Adding molding to medicine cabinet?
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Adding molding to ceiling beam - how to offset curve?
Comments (11)There is an easy way. It's very simple, although it may sound complicated at first. I'll give you an example using some assumed measurements for your situation, and you can adjust to what you actually have. You will need a facing board whose width is just a little more than the greatest distance between the bottom of the beam and the ceiling, at whatever point that occurs. Let's say that the distance from the bottom of the beam to the ceiling is 6" at its greatest point (presumably one of the ends). Mark a distance on your board of, say, 6-1/4" from its bottom edge (so that, when you are done cutting, the facing board will give you some wiggle room by hanging down about 1/4" below the bottom of the beam). Then put the board in place so it butts up against the low center point, plumb it horizontal with your level, and fix it in place (2 nails?). Then, get out a drafting compass (you know, those things you use to draw circles on paper). Set the distance between the points of the compass to the distance between the ceiling and the pencil mark you made. In the next step, make sure that the distance you set the compass points to doesn't change as you are working with it. Then, simply run the compass point along the ceiling and the pencil point along the board, from one end to the other. The pencil will mark a line on the board that exactly conforms to any deviations in the ceiling. Take the board down, cut along the marked line with a saber saw, and you're ready to put it in place. If you've been able to follow my instructions, you will have a board that conforms to the irregular ceiling and hangs down about 1/4" lower than the beam at all points. Do the same thing for the other side of the beam. Then nail a third piece across the bottom and it's a wrap! If you have any slight gaps when you're done at the ceiling line, you can put a small piece of trim in place that will hide them. Hope that's clear. The link below (illustration 5) shows how to use a compass to scribe an irregular surface in a different application, but, hopefully, this may help your understanding of the technique. Let me know if you need anything clarified. Here is a link that might be useful: Scribing with a compass...See MoreAdding molding AFTER cabs are installed?
Comments (8)Pektel had me thinking. Is the nailer the L- shaped wood that sits on the top of a full overlay cab and you nail the moulding into it? For some reason, the full overlay doors seem to show a shadow between the door and the moulding in lots of pictures. It almost looks like a line. My cabinet man insists that I need to use the L-shaped half-box with Executive full overlays or the carpenters will go crazy with an old ceiling, but I hate that shadow look. Is there any way to avoid that look? You never see it on inset cabinets, but my kitchen is too tiny for them. Thank you!...See MoreAdding moldings to cabinets
Comments (4)Thanks! Those are pretty! We really added trim on our kitchen "island." Not really an island...penninsula? It looks really plain. Here's what it looked like yesterday. My husband was still finishing. But the painting starts tomorrow. Gulp. I've wanted to have the cabinets painted for so long. I hate the oak. But it's kind of scary. I haven't decided if I want the baseboard to be white and all the other trim to be cream like the rest of the cabinets or if all the trim should be white....See MoreAdding a Cabinet to kitchen ceiling?
Comments (4)Thanks Iordered it. WIll need help on installing so its level lol...See Morerandekasp
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