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Installing A Custom Cabinet Door In A Bathroom Niche Last week we made the a custom cabinet door and face frame surround for this bathroom closet niche. Today was installation day. Photo Below: Scribing the face frame around tile and to uneven walls. Raised panel doors; Shorter lower door and taller upper door. Using a…
Buying A Fireplace Mantle We are in working in Winchester, Mass this month adding some nice finishing touches to a high end retirement condo before the owner moves in. The old mantel above was 6′ high. Besides being to large for the room and not to the new owners taste, it was also too high…
Installing a Hardwood Flooring Border and Feature Strip: Hardwoods floors offer an unrivaled sense of quality that never ceases to get stale or fade with home building or decorating trends. Hardwood flooring has many species and finishes ranging from the more traditional classics such as, oak and ash to modern or contemporary styles like maple…
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…
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