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After choosing the perfect wall color, many default to choosing a white trim paint without giving it a second thought...
Perhaps surprisingly, there is a lot more technology and thought behind paint and finishing brushes for trim than mee...
Typical Range: $720 to $1,300 National Average: $1,170Nothing ages the appearance of a home in quite the same way ...
Q: A friend recently came for dinner with her new beau, a real estate agent, who remarked that if we ever want to sel...
Staple guns are one of those long-standing, classic tools that all DIYers can use. They aid in reupholstering furnitu...
A coping saw is a handy tool for DIY woodworkers and professional carpenters alike. The standard coping saw employs a...
The trim installation stage of any interior project can be tremendously rewarding. Baseboard and crown molding can tu...
Paired with baseboard and stained or painted to match your trim, shoe molding (also known as “base shoe”) is a small,...
Q: The white oil-based paint coat on my office cabinet has yellowed in recent months. Is it possible to reverse the y...
We were probably right to leave behind many hallmarks of yesterday's home, but it's time to reconsider these 15 once-popular details, not for their novelty, but f...
Bring out your home’s best features—and hide its flaws—with these trendy trim colors.
Picture rails are 1½-inch to 2-inch strips of molding that adhere to walls and run horizontally around the room, typi...
Cove or crown, batten or baseboard? Differentiate between the types of molding most commonly used in homes today—and discover which style might be right for your ...
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Q: I’m about to start a painting project and have noticed that paints labeled for use on trim seem to be pricier than...
Q: We're gearing up to repaint my living room, but it’s been awhile since I’ve picked up a brush. Friends and family ...
Q: A few wooden surfaces in my home interior could use painting. What’s the best paint for wood—water- or oil-based? ...
Prepping to paint your walls a new shade? While you may understand how essential priming is when it comes to hiding t...
In a room with wood-paneled walls—particularly if that wood is a veneer—your instinct may be to start fresh, either b...
The trim around a door frame—also known as doorway casing—is installed first and foremost to conceal unsightly constr...
Flexible and versatile, this inexpensive material can prevent more expensive home issues down the road.
It’s the crowning glory of interior design: stylish overhead molding that adds architectural character while producin...
Construction pros and savvy do-it-yourselfers who have purchased a Trim Puller for a demo job know how quickly, cleanly, and efficiently it removes and salvages t...
Removing trim is one of the peskiest aspects of a deconstruction job. Rotating through and manipulating various clunk...
Whether you're planning on replacing a floor or simply wanting to change up the style of trim in a room, your project...
Walls framed by baseboards and crown molding exude unmistakable character and polish, most notably in historical home...
Not every paint job ends with a perfect “after.” Here's how to fix the most glaring painting mistakes and achieve near perfection.
Of all the many types of molding installed to put the finishing touch on a room, there's none more common than basebo...
In any remodel, the average homeowner tends to focus mainly on the end result, seldom understanding that overall succ...
Crown molding brings elegance to nearly any space. Whether you choose to use it around windows and doorways or to line the top of the kitchen cabinets, crown mold...
Sometimes the simplest updates make the most impact in a room—and chair rail molding is no exception. More than an ea...
Exterior trim performs a couple of roles. Besides adding a decorative touch, it seals up corners and edges to keep ou...
If you’re looking to dress up the interior of your home but are working on a limited budget, why not consider adding ...
As you go about your spring cleaning routine, take a few minutes to inspect the condition of your wood furniture and ...
The term "wainscoting" refers to any type of paneling that covers the lower portion—usually the lower third—of an int...
Chair rail molding adds a tasteful touch to rooms, especially when combined with wainscoting or crown molding. But if...
Even if you spend hours washing the floor, dusting furniture, and vacuuming the nooks and crannies around your home, ...
Wood paneling certainly has a place in the home. It can make a space feel traditional and warm, but it can also look ...
Protecting woodwork before you paint (or do other work) around it will save you time and money later. Trim protectio...
A decorative wood valance adds charm to your house. You can make one yourself. Here's how. Copy a pattern, or create...
Looking for ways to add character and interest to your interior? Use trim and molding! Check out the various ways you can add wall trim to amp up your home's design.
The lost art of Victorian plaster detailing is making a comeback in a new form. Modern manufacturers are finding way...
A striking dimensional finishing treatment, board and batten, is enjoying renewed popularity, with homeowners install...
To achieve a Victorian look on an interior wall, try a beadboard wainscot. You can buy beadboard at your local lumb...
Dress up the rooms in your house with a variety of custom moldings. These moldings are available in many historic p...
You can dress up a room by installing crown molding along the ceiling. Here are some tips to keep in mind. Always pl...
Q: We are thinking about installing beadboard in our bathroom. How do I install it so that it looks at home in the ro...
By definition, a molding is simply a strip of wood (or, occasionally, of plaster or other material) that is used for ...
Custom paneling has always been a luxury item. It is labor and cost intensive, since creating a profile means multipl...
Molding profiles tend to represent eras in building design. As architectural details, moldings often serve to pinpoin...
