{"id":104,"date":"2023-02-23T18:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/?p=104"},"modified":"2023-11-03T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:10:37","slug":"installing-stacked-crown-molding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/installing-stacked-crown-molding\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Stacked Crown Molding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For this kitchen design chose tall cabinets and a custom crown molding stack. We wanted to take advantage of the nine foot ceilings, which were previously lowered by sixteen inches. This allowed for increased storage, and a built in look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crown molding “stack” was a kit purchased with the cabinets. The kit came with a rough 1×2 as a backer\/nailing strip to attach it, but they were extremely warped and low grade wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made up a little test block to familiarize myself with the assembly and make a few decisions on placement and attachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first step in the buildup provides a point of attachment to the cabinet and won’t be seen. I ended up buying 1×4 pine to replace the supplied 1×2 and got better lumber since I only needed a few boards. The next vertical piece that I installed will show. Those came in 1×6 painted hardwood that had to be ripped down on a table saw to approximately the distance from the cabinet to the ceiling with a little room to spare that will get hidden by the angled crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The corner cabinets required some very tricky miter cuts. After dry fitting, I glued them and nailed them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the angled crown molding I cut the miters by placing it against the fence of my chop saw as it would be installed up against the ceiling. This makes some of the math easier, but I still had to flip things around for certain cuts and honestly my brain hurts just thinking about it. Luckily I ordered enough material to account for a few mistakes. I used my 15 gauge brad nailer for the bigger stuff. The two strips of smaller decorative bead molding were installed later with a 23 gauge pin nailer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this will be white on white I am going to rely on painters caulk, but I did try to minimize the gaps. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For this kitchen design chose tall cabinets and a custom crown molding stack. We wanted to take advantage of the nine foot ceilings, which were previously lowered by sixteen inches. This allowed for increased storage, and a built in look. The crown molding “stack” was a kit purchased with the cabinets. The kit came with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-remodeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danrivard.com\/restoration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}