Adding Crown Molding To Old Kitchen Cabinets
Camila Farah
If you plan to top a bunch of cabinets with crown molding a jig makes it far easier to make.
Construct a guide fence for use with your miter saw. Dry fit the crown molding by holding the front piece and a side piece against the front and side of the baseboard image 1. Each joint in your cabinet molding will form a compound angle. In order to extend all the way we were going to have to stack the molding.
Because the only attachment point was the bottom of the crown molding nothing into the ceiling i made sure to use a nail every two or three inches. Now that you have the baseboards installed it s time to work on installing the crown molding. Use a pin nailer to nail into the corners of the two pieces of crown molding image 2. Mount the crown molding to the cabinet using the brad nailer.
Crown molding gets tricky. To stack the molding we used baseboard molding turned upside down. Using a nail gun nail the crown to the baseboard. For any cabinets with an inside corner cut the miters with the opposite 45 degree angle so that the miter angles on the crown molding cut into itself.
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As usual there was not one split or crack with the mdf. Measure the length of crown molding you will need. Fill in all the nail holes with wood putty. Repeat this process with the rest of the cabinets with outside corners.
How to add crown molding to cabinets choosing crown molding. Make sure the pieces are together and in place snugly. Measure and mark the opposite side piece in the same way. Again make sure to glue and nail the mitered corners and joints.
Begin by using a tape measure to determine the total length of. Then nailed that into the cabinet and the 1 4 ledge we added for support. I attached the crown molding to the ripped down 1x6 with 3 4 brads.
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