Studio Place of work Cupboard Growth – How To Make Fake Crown Molding That is Very Simple To Minimize And Set up

Ahead of I am getting to that, let me again up and remind you the place I left off in this challenge closing week. The closing I confirmed you, I had constructed the cubby bridge connecting the 2 tall cupboards (which can be IKEA Sektion cupboards that I’m operating on customizing), after which I had added all the elementary trim to the cupboards. At that time, they gave the impression of this…

And now that the ornamental trim has been added, the cupboards seem like this…

Did you have in mind of that pretend crown molding? Would you’ve ever identified that I cheated that glance with a miles more straightforward procedure had I now not pointed it out?

So let me display you ways I created this easy-to-install pretend crown molding that you simply reduce and set up identical to baseboards. As a way to create that glance, I used a actually beautiful case molding (case molding is used to trim doorways and home windows) and the tiniest (however now not the plainest) crown molding I may just to find. My House Depot had two tiny crown moldings. One used to be very undeniable and one used to be now not. I selected the one who used to be now not.

What I did is I used wooden glue and 5/8-inch 18-gauge brad nails in my nail gun to connect the tiny crown molding to the slender flat space at the fringe of the case molding.

With the ones two items connected to one another, right here’s what that profile gave the impression of…

I left it by myself for some time for the glue to dry, after which I used to be able to chop my items. As a way to reduce, I merely grew to become the trim the other way up, in order that the tiny crown molding used to be on the backside, and I made certain that the case molding used to be driven flat towards the fence on my miter noticed.

I marked the place I had to reduce (identical to I used to be slicing baseboards), and I all the time put a tiny mark to job my memory which course my perspective must be reduce.

And with that case molding sitting flat towards the fence, I reduce at the mark.

After which I grew to become the reduce piece over, with the tiny crown molding on the most sensible, and connected it to the cupboard the usage of 1.5-inch 16-gauge nails.

I imply, y’all! This might now not had been more straightforward. This offers you the glance of fancy crown molding whilst taking all the guesswork and frustration out of slicing actual crown molding.

There are two causes. First, there actually aren’t many crown moldings that I really like. I generally tend to take hold of the similar one again and again. And because I’ve already used that one at the paint swatch cupboard, I sought after one thing other in this, however there wasn’t one I favored.

However most significantly, I used to be afraid that a real, huge piece of crown molding would stick out too a ways, inflicting the returns at the crown molding on those out of doors sections to increase previous the aspect trim of the cubby bridge an excessive amount of. So I wanted a design that might give me the glance of crown molding, and provides me some more or less perspective, with out it protruding too a ways. And this labored superbly.

In my humble opinion, this appears to be like each bit as improbable as a cast piece of enormous crown molding. And it used to be such a lot more straightforward to chop and set up!

As soon as I used to be certain that my thought would paintings, I proceeded to do the pretend crown molding at the cubby bridge in the very same approach…

The phase via the wall used to be the toughest as a result of I additionally needed to reduce the molding to suit underneath that angled ceiling. I used to be so happy with how exactly I reduce that perspective! 😀

I simply love how this grew to become out. And I will’t wait to get all of it painted!

I used the similar case molding and the similar procedure at the backside trim, aside from as a substitute of the usage of a tiny crown molding, I connected quarter spherical to the molding sooner than slicing it.

I handiest wrapped the ground trim across the two out of doors sections of cupboards, and I left the toekick undeniable to check the toekick at the mural wall cupboards. I didn’t use quarter spherical or anything else at the toekick space.

So in this phase, I put the trim at the entrance, after which wrapped it round on that 3.5-inch go back, after which stopped.

After which I repeated that in this phase as smartly…

After which this backside trim in this phase needed to wrap round this aspect additionally. This piece isn’t in fact connected but as a result of I realized on the closing minute that I will’t connect that till the baseboard on that phase is on. However I will’t connect the baseboard till that door is trimmed out. 😀 So for now, that piece is solely sitting there, and it’ll must be reduce shorter after the baseboard is connected.

In order that’s it with the trim! This complete cupboard unit is now all trimmed out and able for wooden filler, sanding, caulk, primer, and paint. I’ve nonetheless were given a solution to cross, however I believe just like the onerous phase is finished!