Crown Moulding A Love Hate Relationship
December 19, 2006 No Comments
Have you ever walked into a room and noticed how classy the room looks because it has crown moulding. For that look to appear there had to be an experienced craftsman involved. My son and daughter-in-law, who are expecting in February wanted to dress up the babies room and crown moulding was one of the upgrades. Being the perfectionist that we are and of course wanting every thing just right for the babies room, we began our research. Joseph Fusco has an excellent article on how to cut crown moulding.
We read Joseph’s article and went wow! Let’s see, to install about $45.00 worth of crown moulding we are going to need to buy nails, caulk, paint and a $300.00 power compound mitre saw. The alternative was to attempt to use a coping saw and cut the contours on to one of the pieces of moulding. Neither of us felt comfortable about the coping saw. There has got to be another method for us to explore. Hark, let’s check out the Do It Yourself Network site. The magic answer appeared in the form of precut inside corner blocks. You just nail them into the corner and then cut the crown moulding straight at the ends and butt it up to the corner blocks. By utilizing the corner blocks you eliminate the difficult mitre cuts and turn this into a project that almost any homeowner can do. The corner blocks are available at most home improvement stores.
Now to the crown moulding purist this may not be the preffered method to install crown moulding, but for the homeowner looking to dress up a room it makes a viable alternative.
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