Installing new trim should be easy, right? Just measure the boards, cut the miters, and nail the trim in place. Well,...
Install wood paneling in any room to inject architectural detail, warmth, and character into your home. Traditionally...
If you're looking for ways to dress up your dining room for the holidays, nothing works better than some good, old-fa...
If your home doesn't have the style and panache you wish it had, adding crown molding can help. Listen to BOB VILA ON...
When industrial sawmills started cranking it out in the late 19th century, beadboard came on the scene as a quick and...
Wood. It makes up so much of our homes, from the framing to the flooring we walk on. And it appears in all kinds of f...
Looking to learn how to paint trim? It's not so different from painting other surfaces in a home. Your method will va...
I live in an old house that was virtually stripped of its moldings in the 1970s. It was an act of modernization, ever...
The Merits of Crown MoldingIf your home doesn’t have the style you wish it had, adding crown molding can help. It can...
While the house is being dried out, fiber-cement siding is put in place, as well as a cellular PVC trim that has the look of wood boards without any of the hassles.
Bob talks with Robert Rainey of PJ Overhead Door as the new and improved garage door panels and tracks are installed on the Norwell home.
Bob tours the front vestibule, highlighting the beautiful stencil work done by artist Kim Sweet. He explains how small touches can bring back the feel of an 1890s...
Bob reviews the progress of his western red cedar custom fence, designed to provide privacy and block the carport from the neighbors’ view.
Bob joins carpenter David Ives, who is installing the paneling in the master bedroom closet, and then checks in on artist Kim’s faux finishing work on the walls.
Bob reviews the Victorian design elements of his front-corner porch and the interior columns that echo the exterior ones, and then watches the turn-of-the-century...
Inspired by designs found in the Isaac Bell historic house, paneling is installed on Bob’s entrance door to the living room. Bob looks at the completed tiled show...
Bob takes a tour of the Isaac Bell historic house in Newport, RI, exploring one of the finest examples of the Shingle Style to be found anywhere.
Bob helps carpenter Bob Ryley create an elaborate five-piece cornice molding in the dining room.
In the dining room, carpenter Bob Ryley installs a chair rail and works with carpenter Danny Ruffini on the glass doors that will be added to the corner cupboard—...
Furniture maker Todd Allen builds a staircase from scratch, which will run from the basement to the kitchen, using a technique that is a couple of centuries old.
A double window is installed in the kitchen, which will let in a lot of sunlight and give a view of the back yard.
Experts review the replication of old house moldings and the use of Western Red Cedar for house trim and boards.
An old basement window is replaced, and experts explain the costs of the Owens Corning finishing system.
Leslie Chapman-Henderson from the Federal Alliance for Safe Housing (FLASH) discusses storm-resistant soffit details with Bob. Todd Davison from FEMA is with Bob ...
Bob puts in a Mahogany windowsill that's been precut with a cleat and bevel to make the installation easier. He also helps install Poplar floor molding and observ...
Pella windows are being set into the modular home, one section of which is being sided with a board-and-batten product from Georgia-Pacific.
Bob surveys the modular home project in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, paying special attention to the products used on the exterior of the house.
Bob Ryley tackles window trim in the master bedroom of the new Colonial.
Brent Hull, of Hull Historical Millwork, is on location to help with the installation of the dining room's crown molding.
Darcie Miller from Wellborn Cabinets is on the site of the modern Colonial project house to talk about the kitchen's design.
John Wellborn (from Wellborn Cabinets) and carpenter Paul Anderson join Bob for the kitchen cabinet installation.
Paul Anderson attaches pre-finished crown molding around the kitchen cabinets in the modern Colonial project house.
Bob returns to Winterthur, the historic du Pont estate, to tour the Tappahannock Room.
Bob tours one of Winterthur's most ornate rooms, the Blackwell Parlor.
Bob visits the McLellan House in Portland, ME, part of the Portland Museum of Art.
Interior designer Leslie Curtis shows off another of her decorating ideas in the dining room.
Bob Ryley and carpenter Pat Cloutier trim out two banks of four double-hung windows in the sunny dining area of the Vermont farmhouse.
Latex paint is being applied on the exterior of the Vermont farmhouse by workers using airless sprayers.
Bob checks in with Ryley, who is trimming out the two windows over the vanity in the first floor master bath.
Bob visits with carpenter Mark Fortunati, who is building a traditional-looking staircase in the foyer.
The front room of the Manhattan Brownstone is getting its finishing touches as prefabricated oversize cove molding is installed at the ceiling.
Bob is outside the Manhattan Brownstone to show off the refurbished facade of the building and then goes inside to show us the completed living room of the floor-...
Bob meets with Dave Probst (from Louisiana Pacific) to learn about LP's Smart System Products and Lisa Francis (from the Engineered Wood Association) joins to wat...
Bob helps carpenter Bob Ryley install trim on the back porch of the Habitat for Humanity house in Yonkers, NY.
Decorator B. Smith paint a lavender stripe pattern on a bedroom wall.
Work has begun on the exterior finish. Contractors are installing the cedar trim, casing, and grounds, and continue on to begin installing the clapboard siding.
