Grand Finishes for Carpentry: Home Installation Projects 101

by Matt Nikitas

Whether you want to learn tricks of the trade or just the basics, Grand Finishes for Carpentry can help make your home carpentry project a fun, simple, and rewarding experience. In this easy-to-understand instruction manual, Matt Nikitas takes both the unskilled beginner and the seasoned pro through molding installation, with emphasis on each step of the process and the tools it takes to give you the home you've always wanted. Beginning with the five...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312263317
• ISBN13: 9780312263317
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Thorough and Easy to Follow

This book had thorough and very straight-forward instructions for basics like crown and base molding and more complicated things like wainscoting and windows and doors. We used it to put in a wainscoting trim in our dining room: there was no bull or misleading steps. We followed the author's instructions exactly and had no surprises! It all went in great! Our neighbors think I should become a carpenter now! It's a wonderful book for a beginner.

inspiring project

I know very little about working with wood or the tools needed and GRAND FINISHES FOR CARPENTRY was a perfect choice for me. It didn't insult my intelligence and was never condescending yet explained everything so clearly. I have two other molding books but this one pointed out several of the problems I might have encountered, whereas the others glossed over them. Though not a lot of pictures I thought there were just enough for me to accomplish creating and installing my own wainscoting in our diningroom. My wife even helped, and we both enjoyed the whole process.

Grand Finishes For Moldings

I was surprised to read the earlier negative reviews. I found the instruction thorough and very clear: I've put in base molding before but got a lot out of the crown installation step-by-steps. The book's VOICE OF EXPERIENCES had many helpful hints that added a little levity to my projects but also pointed out several pitfalls I might not have ordinarilly known about. This is the third book of Nikitas's that I've purchased and I use them ("GRAND FINISHES FOR WALLS AND FLOORS" and "GRAND FINISHES FOR TILE") religiously as reference books. Definitely a keeper.