: An extra wide corbel is incorporated into a plaster column. A creative way to separate the kitchen from the living room. This small Santa Barbara Spanish-style kitchen has a bit of Tuscany infused. I like the finishes chosen for the cabinets + countertops.

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Spanish Home Interiors: Affordable Interior Upgrades You Can Make in Your Remodel

Spanish-style corbels are a simple way to upgrade your Spanish home interiors (and exterior remodel).In this project overview, I share how the use of architectural foam was incorporated as the decorative corbels, as well as into ceiling coving in key locations.

This home was a real estate flip, so architectural foam was chosen as the most cost effective way to build the corbels and make something attractive with very little money.

Here, I meet with a favorite General Contractor friend as we strategize how corbel details will improve the hallway entrances in this home.

These images above and below show how the architectural foam corbels turned out once they were finished and painted in this hallway to a guest suite.

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Where to Buy Corbels for your Spanish Home Interior Project

Since my Spanish Home Design Book came out in 2018, there are now independent manufacturers who sell off-the-shelf corbels made of durable urethane foam. One company has designs very similar to those on this page. This attractiveness of this corbel product line is that the company offers multiple different sizes to best fit your specific project.

A direct link to Amazon and affordable corbels in various sizes. Easy to purchase, and install!

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ABOVE: An impromptu design meeting for deciding where we would install decorative corbels. These were architectural foam pieces left over from another local Montecito Spanish-style interior remodel project.

Here is how the small entry turned out once the foam corbels and coving were coated with a thin layer of cement, and finished with drywall mud to match the surrounding wall finishes.

Planning your Spanish Interior Design with Decorative Corbels

When planning your Spanish home interiors, consider main focal points as places you can incorporate decorative corbels. Styrofoam and premade. store bought urethane corbels are easy to “glue and screw” into place. But they will still require some effort to build and blend them into the surrounding wall and ceiling surfaces.

ABOVE: With one leftover remnant, I thought about how we could cut the piece in half and use it in this prominent hallway entrance. Here, I hold up the part to show the crew how we could frame and drywall a non-structural “header” and create an attractive corbel passageway.

Here is how the project turned out once extra framing was added and the drywall details were finished out.

How-To Make Stunning Spanish Interiors

Once our Styrofoam components were cut to size, they were covered in Fiber Mesh and coated with FoamBond. FoamBond is a special mortar made for adhering stucco moldings to the exterior of a home.

In the interior of this home, we used FoamBond to ensure a durable hard coating for the corbels. Once cured, the surrounding surfaces were coated with standard All Purpose Joint Compound.

I shot these photos to show how the completed corbel passageway looks from different vantage points.

Here, a view looking through the corbel passageway, across the living room. See the other corbel(s) installed at thick decorative columns that anchor the kitchen space! Decorative elements like this become unifying designs within this high-end Spanish remodel.

Now, looking from the front corner of the kitchen across the great room to the master bedroom hall.

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* You can also go to this Amazon Direct Link for premade urethane corbels similar in design to the custom project, directly below. A product you can buy now, and “glue and screw” into place.

Other Jeff Doubét Design Projects That May Interest You

I hope you found this episode helpful. Learn about other ways to use corbels in your Spanish home , HERE.

Well friend, this wraps another site visit episode in beautiful Montecito, CA. I hope you enjoyed learning how to infuse more Santa Barbara Style into your own Spanish home design project. Scroll to explore more helpful links and resources for designing and building your own Spanish-style home and landscape.