[This is part of my How to Install Crown Molding Series.] PJ is installing crown molding in his small New York City apartment. His question is about splicing two pieces of crown molding together. PJ’s scarf joint. Dear Ken: I stumbled…
[This is part of Our Molding Makeover series.] Jennifer asked me if I’d make her a checklist for Our Molding Makeover. She said that even though we’ve talked about the project at length many times, to her the process is…
[This is part of Our Molding Makeover series] When Jennifer called and said she wanted to spend the evening reviewing the moldings we think we want in our Tucson townhouse, I suggested we also celebrate our recent milestone of surpassing…
By Jennifer [This is part of Our Molding Makeover series] Two weeks ago we decided to install moldings throughout our home. If this were a painting project, I would have immediately started scampering around wielding paint chips and constructing and…
If you want to learn more about decorating your home with moldings, then take a peek at these 2012 projects we’re working on for you: More DIY Projects I have a hard drive stuffed with thousands of molding installation…
By Jennifer Like arguments, decorating schemes can be inductive or deductive: that is, you can follow a concrete example to a general principle or vice versa. In other words, you can pick a color you like and find others that…
By Jennifer We met online. Which amazes my coworkers for two reasons. First, my hatred of all things digital is legendary. I print documents out to read them, and edit them by hand. My favorite way to transport data is…
All blogs that accept paid advertising have to have a disclosure policy. Here’s ours. TheJoyofMoldings.com is a self-hosted WordPress blog that went live in January, 2012, but we started out on Blogger as myFinishCarpentry.com in April 2011. Most of it…
“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,…