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Our Molding Makeover Updates

Simple updates to our molding makeover that don’t need to be linked to a pillar page.

Our Molding Makeover Updates

Kitchen Wainscoting Update: Foundation, Picture Rail, Cap Installed

[This is part of Our Kitchen Molding Makeover series.] We had company this last week, so it was a good time to clear the kitchen and living room of molding materials and tools. We still have to install: Pedestals for…

Our Molding Makeover Updates

Kitchen Wainscoting Update

[This is part of Our Kitchen Molding Makeover series.] If I can stop second-guessing myself on tiny design issues, I’d be much farther ahead on this project than I am right now. One minute I’m completely confident that’s the right…

DIY Molding Projects, Our Molding Makeover Updates, Pattern Book, PICTURE RAIL

PICTURE RAIL-107 DIY for About $1.52/ft

Traditional & Victorian Styles There’s no better way to rearrange your pictures with every passing fancy than with a functional picture rail molding. The sheer variety of picture hanging cords and beautiful antique replica hardware hooks available today is nearly…

Our Molding Makeover Updates

Wainscoting In Our Kitchen: Indecision 2012

[This is part of Our Molding Makeover series.] This is a conflict-resolution story of how Jennifer and I came up with a wainscoting design for our kitchen that we both really love.  Spoiler alert: she had the best idea all…

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Moldings and Smiles

We’re getting closer to finishing our Kitchen Molding Makeover!  In the next week we hope to have the wainscoting and cabinet crown moldings installed, and have everything covered in their final coats of paint. Thanks for visiting! Cheers, Jennifer and…

Our Molding Makeover Updates

Two Coats of Paint on Moldings? Really!?

I shouldn’t have been having this conversation with myself this afternoon.  Me, the guy known in the seedy, rough and tumble underworld of molding painters as, “Two-Coat Ken.” OK, so maybe there’s no seedy underworld of molding painters in which…

Molding Before & Afters, Our Molding Makeover Updates

Before & Afters: Picture Rail Molding in Foyer

This is the wall that introduced Jennifer to the joy of moldings. Every time she came or went she passed this vast expanse of white wall. I told her I’d paint it whatever color she wanted, and if she didn’t…