Traditional Style, 1913 Photos courtesy of Paul Castrilli. This tall wainscoting, located in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the perfect thing to grace the walls of your great room. And even though it’s finished with…
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Traditional Style, 1913 Photos courtesy of Paul Castrilli. This tall wainscoting, located in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the perfect thing to grace the walls of your great room. And even though it’s finished with…
[This is part of my How to Install Moldings series.] Step 1: Move the Electrical Box for c. $75.00 Nearly all light switches are positioned too close to the side of a door frame to allow me to install wide…
[This is part of my CROWN MOLDING-102 series.] In this post I’ll show you how I installed the last three moldings that complete this large crown molding buildup.
[This is part of my CROWN MOLDING-102 series.] The next layer applied to this crown molding buildup is the frames I made from MDF-200. These frames are designed to house the ornaments — scrolls on the long runs and the…
[This is part of my CROWN MOLDING-102 series.] Installing these large, flat-stock pieces of mdf so that they match nicely is an exercise in patience, for sure. But I know you can do it. In this installation I mistakenly did…
[This is part of my CROWN MOLDING-102 series.] As with most things in life, you have to lay a solid foundation if you want a thing to last. This crown molding installation is no different. In this post I show…
[This is part of my CROWN MOLDING-102 series.] Apart from the compo rosette in the corners, I created this grand soffit crown molding with materials from…you guessed it, my local lumber yard’s regularly stocked molding inventory. At a minimum, the…
Traditional Style Focal Point, the company that makes this foam molding, gives it the name Versailles Frieze. And while you could certainly use it as a frieze on a crown molding or an entablature, I opted to use it as…
It gives me great joy to present the work of yet another one of my talented readers. I give you, Winona! Dear Ken, I read your thanksgiving post from Aaron and I too am thankful for the instructions and confidence…