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HOME DESIGNER SUITE 2018 ADD CROWN MOLDING HOW TO
HOME DESIGNER SUITE 2018 ADD CROWN MOLDING INSTALL
HOME DESIGNER SUITE 2018 ADD CROWN MOLDING TRIAL

Then you have the option of doing the same for the opposite wall (to this first wall) and then making fancy corners for both edges of the two remaining boards (Installation Option 1). We will work this project beginning with one piece that will be squared off on both ends and will be installed on the wall opposite the door, preferably. I find it extremely helpful to keep my supplies in an easy access bucket when I am up and down the ladder every few minutes.

Blue Painters Tape or a Scrap Piece of Lumber (1×2) – optional but helpful.It costs a bit more, but it was worth it to me!) Molding -in a style o f your choice (I chose molding that is already finished to save time and energy on this project.Framing Square or Carpenters Square (my personal preference for this project) – optional but helpful.Compound Miter Saw (one that miters and bevels).Safety Gear – eye, ear, respiratory protection.You can also use any number of crown molding jigs if you do prefer, but again, this tutorial will focus on crown molding installation as the ‘pros’ tend to do it. To complete this project, you will need all of the materials shown above in addition to a compound miter saw. The method I will go into below is a bit more precise and detailed and involves a combination of squared edges along with mitered, beveled, and coped edges and will result in a very tight fitting piece of work! At least one can hope… I am building on it just a bit for those of you, who like me, need every single detail spelled out.

HOME DESIGNER SUITE 2018 ADD CROWN MOLDING HOW TO

This how to helped me the most and is the basis for this tutorial I am outlining today. Every single one seemed to leave out a huge key component that was utterly crucial. And what do you know… it worked, after a bit a finagling because even that was not as self explanatory as most of the tutorials made it sound.

HOME DESIGNER SUITE 2018 ADD CROWN MOLDING TRIAL

So… after an entire week of trial and error (mostly error) I finally decided to go old school, if you will, and stick with the tried and true method of the pros. Why should they work for everyone else and not me? But they didn’t. I must have been missing something obvious, that is all I can figure. There are a number of awesome jigs available on the market that claim to make this easy and fast, and yahoo for that! I tried 2 of them and could not make it work. I’m still not sure why to be perfectly honest because some of the methods I was just positive were going to be flawless. I youtubed (totally a verb) and I how to’ed (also a verb) till I was blue in the face and still nothing worked out, not even close. It seems silly… this is what I do after all… I’m a ‘builder’ by trade and build I could not do here.

I simply could not make any of them work for me. There are quite possibly 1.7 million various methods for installing and cutting crown molding and I tried 1.5 million of them. I worked on this project in partnership with The Home Depot as part of the #LetsDoThis campaign and all to promote getting off your rear and getting those jobs done around your home that need doing! So true to form, #letsdothis my friends and I will jump right on into the deets of this how to!īut before I jump into the details, let me preface this post by saying the method to my madness here is that of the pro’s.

HOME DESIGNER SUITE 2018 ADD CROWN MOLDING INSTALL

Like all good stories, there is an underlying lesson to be learned, so with this complete guide I shall now provide, you lovely folks can go forth and install crown molding in any room of your home, with nary a scrape or kerfuffle (totally technical term). The good news is… it looks amazing (beauty is sacrifice, am I right?) and I lived to tell about it. So… I installed crown molding in my home office this week… and it was the hardest and most frustrating experience I have had in a very long time… and I loved it! I’m quite literally covered in bruises and I have many a horror story to tell about the process.

Home designer suite 2018 add crown molding