Everything you put in your niche — flower, statues, found-art objects — will look prettier when they are framed with moldings! They are so easy to decorate with some simple moldings from your local lumber yard, and are especially suited…
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April 2012
I’ve seen a lot of relationship stress accumulate when couples tackle home improvement projects together. As Jennifer and I started to work on the house together, we developed a plan to stave off any such unpleasantness before it got the…
Sean wants to know how I built this corbel return that I integrated into CROWN MOLDING-125. It’s really easy, I’ll show you step by step. I don’t have the installation pictures from this project, but I have something similar to…
How to Install BASEBOARD-100 for About $1.07/ft
April 18, 2012
Craftsman/Prairie Style I love the angular steps of this baseboard design. It’s like Falling Water, but without the water, kind of. I based it on one of Frank Loyd Wright’s baseboards, but from which home I don’t remember.
Hello Ken, Thank you in advance for a minute of your time. We love the tall craftsman wainscoting that your site shows on WAINSCOTING-100. And we currently have the same baseboards running through our entire house. My question is as…
Ken and Jennifer, I have been following The Joy of Moldings (I left comments a few weeks ago under the name “Ryan”) for a bit now, and I just wanted to say thanks for such a great page. It really…
By Jennifer No household can be truly harmonious without a cat or two. Chiefly they serve as fluffy, pettable ventriloquist’s dummies (as in, “Julia says, ‘Is this all there is? It’s all ashes — ashes!’” or, “Sky told me he…
Hi Ken and Jen, My name’s Everett, a 24-year-old recent first time home buyer from good ol’ its-so-humid-I-can’t-breathe, Louisiana. As the son of a brickmason, who had no problem forcing his 9-year-old son to haul brick-loads of wheelbarrows on his…
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