If you’re looking for an inexpensive way to improve your home, crown molding adds an elegant touch without breaking the bank. The addition of crown molding gives any room an automatic upgrade, making it appear more refined than those without it. Bookcases, kitchen cabinets and doorways can also get a makeover by adding some crown molding. To learn how to add crown molding around your home, read these 24 blog entries.

 

Walls

Many older homes have crown molding, but newer homes rarely come equipped with it. While a lack of crown molding gives a room a more contemporary feel, if you want to add an elegant, polished touch then crown molding is the way to go. To learn how to add crown molding to the walls in your room, take a look at these six blog articles.

• Adding Elegance to Your Walls with Trim
• Crown Molding—Adding a Touch of Glamour to Your Home Decor
• Crowning Achievement
• Transform from Standard to Inventive: Design Ideas to Enhance Your Space
• Crown Molding in Dining Room w/ Tutorial
• Homes.com Experts Share How-to Install Crown Molding

Bookcases

You can buy crown molding fairly inexpensively at home improvement stores, and adding it to a bookcase instantly transforms a plain piece of furniture to something with a little more character. Adding crown molding is simple enough for a do-it-yourselfer to do, and the most important thing to do is measure, measure, measure!  For tips on how to successfully figure out how to cut and measure crown molding, look at these six blog posts.

• Adding Crown Molding to the Top of Bookcases
• Semi-DIY Shelves
• DIY Built-In Bookcase Tutorial
• How To: Add Beveled Crown Molding
• Built In Bookcases {DIY IKEA Billy Bookshelves}
• Adding Crown Molding to a Bookcase

Kitchen Cabinets

Many kitchens are equipped with cabinets that end flush against the ceiling; by adding crown molding to the top of the cabinets you can give the kitchen a higher end, more finished appearance. The process for adding crown molding to kitchen cabinets is very similar to adding crown molding to a bookcase.  You have to have a surface to nail the crown molding to, so it’s often necessary to install a scrap piece of wood to the top of the cabinets.  This scrap can be as small as a one by one inch piece of trim.  Take a look at these six blog entries to learn more about how to install crown molding to your kitchen cabinets and to see what a difference it can make in the appearance of your kitchen.

• How to Add Trim to Cabinets
• How to Add Crown Molding to Kitchen Cabinets
• I Dub Thee King Pantry
• How to Install Kitchen Cabinet Crown Molding
• Trim Ideas for Kitchen Cabinets
• Installing Ceiling Crown Molding on a Kitchen Cabinet

Doors

By adding crown molding above a doorway you can make an outside entrance look grander or an inside doorway look richer. You can even add a piece of plywood above the door first and install the crown molding above that to give the room more architectural detail.  If you would like to try adding molding to your doorways, check out these six blog articles.

• Making Your Doors Pretty with Molding (and a How-To)
• {Crown Molding}
• Front Door Miracle
• Crown Molding, Baseboards, Molding French Door Will Add Value at Your House
• Creative Door Trim
• Door Crown Molding

Author Bio:

Jeralyn Nelson is the content editor for “housesittingjobs.com“. She loves writing article on interior decorations. You can check out her recently published article at “http://www.housesittingjobs.com/blog/24-blogs-showcasing-diy-methods-for-adding-crown-molding-to-your-home/“.