Let’s talk about the inside corners – the spot where DIY dreams go to die. If you have ever tried to miter two pieces of crown molding in your Twin Cities living room, you already know those inside corners never lie. Thats why professional trim carpenters in Blaine and Lino Lakes prefer to pull out the fancy tools and cope corners instead of mitering them.
Coping means cutting one piece of material to perfectly envelop the profile of the adjacent piece. Sounds tricky? Yeah, it can be but it also hides the fact that your home does not have perfectly square 90 degree corners (looking at you, tract housing developments in Andover). The result is tight, seamless joints that stay clean through our humid summers and our dry winters.
Mitered inside corners might sound good on paper and your DIY husband will likely tell you that he “Thinks it will be fine” but in the real world, professional trim carpenters in Minneapolis know that coping your crown molding is the difference between “meh” and “masterpiece”. Don’t throw away your weekends fighting with gaps – hire a pro who spent years learning to cope interior trim upside down and left handed in their sleep.