How To Add Crown Molding To Cabinets
It s a great light to put on at night as it illuminated the kitchen just enough to not have to put.
How to add crown molding to cabinets. Adding decorative molding to basic cabinets is an easy affordable way to make a big impact in your kitchen. Not only do you have to be aware of an inside corner outside corner right board or left board you also have to magically hold the crown molding up against your miter saw fence at just the right angle or else your corners will never fit together. However for a sturdier approach you should install framing along the cabinet tops. If there s a 3 inch gap for instance you don t want to buy molding that s 6 inches high.
Ace hardware expert mike jakubowski walks us through the steps for this intermediate. Now to extend to the ceiling we needed to add a bit of a ledge to the current cabinets so we would have something to nail the molding to. The crown molding is not nailed directly to the wall cabinets the trick that makes this project so simple is with the addition of wooden nailing strips at the top of the wall cabinets these strips help you accurately position the crown molding and provide a place to nail onto other than the cabinet face. Crown molding comes in a vast array of styles and sizes so picking one that s ideal for your kitchen cabinets may seem tricky at first.
We have cabinets with crown molding on top in our kitchen. Before you shop for crown molding measure the span of your wall cabinets including any exposed sides as well as the space between the top of your cabinets and the ceiling. If there is not a large area of cabinet sides and face frame above your crown bottom line it will be difficult to attach the crown moulding with nails because you angle the nails up often missing the cabinet faceframe all together. With crown molding it seems like there are 10 considerations to make for every single cut.
Because of the tight space between the ceiling and the wood we screwed from below. My husband then put a string of rope lights above the cabinet hidden by the crown molding. You will affix the molding directly to this framing. If desired you can nail or glue the crown molding directly onto your cabinet boxes.
In this video we will go over some tips and tricks that might help when installing crown molding on your. Opening the cabinet doors and going up through the frame into the wood securing it in place. We did this by using a 1 x 4 piece of pine.