Once everything is hung, you’ll want to caulk the seams, gaps, and holes before you point. We used white paintable Dap caulk. Use a caulk gun in the following places: Where the crown meets the ceiling Where the crown meets the wall Where two pieces of crown meet Any nail holes (you...
I’ve been installing the baseboard molding, and it’s going up pretty quick. I completed about half of the molding last Saturday, and plan to finish the rest this weekend. The toughest part about installing any molding (baseboard, shoe molding, chair rail, crown molding) is getting all th...
-I just butt one wall up over the previous and then caulk the corner. I like crown moulding so that’s what I would use at the ceiling but you can get creative and do 100 different things. Experience comes from doing and the more you do the more confidence you’ll have in trying th...
12. Add another 5½” piece between the center box and the ceiling edge moulding so that it is centered on the short side of the center box frame, 13” on center in my case. 13. Repeat these steps for the center box on the other side of the light fixture. 14. Caulk both sides...
If your ceiling isn’t completely straight, you may have some additional cuts to make. Place the board tightly against the wall and the crown moulding. Once in place, use the nail gun and nail twice (roughly top and bottom of the board) along each stud that the board is over. With ...
For the top of the units, we added a trim piece similar in width to the ones on the front edges. You can add a crown moulding here too, but we chose a narrow trim to keep everything simple and minimal. You can easily cut all of the trim with a mitre saw, and attach it all ...
For the crown molding, I wheeled out the miter saw and bought aKreg Crown Jigto help with all my crown moulding cuts. In the future I’m going to cut crown without any type of jig. Once you realize that the saw bed is the ceiling and left is right and right is left, it becomes...
I debated removing the tiny crown moulding, but decided that patching all the damage would make too much work for myself! 🙂 What I should have done was trim an inch or so off all the bottom tiles, which would give me more tile at the top. It doesn't look horrible, but I wish ...
▢ Trim and Moulding ▢ Nails ▢ Wood Filler ▢ Caulk ▢ Paint's Tape ▢ Paint Instructions Cut pieces to size using a compound miter saw. Label your cut pieces as you go so you aren't searching for where they belong when tacking them to the wall. Attach the trim to the wa...
window sills, we also added trim and crown moulding around the windows to give them a more custom look. Click here to see how to trim a window. We also did similar upgrades to the windows in our family and dining rooms—Click here to see our family room;Click here to see our dining...