Crown Molding For The Living Room

Bored of the regular look of a room and want to bring about some changes? Try crown molding. This will transform your space and make it look ornate. Crown molding is a very popular way to change the look of your house and people generally use crown moldings on ceilings for an added effect. The best thing about installing a ceiling crown molding is that regardless which type of ceiling mold you choose, you can apply the same set of instructions.

Follow these simple steps to change the look and feel of your house.

1. To get the right angles for your crown molding, begin by measuring the corners of the room with the help of a combination square. Hold it horizontally against the wall and the 90 degree section should correspond with the wall. If the 2 sides are congruous, you have a square corner. If the sides do not touch the square perfectly, then it is less than 90 degrees. If the walls are unevenly touching the square then corner is more than 90 degrees. With the help of the square, get the angle estimation to as close as possible and note that down for cutting the molds accurately.

2. Use tape measure to get the distance of the wall.

3. Adjust the miter saw angle accordingly and set it for cutting the final molding.

4. Leave the bottom of the molding on the table horizontally and position the molding piece on miter saw. Check the molding should be at the same angle on the saw as it would be on the ceiling. Once in place, turn on the miter saw and let it begin its work.

5. Make a pencil mark on the bottom of the molding after measuring the length of the crown mold against the wall where you want to install it.

6. Now make adjustments to the miter saws angle towards the right exactly half of the angle of the corner of the wall where you will place the molding. Prop up the molding at the right angle against the fence and the table, align the blade with the pencil mark and begin cutting the molding. The distance is widest on the top of the molding and narrow at the bottom which means that the cut is right.

7. Start the position of the molding between the walls and the ceiling for installation. Nail them into the joists and not just into the dry wall for proper position.

8. Repeat the same set of steps against all the walls in the room.

After completing these simple steps, stand back and enjoy the great work of crown moldings on your ceiling that will change the way your house looks henceforth. Don’t be petrified by the idea of doing this work all across the house once you have done it with a single room in your house. The process remains the same and the transformation is endless. So what are you waiting for? Get started on your next room now, you did a pretty good job with the living room!

Cut N Crown Jigs: Why You Need Them

Why Crown Molding

Crown molding, in all essence, add beauty to any room. Be it a master bedroom or a home office. The installation of crown molding ensures elegance to any room. But while it is mostly for the beautification of your home space, the process of installing it requires a bit of knowledge with carpentry and tools. Thankfully, a company like cutncrown.com has found a way to simplify the process to cater to the needs of those who are fond of do it yourself home improvement ideas.

What are Jigs?

Crown molding jigs are essential tools to be able to do the desired crown molding. There are basically three types of jigs that can be found and bought from cutncrown.com, 38°, 45° and 52°. These jigs will correspond to the three types of spring angles that will be used in cutting the crown moldings. However, the angle for the crown moldings will depend on the crown angle as well as the wall angle, rooms with low ceilings will definitely look better with crown moldings tilting upwards as this will make the room look higher, and vice versa, rooms with low ceilings will work well with crown moldings that are tilted downwards.

How to use the Jig

To ensure the perfection of the crown molding you are trying to create, best use an efficient jig. Once you have that, make sure that the jig you are using is sitting perfectly fit against the saw guide. You also have to make sure that the crown molding is held snug against the jig. This will lessen errors while doing your cuts. The jigs, as mentioned before, are one of the most essential tools any person would need in creating the crown molds. Cutncrown.com has specialized the jigs that they sell to be able to ensure that there are fewer errors. Aside from that, other tools being sold by the company have also been tweaked in a way that when used together, it will ensure a perfect result almost every time.

Where to find Cut N Crown Jigs

Once you are able to get a hold of the best crown molding jig by Cut N Crown, you can now proceed to creating crown molding for your home. You can learn about the process as well in the company's website. The process they have formulated will also work very well with their tools. You can view the entire tutorial on how to cut crown moldings in a video posted to their website. An article about it is also published there.

2013 AWFS Fair In Las Vegas, Woodworkings Best!

We recently finished up a woodworking trade show in Las Vegas called the AWFS Fair. It was a great show for us as we were able to spend five days showing serious woodworkers and do it yourself types alike how to simplify their life and cut crown molding the easiest way possible. We demonstrated our Cut-N-Crown jig hundreds of times to thousands of people and every time had a new gratification as the crowds loved our simple technique! Another great part to the show was being able to walk around and see some of the other great products out on the market. One of our personal favorites is the Grr-Ripper table saw push block by Micro Jig. We value safety in our shops and always are on the look out for the best safety equipment on the market. Micro Jig continuously provides just that. Of course it is one thing to have great products, but a whole other to be great people! The man that invented the micro jig products and his family run a class act organization and we recommend anyone heading to a woodworking trade show to stop by thier booth and introduce yourself to them. They always seem to have the time to talk woodworking, their product or whatever the subject may be. Always a pleasure to run into them! Here is a bit more about their table saw jig as seen on their youtube video: Of course if you want more information on their product, visit their website http://microjig.com

The Three Easy Steps To Cutting and Installing Crown Molding.

