Crown molding can add value to your home and add a touch of elegance to any room. You can add crown moldings to ceilings, kitchen cabinets and built-in cabinetry. Crown molding is not terribly expensive; you can purchase it by the foot at many lumber yards. Installing crown molding can be intimidating to a lot of people; however, the do-it-yourself handyman can install trim with just a few tools in a matter of a few hours for a typical room.
Instructions
1. Set up a step ladder to get easy access to the ceiling level. You do not want to be leaning or stretching trying to reach the wall and chance a fall.
2. Determine if the crown molding you are using is a 45-degree design, or if the crown molding is a 38/52-degree angle design. Take a framing square and a section of crown molding to check this. If the angle behind the crown is 45-degrees, than you have a 45-degree crown molding. If the angle is not equal behind the crown molding, you are working with a 38/52-degree angle design. You need to know what style of crown you are working with to determine the miter angle from the chart on the second reference.
3. Place a digital angle finder in the first corner. Read the angle on the angle finder, and record it on a piece of paper. The digital angle finder has two arms that pivot off of an end point. When each arm is placed against the two walls with the pivot point in the corner, it gives you the degrees or angle of the wall. The digital angle finder has a button on it that converts between the angle and degrees that you measured.
4. Look up the spring angle to cut the two pieces of the crown molding for the corner. Refer to the chart at reference number two. Take a couple pieces of scrap, and cut the two different angles on them. Dry fit these in the corner to check the fit of the crown molding. Adjust the angle of the joints to get a perfect fit if the angles are off.
5. Cut the actual pieces of crown molding to the final angles determined by using the scrap crown moldings from the last step.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for the remaining crown molding in the room.
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