Art Mulder
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(I've NEVER done a mantle before...)
My good friends have a gas fireplace, and they picked up a painted (MDF) mantle/surround from the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store to go with it. I said that I would get it mounted for them.
I think I've got the mounting planned out okay. (fasten some blocks to the wall, set the mantle on them, and nail/screw from the sides into these blocks)
But there is one rather glaring problem. This old mantle must have been mounted in a corner because there is a 45-degree cut out of the back of both sides.
Here, I doodled it up in Sketchup...
(not an exact sketch, the mantle looks better than that. I just focused on the basic shape and then putting in the crown molding that wraps under the top.)
See how the top and the crown molding is cut back at a 45-degree angle?
So... anyone have some ideas?
First, we considered just trying to find a match for the molding and patch it... but I doubt I'll get an exact match, and so it'll show. So right now I'm thinking of putting in some sort of an oversized block-- make it a feature rather than an problem -- but I'm not sure just what to do there, and how to make it fit around the existing crown molding.
(yes, I'm trying to keep this fairly simple)
My good friends have a gas fireplace, and they picked up a painted (MDF) mantle/surround from the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store to go with it. I said that I would get it mounted for them.
I think I've got the mounting planned out okay. (fasten some blocks to the wall, set the mantle on them, and nail/screw from the sides into these blocks)
But there is one rather glaring problem. This old mantle must have been mounted in a corner because there is a 45-degree cut out of the back of both sides.
Here, I doodled it up in Sketchup...
(not an exact sketch, the mantle looks better than that. I just focused on the basic shape and then putting in the crown molding that wraps under the top.)
See how the top and the crown molding is cut back at a 45-degree angle?
So... anyone have some ideas?
First, we considered just trying to find a match for the molding and patch it... but I doubt I'll get an exact match, and so it'll show. So right now I'm thinking of putting in some sort of an oversized block-- make it a feature rather than an problem -- but I'm not sure just what to do there, and how to make it fit around the existing crown molding.
(yes, I'm trying to keep this fairly simple)