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Using trim in corners - how to make it look right with base and crown moulding?
I'm getting ready to place an order for building components for the
small "practice" dollhouse I'm building. I want to use moulding along the floor and ceiling, and vertically in the corners. But where the corner molding joins the baseboard and crown moulding, I think it will look funny. How do you make it look right? Cathy Weeks |
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Kathy, I use a little aluminum miterbox and saw I got from HBS,
www.miniatures.com . I measure the pieces corner-to-corner & mark the measurements lightly on the top edge and put the wall edge flat against the miterbox edge, matching the mark to the center of the 45° cutting slot. For an interior corner angle from the back toward the front. Then I dry-fit, paint/stain, dry-fit and very lightly sand if needed, and then glue the pieces in. I usually start woth the back wall & then glue the two sides. In my first dh I did baseboards & chairrails :- o "Cathy Weeks" wrote I want to use moulding along the floor and ceiling, and vertically in the corners. But where the corner molding joins the baseboard and crown moulding, I think it will look funny. How do you make it look right? Cathy Weeks |
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"Cathy Weeks" wrote in message om... I'm getting ready to place an order for building components for the small "practice" dollhouse I'm building. I want to use moulding along the floor and ceiling, and vertically in the corners. But where the corner molding joins the baseboard and crown moulding, I think it will look funny. How do you make it look right? Cathy Weeks I can't quite picture what you're doing. Are you running the corner molding from floor to ceiling or baseboard to ceiling molding? Are you using thick molding that sticks out beyond the ceiling and floor molding? I don't think that will look good. You can do away with corner molding. I use small quarter round molding in the corners. The curved end faces out. It's hardly noticable and it gives the room a nice finished look. I run it from the baseboard to the bottom of the ceiling molding. Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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I can't quite picture what you're doing. Are you running the corner molding
from floor to ceiling or baseboard to ceiling molding? Are you using thick molding that sticks out beyond the ceiling and floor molding? I don't think that will look good. You can do away with corner molding. I use small quarter round molding in the corners. The curved end faces out. It's hardly noticable and it gives the room a nice finished look. I run it from the baseboard to the bottom of the ceiling molding. Well, the plan is to get a little miter tool of some sort. On a normal corner, we'd have baseboard moulding, and the two pieces would have a 45 degree angle cut, so the two pieces of baseboard will fit together nicely. The part I can't figure out is how to integrate the vertical corner moulding (and I was planning to use quarter round - I don't like the L-shaped corner moulding I've seen so far) Do I just end the quarter round at the baseboard, or is there some sort of cut I should make to integrate it INTO the baseboard? Does that make more sense? Cathy Weeks |
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"havana bill & holly" wrote in message ...
Kathy, I use a little aluminum miterbox and saw I got from HBS, www.miniatures.com . I measure the pieces corner-to-corner & mark the measurements lightly on the top edge and put the wall edge flat against the miterbox edge, matching the mark to the center of the 45° cutting slot. For an interior corner angle from the back toward the front. Then I dry-fit, paint/stain, dry-fit and very lightly sand if needed, and then glue the pieces in. I usually start woth the back wall & then glue the two sides. I'm really sorry...but I didn't follow this. :-( Would you walk me through this again? (I'm really not being obtuse). Thanks, Cathy Weeks |
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Well, the plan is to get a little miter tool of some sort. On a normal corner, we'd have baseboard moulding, and the two pieces would have a 45 degree angle cut, so the two pieces of baseboard will fit together nicely. The part I can't figure out is how to integrate the vertical corner moulding (and I was planning to use quarter round - I don't like the L-shaped corner moulding I've seen so far) Do I just end the quarter round at the baseboard, or is there some sort of cut I should make to integrate it INTO the baseboard? Does that make more sense? Cathy Weeks Yup. First of all you don't need corner molding. I use it just as an interesting touch or if I've messed up wallpapering and it doesn't quite meet at the corners. Molding hides a multitude of sins. What I do is miter the baseboard and ceiling molding and fit those together. I then place the corner molding running from the top of the baseboard to the bottom of the ceiling molding. In other words, I don't integrate it into the other molding. Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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"Carol" wrote in message hlink.net...
Yup. First of all you don't need corner molding. I use it just as an interesting touch or if I've messed up wallpapering and it doesn't quite meet at the corners. Molding hides a multitude of sins. What I do is miter the baseboard and ceiling molding and fit those together. I then place the corner molding running from the top of the baseboard to the bottom of the ceiling molding. In other words, I don't integrate it into the other molding. Gotcha. At first thought, this sounds like it wouldn't look good. But I looked at the Lawbre page at their interior finishing page, and they've done it exactly like you describe, and it looks very, very nice. Cathy Weeks |
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