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15 Coffered-Ceiling Ideas
Design ideas, tips, and techniques for a unique coffered ceiling in kitchens, living rooms, basements and more.
Simplify Ceiling-Strapping Installation
Learn an alternative method for placing strapping on rough joists for a drywall ceiling.
Tips for a Coffered Ceiling
Cover up an old ceiling with beams and new drywall
Lightwaver Laser Panels
Cost: $78 and up for stock products; custom products must be quoted
How to Secure Old Plaster in a Pinch
Here's an ingenious way to stabilize sagging plaster with mechanical support from a custom-made dimple washer.
How to Install Crown Molding Alone
Chuck Miller shares three tips to make crown-molding installation go smoothly.
Insulation T-lift
I hate installing fiberglass insulation, especially overhead. Faced with this task, I reach for the forklike tool shown in the drawings below. Made of 2x2s screwed and glued at their intersection…
Embedding Drywall Corners
To get inside corners right, the tape must be tight.
Taping and Mudding Inside Corners
For drywall novices, there's nothing more challenging—or messy—than finishing inside corners
How to Build a Coffered Ceiling with Box Beams
Built of plywood and MDF, these beams go up quickly, resist movement, take paint well, and even level a wavy ceiling.

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