Carpenter Bob Ryley confers with finish carpenter Dennis DeVore about casing a window at the Mt. Pleasant house in South Carolina, near Charleston.
Carpenter Bob Ryley and the finish carpenter install interior trim in the dining room.
Bob talks with painting contractor Matt Green, who advises on painting shortcuts as he coats the window trim.
Having reviewed the progress made in the basement, Bob checks out some of the finish carpentry techniques used in applying wood moldings.
In the Virginia governor's mansion, Bob and Bob Ryley look at baseboard replicas and inspect how the space behind the baseboard is used.
Bob Ryley installs replica baseboard molding inside a room of the Virginia governor's mansion, which is under restoration.
Carpenter Bob Ryley and Greg Cowan (from Tidewater Restoration) discuss the process of restoring the antique mantelpiece.
Bob returns to the Virginia governor's mansion to see the restored mantelpiece reinstalled in the ballroom.
Bob pays a visit to the site of another unit's construction in the Roxbury development. Here, a carpenter is adding custom sills to windows.
Pat and Roger Simons, the owners of the second house in the Elmwood project, review the goals of their bathroom remodel.
Front porch restoration continues with the roof being replaced and new red cedar shingles being applied on the porch wall. Bob demonstrates the shingle weaving pr...
The newly built china cabinet is installed. The unit was constructed in several peices, so it would fit through the front door. Several final cuts and adjustments...
Bob joins carpenter Bob Ryley, who is putting sidewall shingles onto the exterior of the new addition.
Bob meets with carpenter Bob Ryley to install baseboard, then visits Paul Morse's workshop to see how specialty moldings are milled.
Bob meets with carpenter Bob Ryley to install baseboard and window casings. Time-saving techniques are discussed, as are the tricky cuts one can make to ensure a ...
Bob joins finish carpenter Mark McCullough, who, as he works, explains the process of applying trim to French patio doors and adjacent windows.
Bob surveys the plaster cornice in the project home. Water damage has ruined a large section and much of the remaining plaster needs repair. Bob and restoration c...
Bob meets with restoration contractor Richard Marks, who explains the distinction between restoration and reconstruction. He and Bob also discuss the relocation o...
Bob observers the expert plasterer add detail to the cornice, which is under reconstruction due to water damage.
Bob meets with restoration contractor Richard Marks to review the reproduction shutters that will be placed on the project house. They also visit the Withers Indu...
Bob joins restoration contractor Richard Marks in the library of the Federal-Style home to review the restoration of the mantel.
Bob helps contractor Bob Ryley install a vinyl-clad Pella window awning with pre-assembled exterior trim.
Bob takes the ferry to the island of Martha's Vineyard, MA, where he tours Oak Bluffs and soaks in the town's Victorian history.
The search for Bob's next project house ends, when he finds a small 19th-century home on a large plot of land in East Chop, a laid-back, picturesque part of the i...
Bob tours the lavish interior of Chateau-sur-Mer in Newport, RI. The entrance walls are painted canvas and the ceiling is adorned by a fresco. Hand-carved walnut ...
Contractor Bob Ryley is creating a Victorian-style breezeway using modern materials, which will bridge the old and new wings of the home.
As contractor Bob Ryley attaches the gingerbread-style verge board on one gable end of the Martha's Vineyard Victorian project, Bob remarks on the notable feature...
Bob reviews progress in the kitchen, which includes the installation of a pantry, and contractor Bob Ryley demonstrates how to build a door into a wood-paneled wa...
Bob and contractor Bob Ryley confer about adding trim to the curvilinear top edge of an arched window. After sheet lead is installed as flashing, Ryley attaches s...
Bob meets with Lynn from the Shirley-Eustis Colonial Governor's Mansion Association. Together they tour the Federal-style home, noting an Irish crystal chandelier...
Bob helps carpenter Bob Ryley apply exterior trim to the gable end dormer window. Ryley demonstrates how to avoid seams, how to transfer an angle from the roof to...
Bob tours the factory where the project house's custom crown molding is cut to custom specifications, while, back at the site, carpenter Bob Ryley struggles to in...
Refinishing the basement continues with the installation of wood paneling.
Bob and carpenter-contractor Bob Ryley review the exterior of the home, pointing out the new trellis and the new entryway. Next, they move inside to have a look ...
Due to flood plain regulations, the deck cannot be attached to the house-- it has to be free-floating. Bob helps the contractors set up the posts and joists, and ...
Bob helps contractor Al Stiles build a jig valance over the kitchen window to match the decorative style of the kitchen hutch.
Carpentry contractor Bob Ryley demonstrates how to put up the pine interior paneling in the living room.
Contractor Tom Forest repairs a hump in the dining room floor, then revives the floor’s maple finish.
General contractor Tim Berky trims out the windows with custom millwork created from a profile of the home's original trim. Bob looks at the four-panel cherry poc...
General contractor Tim Berky is completing trim on the oriel window that faces onto the deck. He begins by covering the underboard with MDO (medium density overla...
