Setting up a Nursery, Part 5

The last major task of setting up the nursery has been completed! We installed the crown molding last weekend and put a couple coats of paint on it throughout the week. This was the most challenging project of all, but I got through it thanks to the information and tools from compoundmiter.com. I bought the book and a angle measuring tool and although I couldn't get it perfect, I think it came out a lot better than if I had just tried to wing it.

My lessons learned from the whole process:

• Make the templates! The book talked about cutting templates before you begin, and I thought why bother if there's plenty of pictures in the book? Lets just say I had a couple backwards cuts from accidentally looking at the wrong picture in the book... I'm going to be cutting some templates out of my spare pieces :)


• Write the measurements down on the back of the molding. Normally when doing these kinds of projects I can measure a cut and keep that figure in my head until I get to the saw, but with this project I kept on having to try and remember a linear measurement, a corner angle and sometimes a ceiling slope and by the time I was finished following the charts for the miter angles, the linear measurement was partially forgotten.

Everything else from here on out will be just the furnishings and decorations, so next up will be pictures and a video of the finished room!