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Molding & Trim How To & DIY

Improve the value of your home by discovering our molding step-by-step tips & ideas.

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How to Install Shoe Molding

Do you want to hide unsightly gaps between the walls and floors or add a nice extra detail to your baseboard moldings? This slender trim is an easy way to get you that finished look.
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How to Install Stacked Stone Veneer on a Fireplace

Ask This Old House mason, Mark McCullough, helps a homeowner update her concrete block, wood burning fireplace with a stacked stone veneer and a slab of stone.
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How to Make Decorative Roof Brackets

Decorative cedar brackets are often found under an overhang like a balcony or a roof. Some brackets may be structural, but in this case, these ornamental brackets are simply decorative and are part of the home’s original features. Watch as This Old House Host Kevin O’Connor meets with Builder Charlie Silva in his shop while he makes brackets himself.
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How to Fix Baseboards with a Repair Patch

It’s easier to patch imperfections and holes in baseboard than to replace the entire piece. In this video, This Old House’s Tom Silva patches a baseboard using a Dutchman—a wood repair patch that is glued into a custom-cut hole.
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How to Create Simulated Panels with Molding

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva creates a simulated stile and rail wainscoting on a dining room wall by using base cap molding.
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How to Match Historic Molding

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O’Connor look at ways to match historic molding.
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How to Bisect Angles for Cutting Miters

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows a quick and accurate way to cut perfect-fit miters
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How to Install Wood Crown Molding

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shares his tips and techniques for installing decorative crown molding
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How to Install Interior Window Trim

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva installs interior window trim using hand tools
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Pro Tips for Painting Trim

Give trim the special treatment it deserves
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How to Replicate Molding Profiles

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva reveals various means and methods of making your own authentic reproduction moldings
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How to Dress Up a Hollow-Core Door

Apply panel molding to a featureless door to create a grand entrance to any room
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Decorative Crown Molding

In this step-by-step video, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows the best way to install decorative trim to the joint between wall and ceiling.
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How to Install Kitchen Cabinet Crown Molding

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shares his secrets for producing tight-fitting mitered corner joints on crown molding
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How to Choose Interior Molding

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva discusses some of the many options available for trimming out the interior of a room.
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How to Cut Crown Molding Inside Corners

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to enhance a room with easy-to-install crown molding using plastic clips and caulking to finish.
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All About Crown Molding

Highlighting the transition between walls and ceiling, this decorative trim adds character to even the plainest rooms
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Beautify Your Home With Crown Molding and Other Trim Upgrades

Add character to plain rooms with crown molding, baseboards, wainscoting and more
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How to Cut Crown Molding

Tom Silva shares some tricks of the trade for cutting crown molding precisely to create a scarf joint and outside corners.
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How to Cope a Joint for Crown Molding

In this how-to video, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shows how to cut tight-fitting inside corner joints
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13 Easy Door Surround Profiles From Stock Molding

Mix and match off-the-shelf trim to create stylish door casings
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How to Install a Fireplace Mantel

Learn how to install a wood mantel on a brick fireplace.
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Saving Old Trim

How to pry it off the wall in one piece
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How to Install Crown Molding: Cut, Cope & Hang

From measuring to cutting to coping, discover how to easily install crown molding and add sculptural interest to your rooms.
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Mending Miter Joints

Coax your baseboard's outside corners back into place with this simple trick
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Splicing Molding

A single length of molding spanning a wall is best, but when you have to use a second piece, use this technique to hide the gap
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Top 10 Repair Questions

Expert answers to the most frequently asked home maintenance questions
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How to Put In Crown Molding

Tom Silva's step-by-step guide to putting up an ornamental ceiling border
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Removing Baseboard

Get vinyl baseboard off the wall without ruining the surface
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Cutting Trim for Square Casings

Make the right cut for out-of-square windows and doors