Completed Crown

Your eyes do not deceive you; that piece is coped and mitered.  Possibly the first in history.

After finishing the crown molding in the bedroom, we still had to do the living room, and since we were tired of the molding sitting on the floor in there, we decided to finally mount it.

It started with more masking tape to mark studs.

Followed by mounting the molding, always with perfect corners.

Then we patched the nail holes.

After that, we touched up the paint and were done.  It turned out really well.  Chrissy is particularly pleased with the area around the fireplace brick.