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Chair Rail Molding Installation: Dear Concord Carpenter, I have a question on installing chair rail trim. We have a formal dining room that I would like to install chair rail trim to the walls. I’ve been looking at molding styles and decided on a two piece, painted, chair rail. the top will be a 3/4″ x…
Simple Window Trim Dresses Up Window Opening: Recently I was asked what I could do to dress up a basement recessed window that had no trim and was all plaster walls by installing trim around a plastered window well. The designer on the project wanted the window to look like the windows upstairs, which had…
Installing a Custom Fireplace Mantel In the finish carpentry world a Custom Fireplace Mantel is often the aesthetic showpiece of a room. People use mantles to display family photos, treasured artworks, knickknacks and, more recently flat screen televisions. Do You Need A Stock Mantel or Custom Made? Many fireplaces built in today’s homes are of…
How to Build A Window Seat Window seats are and attractive way to decorate alcoves or add useful and attractive detail to a deep dog house dormer. A window seat, in order to look right, should fit wall to wall and stop below the window trim which usually means customer work. Stopping at the window sill…
Fireplaces and Chimneys Mantel Clearance Question . Dear Concord Carpenter, I bought a fireplace mantel at a yard sale and would like to attach it around my existing fireplace which is bare brick with just s simple wood shelf and brick supports. My brother told me that there is a code relative to fire combustibles…
* * * Instructions follow in the text below * * * Install Crown Molding with Rope Lighting Ever since I installed rope lighting behind crown molding on this 2004 project I wanted to do it again. Seven years later I got my chance. Learning how To install crown molding with rope lighting is easy.…
Installing Built-in Bookcases Built-ins come in many shapes and sizes. Many times people place a built in into an odd or irregular spaced area other times people are looking to create an aesthetically pleasing effect or need more storage options. In this case the homeowners had a small irregular shaped, unused closet and a built…
Build A Diagonal Tongue And Groove Shed Door This shed was designed by Sandra Stout from Creative Designs. One of the details that Sandra specified was for the tongue and groove doors to be set at a diagonal. After figuring out the door opening sizes I went back to the shop to build the…
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