Recent Posts Tagged With 'finish carpentry'

• Baby Girl Nursery With Chair Rail

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 04:00 in interior decorating, finish carpentry, painting and finishing

  Baby Nursery with Chair Rail The following is a popular article that ran a couple years ago. Adding chair rails to rooms can be a great way to turn an ordinary room into an architectural pleasing... This is a brief summary of the article. For the fu...

• Farmer’s Porch Lattice Skirt

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 06:00 in finish carpentry, porches, exterior siding and trim

  Farmers Porch With Lattice Skirt The farmer’s porch in the adjacent photo has a complete pvc lattice skirt around the bottom of the porch framing. Raised porches look best with some sort of... This is a brief summary of the article. For the fu...

• How To Install Simple Window Casing

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 16:11 in finish carpentry

  Butt and Pass Window Trim Trimming out a window can be quite simple if you stick to the basics. The simplest window casing consists of flat stock trim with butted corners (butt and pass). Butted window ...Subscribers to Home Construction Improvement ...

• Stair Stringer Calculator

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 13:29 in finish carpentry, framing, rise and run, minimum tread depth, stair stringer calculator

  Stair Stringer Calculator – Spreadsheet Recently I wrote an article about how to build a set of stairs. Since then I’ve had inquiries about some type of calculator or spreadsheet to quickly calculate the rise and ...Subscribers to Home Co...

• Colonial Style Fluted Window & Door Trim

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 10:23 in windows, design, doors, finish carpentry

  Window & Door Trim Today’s mass produced homes rarely use architecturally pleasing window and door trim. Most homes today are built with a very basic colonial trim with mitered joints. Obviously this is done in an ...Subscribers to Home Con...

• Ordering Walk-In Closet Materials From EasyClosets.com

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 19:32 in design, interior decorating, storage, finish carpentry

  Walk-In Closet Design-Build Project We are currently working on a walk-in closet design-build project for our master bedroom suite. The first step of the project was selecting a color pallete for the walk-in closet and painting. ...Subscribers to Hom...

• Miter Joint Shrinkage Explanation

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 17:25 in finish carpentry

  Miter Joint Shrinkage I’m sure everyone has seen a miter joint that has opened up similar to the one in this image. I’d like to explain why this type of miter joint shrinkage happens so that ...Subscribers to Home Construction Improvement...

• How To Trim Pocket Door Jambs

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 09:01 in doors, finish carpentry

  Pocket Doors Pocket doors are a really great space saver and they’ve become extremely popular with today’s floor plans. Pocket doors slide on an overhead rail system that allows the door to be slid into a ...Subscribers to Home Constructi...