Installation & Design Tips

[This is part of our How to Paint Moldings series] You don’t need to mask your crown moldings with tape when painting your walls.  All you need is a good paint brush, good paint and the right technique. In fact,…

[This post is part of my How to Install Moldings series series] If you’ve ever wondered how much money it would cost to hire a good finish carpenter to install your moldings versus installing and painting them yourself, then this detailed…

[This is part of our How to Paint Moldings series] An experienced painter advised me to add Floetrol to a can of trim paint I was going to use on a really large fireplace surround because I was worried that…

[This post is part of my How to Install Moldings series.] Tray ceilings are a contemporary architectural feature that have ended up in way too many traditional style homes.  They try to fill our need for unique detail in our otherwise…

For the last ten years, these are the few hand tools that I always keep in my tool belt when installing crown molding.

What Well-Dressed Moldings are Wearing [This is part of Our Molding Makeover Series.] The Sunday we walked into a local ACE Hardware store to buy a can of Benjamin Moore molding paint, Jennifer, dressed smartly in her latest Patagonia ensemble,…

“Period Classical Moldings: A Primer on These Touchstones of Neo-Classical Architecture” Author: Norman L. Vandal Published in Fine Homebuilding Magazine April/May 1984 No. 20 A detailed glossary of Neo-Classical moldings. When I first studied historic architecture back in the mid-nineties,…