If you are building a new home or remodeling one you already own you can never go wrong by adding architectural detail. Adding architecture detail can dramatically change the look of your home. At the most basic level of trimwork it will serve to hide gaps between walls and floors and gaps around windows and doors. It was in the postwar era of the 1950s that builders began to cut back on the amount of molding that went into a house so they could build them faster and cut down on the cost to build. However new trimwork can always be added later.
If you are in the market for buying and adding trim to your home you will first want to decide how large of trim you will be buying. If your room is very small and has low ceilings the trim you buy will not have to be a large as it would need to be in a room with higher ceilings and more square footage. The first thing you will want to pick out is your crown molding and then match your window casing, door casings and baseboards to the crown. The size will need to be close to the same for your room to look right. Once you have your molding the next thing will be to get it painted and then get ready to put it up. I do not know if everyone paints their molding before they put it up but I do this because I think it is much easier to lay the molding across a couple of saw horses, paint and then touch it up after it is installed. That is just my 2 cents worth to you on how to make your task a little easier. Architecture molding is expensive so take the time to research cutting crown molding angles before you start cutting. Below are some tips that I will share with you that will help you learn how to install crown molding yourself. the crown molding corner cuts will be your hardest to master but with a little practice you will be a pro in no time.
1. Place your molding where it is to be installed. Placing your molding in the room where it is being installed will let it adjust to. the temperature of the room it will be used in therefore making it easier to work with.
2. Cut some small test pieces of crown molding so that you can see how the joints work. Use them to check the corners you are about to work in. Test pieces can tell you whether or not the corner is out of square. You can see how much you need to adjust your saw cut to make the joints work.This is much easier and a whole lost less expensive than cutting up all you molding and not getting the right angel.
3. Buy or borrow a good compound miter saw. Doing a good job in any project always goes better if you have good tools to work with. A good miter saw will help your project go smoother.
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