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Cornice Slide Shows

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Making a Scalloped Ruffled Cornice
Here is are some pictures of a cornice that I recently finished. The first picture is the drawing the decorator gave me, and the last picture is the finished cornice. The decorator supplied me with a paper pattern, shown in the slide show (see below link):

Install a Cornice

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How to Install a Cornice

Attaching to Walls
   the cornices are generally attached to the walls with "L" brackets, which are really the same as the mending places, except bent at the middle. The L-brackets are first attached to the wall, and then the cornices are just "set" on them, and the screw put screws through the bracket into the bottom of the headrail.

Joining Cornice Faceboards

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Joining the Face Board
  About joining the face board (plywood, OSB, etc.) Over the years, I have tried joining the cornice faceboards in various ways. I used to use mending plates as Agnes said. Since then, with time and experimenting, I have settled on just butting the pieces together and  running a row of staples up and down both sides. I staple it so that one leg of the staple goes into each piece being joined, like this

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