[This is part of our WAINSCOTING-109 Installation series.]
How to Install the Bed Molding Below the Rail Cap
If you remember reading Part I of this series, I couldn’t find a proper bed molding in town, so ended up having to modify an ogee crown.
I think it’s important to use a crown with a 45 degree spring angle for this treatment; anything less than that and you’ll loose the strength of this design.
I’m really happy with this larger bed molding profile, so ultimately I’m glad I couldn’t find what I was looking for. Now let me show you how I wrapped it around the bottom of the wainscoting cap.
All I did was rip the top half of the crown molding off and was left with a bed molding profile.
In hindsight, I’m glad I had to modify the crown because I ended up with a slightly larger bed molding profile than I would have had if they had the usual kind in stock. I like this larger profile for the wainscoting cap.
Below Take a small piece of bed molding and mark how far down the molding drop is.
Below Then make a scribe block out of some scrap material that is the same dimension as your bed molding drop.
Below Scribe from one end to the other and all the way around the pedestal boxes.
- I look grumpy in these pictures. I’m really not grumpy at all.
Below I start in the middle when I have moldings to wrap, and so that’s what I did here.
Then I made the wrap for the left pedestal.
Below Don’t forget the glue.
I’m using my 23 gauge micro pinner for the small pieces. It shoots 1″ long needle-like pins.
Below Notice that slight gap between the top of the bed molding and the bottom of the rail cap.
I should have cut more of an angle off the crown when I ripped it on my table saw.
Below This is my standard technique for wrapping moldings around a projection like this pedestal box.
It’s best to make all three pieces of the wrap from the same piece of molding.
With the bed molding wrapped around the top of the wainscoting I can install the baseboard.
This is the end of WAINSCOTING-109 Part 4: Wrapping the Bed Molding
Posts in This Series
1. How to Install WAINSCOTING-109 Part 1
2. WAINSCOTING-109 Part 2: Installing the Rail Cap & Edge Molding
3. WAINSCOTING-109 Part 3: How to Make the Pedestal Boxes
4. WAINSCOTING-109 Part 4: Wrapping the Bed Molding
5. WAINSCOTING-109 Part 5: Wrapping the Baseboard
6. WAINSCOTING-109 Part 6: Prepping for Paint
Related Posts & Molding Patterns
- Our Molding Makeover: The big picture of what we’re up to.
- Our Kitchen Molding Makeover series.
- PILASTER-104: Step by step installation post.
- PICTURE RAIL-108: Step by step how to install.
- BASEBOARD-110: Step by step how to install.
