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My Little Crown Moulding Support Community
By leelefever on March 02, 2004 - 10:36am
In May of 2003, my fiancée and I put up crown moulding in our bedroom. I blogged the process on my personal weblog at leelefever.com with pictures and descriptions, just for fun. Soon after I posted it, I noticed I was getting a lot of hits to that page and did a little research.
I titled the post “Crown Moulding Installation†and I soon realized that Google searches for “Crown Moulding Installationâ€(google search) produced my site at the #1 position. This has been true for the last half of 2003 and the first part of this year.
Because of this Google ranking, I get between 50 and 100 people coming to this entry each day. What is really interesting to me is the technical support discussion that is occurring in the comments of the entry. On a weekly basis, people come through and ask a question about crown moulding and myself or someone else will try to answer it. So far there have been over 30 comments. Here’s a recent comment:
Lee, thanks so much for the encouragement. You were right on. The project was not at all difficult and it came out just beautifully. For me, the caulking at the end was the most painstaking but I am very particular so it had to be perfect. Thanks again.
Of course, I’m no home improvement expert and I’ve been reminded many times that my pictures show that we actually hung the moulding upside down. I’ve warned readers that just because I have a web site doesn’t mean I know what I’m doing.
I think this is a testament to weblogs and their ability to appeal to small and finite niche. I’m not an expert and it obvious on the site. There are plenty of non-experts out there trying to hang moulding themselves. By finding a weblog entry by obvious amateurs, the other amateurs felt at home discussing the basics of their project with peers.
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We have the same crown molding in our bedrooms, and I chose to install exactly the way you did -- upside down, even though the contractor told me it was not the way to do it.
To me, it made our 8-foot ceilings look much higher, and I'm very happy with it.
You did a beautiful job on your installation.
Hang it the way YOU Want!
I am also a Do it yourselfer and i will never claim to know everything or anything for that matter. I tackled crown molding in my living room by myself and after numerous cuts and trying to figure out how the heck to make the cuts right, i finally figured it out and kept inside and outside corner pieces for templates. I never knew there was a "right" way to hang the molding. I looked at the pieces, held up a small piece to the ceiling and thought it looked good upside down. I would like to know who decided that it can only go 1 way? I want his name and preferrably his address. I would like to speak to this higher power of the crown molding world. I'm happy with how my crown came out and more importantly, so is my wife. Keep up the good work you two. Great minds think alike, and outside the box!
Agreed!
I did mine upside down because I liked the shadow line better and the one I used looked more historically-accurate when upside down. Most people are mishmashing styles in their homes anyway, so sometimes you have to break the rules to make it look good.