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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.
How to Install Crown Molding Around Corners
General contractor Tom Silva shows host Kevin O’Connor a tip for installing crown molding around awkward wall angles.
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.
How to Remove Baseboards
Need to remove your existing baseboards? Follow these steps to easily remove them without damaging your wall or flooring.
Low-Maintenance Exterior Material Options for Your Home
They may cost more up front, but these low-maintenance materials save later on frequent repainting and replacement—without skimping on curb appeal.
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.
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.
How to Hang Crown Molding on Kitchen Cabinets
Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva installs crown molding on kitchen cabinets with full overlay doors.
How to Install Door Trim
Whether you’re installing a new door or changing the door’s trim for aesthetic reasons, read on to learn how to trim a door yourself.
All About Moldings
From Arts and Crafts to Colonial to Victorian, moldings go a long way to establishing the style of a house. These trim treatments create transitions that please the eye and make a style statement.
Carlisle | Polyurethane Moldings and Millwork
Kevin meets millwork specialist Mark White at his showroom that specializes in high-density polyurethane trim
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.
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.
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
How to Install Wood Crown Molding
Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva shares his tips and techniques for installing decorative crown molding
How to Install Interior Window Trim
This Old House general contractor Tom Silva installs interior window trim using hand tools
Pro Tips for Painting Trim
Give trim the special treatment it deserves
How to Replicate Molding Profiles
This Old House general contractor Tom Silva reveals various means and methods of making your own authentic reproduction moldings
How to Dress Up a Hollow-Core Door
Apply panel molding to a featureless door to create a grand entrance to any room
39 Crown Molding Design Ideas
Steal these ceiling trim ideas to add more style to your rooms.
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.
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
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.
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.
All About Crown Molding
Highlighting the transition between walls and ceiling, this decorative trim adds character to even the plainest rooms
Beautify Your Home With Crown Molding and Other Trim Upgrades
Add character to plain rooms with crown molding, baseboards, wainscoting and more
Make a Mantel from Molding Profiles
This mantel is actually made up of numerous molding profiles applied one on top of the other to create depth, shadow lines, and architectural interest. Here's a look at how the various pieces come together
Easy Crown Molding
TOH technical editor Mark Powers demonstrates how to install foam crown molding using nails and drywall finish.
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.
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
13 Easy Door Surround Profiles From Stock Molding
Mix and match off-the-shelf trim to create stylish door casings
How to Install a Fireplace Mantel
Learn how to install a wood mantel on a brick fireplace.