Within minutes to hours after death, the skin is discolored by livor mortis, or what embalmers call postmortem stain, the purple-red discoloration from blood accumulating in the lowermost (dependent) blood vessels.
Common Chair Rail Height. Again, the most common heights for a chair rail are 32/36 inches. Another rule of thumb is that they should be 1/3rd the height of the room.
To determine chair rail placement according to the classic principles, it works this way mathematically: 8Ã12 (number of inches in a foot) = 96 inches. 96 inches Â­divided by 5 (the pleasing ratio) = 19.2 inches. No dining chair is that short so a chair rail installed at that height is pointless. But â two units are 38.5 inches. Measure that distance up from the floor. Thatâs where the chair rail belongs. You can make 38.5 inches the top or bottom or middle of your chair rail. You can see that measurement falls just above the high point of the chair rail in our dining room. As long as you keep the rail close to that ideal distance, it will be most pleasing to the eye.