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Covering My Mistake with This New (and Better!) Design [This is part of Our Molding Makeover series and my How to Install Crown Molding Series.] Find Inspiration in Your Furniture, Lamps and Other Decor A good place to find design inspiration for…
Excellent Architectural Subordination in Three Parts When readers send us pictures of their work they say we helped inspire, it makes all the time we spend creating content for The Joy of Moldings worthwhile. Dave has been a very earnest…
220, 150 Grain I can hardly imagine sanding a room full of moldings without my inventory of sanding sponges. I have a box full of them. Literally. They help you make quick work of sanding flat-stock moldings and especially moldings…
Federal Style A finial return is an excellent way to terminate a crown molding in a room with vaulted ceilings and an open floor plan. In this expample I used it to terminate a flying crown molding, but you can…
Or Else! [This is part of our How to Paint Moldings series.] I learned this quick tip the hard way.
How to Shape Spackling in Difficult Molding Corners [This is part of our How to Paint Moldings series.] The eye is naturally drawn to the intersections of moldings in corners, and so doing a really good job prepping them is…
1/4″ Thick Pre-Cut 2′ X 4′ Sheet When you only need a small piece of 1/4″ thick mdf board for a molding project, you can go to Home Depot and buy one of their pre-cut boards. You pay a premium…
Extend Wall Plug on Wainscoting Arc shields are made for extending electrical outlets beyond their original position from the wall. I’ve used them on both light switches and wall outlets after installing wainscoting, baseboards and other moldings.
Our Bathroom Light-Hunting Safari Part 2 By Jennifer Lighting our half-bath presented a Gordian knot of design challenges: limited space, basic functional requirements, and poor choices at our initial price point. We can’t expand the bathroom and I don’t intend…
