Friday, March 05, 2010
Crown Molding
I am nearing completion on the latest home improvement project. I remodeled my two spare bedrooms, the hallway (if you can call it a hallway), the living room and the front entry. All got new windows (except the hallway and front entry, they have no windows), a new coat of paint (in some cases 3 or 4 coats of paint), new baseboards, casing around the windows and crown molding. I had some issues with the crown molding. In fact I will be brutally honest with you, I suck at it. I ended up having my brother Jeff, help me with the spare bedrooms, and they turned out looking great. I told Jeff, that I would be able to handle the hallway and front entry. Wrong. They didn't come out right. I decided to use these cheater blocks that I saw at Menards. Which you put on the inside corners. But I didn't buy them at Menards, I told myself I could make them on my own. But I did take pictures at Menards so I would have some idea what I am doing.
I made them out of all of extra pieces of crown molding that I had screwed up with. And I had plenty of extra pieces. I wanted to know which way you thought looked better. The correct way, shown here without the corner blocks. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmoWxpDOOedRChOrYGrNSrtPJq0n5buTF3GVLAG_dMy_ZQAA3PyiGb591ANi0oXzqUVKR0lTY0arwRkCCAL4H6q9aVlGEO_q4ID6k0XgufFlzrmqIDRAvM7V4mlAlYqDiEmZA/s400/P1310058.JPG)
Or the cheater way, shown here with the corner blocks.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgqvxr9EB-T8FEOv3xuLFURAvdBuwP0JxJ-yNNSgYgkF5fYL6LlGf0ufe94uP5wXHfWps7JkisMzHLeo9wx-WdhkrbX5bzWetLh_xslo7mxDVdj47xw5q8B6iLvEi_xSVqihE5/s400/P3010031.JPG)
I would have posted close ups, but I didn't want you to see the gaps.
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Corner blocks or not, it looks nice Rick.
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