Here Sheldon shows a quick video on how to measure, cut and install crown molding. This video is part of a larger series you can view on our youtube page. Or if you think you are ready to make the simple and easy choice for installing crown molding, go to our website now! +cutncrown

Contractors, The "Pro's", Even use Cut-N-Crown, It is Easy

Testimonials from the Professionals

This is why contractors use this tool. Simplicity and the ability to immediately train your guys how to cut and install crown molding. This contractor could not have said it any better. Thank you for the Thank you.

Properly Cutting Crown Molding Angles, The Long Run

When it comes to the how to of crown molding, we at Cut N Crown have been the running experts now for over 12 years. Not only is our crown molding jig hands down the best system for cutting crown molding but we have been educating woodworkers beyond just our tools. We teach you many how to crown molding techniques on our youtube page that show how you can take on certain aspects of your crown moulding job beyond the simple 90 degree straight corner. Join us in this small tutorial on long runs with crown molding using splices and scarf joints. Remember while this may be elementary to you it is actually something new and unused by our newer crown molding amateurs. We all remember when we first started out do we not?

Remember what Sheldon is talking about here can be applied to any crown molding installation just listen to what he says. Of course he is using his tool to teach it but what you have to know is the proper way to join those crown moulding long runs. Cutting the crown molding angle is the most important long run joint you can have and it is important to for beginners to know how to do it properly, with or without a crown molding jig. Too many times have we been down to a new friends home and noticed that his crown molding butts straight up to the next run, we always hope for his sake that it was like that before he bought the house but are hesitant to ask. You do not want to be that rude house guest or a crown molding snob...

Coping Crown Molding Takes Too Much Time

So Imagine that every thing you did in your life was done the hard way. Picture it with me. Hmmm lets think what is easy in your life but you would prefer to make it hard. How about dialing the phone. When you push a button on your phone it goes beep and dials immediately. How about we go back to the old rotary dial. Press your finger into the slot for the nine and slowly roll the dial around and make sure you go all the way otherwise your phone may think it was an eight and after rolling out ten of those dials and taking about a minute, oh darn dialed the wrong number let's start over again. That... would be a huge waste of time. Here is another one. Let us remove your dish washer. We have a dishwasher, as do most homes that have seen a renovation in the last 25 years. Funny thing is though I still watch my mom washing dishes when she visits. I laugh because while she spends a half hour prepping, running water, scrubbing, rinsing, drying and putting away those dishes, I spend about two minutes loading and about 1 minute unloading the beloved dishwasher.

"It is just the way I like to do it" she will say. Listen if it is comforting to waste time and hence money, then please do keep your creature comforts, but do you mind if we try and move on to learning new things and improving how we do old things.

That was a great segway to what is on our minds today here at Cut-N-Crown. As most of you know we are crown molding people. Many years ago we were simple crown molding creating and installing crown molding what was thought of the "simple way". Though if you remember all of those years ago crown molding was anything but simple. Complicatedly simple, right? "complicatedly" We love making up our own words, or is that a word on its own, not sure, probably does not matter(back to Crown Molding now).

Crown molding was hard and it was only after many years and much experience were we extraordinarily good at it. Our clients would say great. It was unexceptable though how much room for error was involved in the process and how hard it was to teach the people who worked for us. So we made the steps to make crown molding simple. Not the complicated version of simple but the truly relentlessly simple. Not sure if the relentlessly description needed to be there, but it is and we like the sound of it. We like relentlessly because we worked very hard to ensure that every step of the way the new how to crown molding was going to be error free and simple. Those keywords turn into time savings and time savings turns into money savings and we do that over and over for you, every time you pull out our jig.

Our system was so great that every one now has their own version of it. We promise they are lesser versions, we are the original and the best. The other mock ups of us had to work around our patented design and in doing so created cheap versions that have movements that you do want when striving for perfection. Another thing, if you have a question on that subject please immediately call us and we will tell you why. No Seriously Call, our number is on the first page of our website, we encourage the call and have the knowledge to give you true support.

Coping Cuts For Crown Moulding

Something else our crown molding jigs did. They did to crown molding what the touch tone did to dialing a phone. Our crown molding tools did to crown molding what the dishwasher did to washing dishes. They saved time by eliminating potential headaches. One of those time savers was eliminating that tedious task of coping your crown molding. It eliminated the need to even bother having to buy another tool or some other invention that makes coping easier. Yea, yet another sub tool in your already over run plethora of tools, a tool to help your tool that helps your tool. Come on, let us just eliminate the need. With the measurement of the Mite-r-Gauge and then the perfect cuts made by our crown molding jigs a coping cut on the inside corner of any crown molding is a waste of time. If the other argument of settling is your reasoning for using the cope cut on crown molding do what we do, an instant glue or even a wood glue. You own that already and the instant glue works in seconds to create a true bond.

If you are a purist and find comfort in the cope, then by all means, please continue to cope and do not think we are picking on you. That is not our intention. Our intention is to make your life easy. Enjoy it and have fun, don't be frustrated and waste it. We want to make the project(and your life) go as smooth as possible.