[This is part of Our Kitchen Molding Makeover series.]
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The Joy of Moldings
PICTURE RAIL-107 DIY for About $1.52/ft
May 11, 2012
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…
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve finished the majority of our How to Paint Moldings page. I have one video to post about how to caulk moldings. If you need clarification on any point, please don’t…
[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…
Victorian Style This post shows you step by step how to make this beautiful entablature from simple moldings you can buy just about anywhere. And while it may look complicated to build, I assure you that it’s really very simple…
White-painted interior woodwork, one of the greatest charms of the Colonial house, provides the only architectural background that conveys satisfactorily the sense of mellow warmth and graceful dignity in eighteenth-century furniture of mahogany and other dark woods. It constitutes the…
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…
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…
Before & Afters: Picture Rail Molding in Foyer
May 5, 2012
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…
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