Faux columns

Our new home has two round columns in the dining room that were super heavily textured and outdated. We came up with an easy update for interior faux columns and I take back everything bad I ever said about painting with white!

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I created a decorative column on each side of my entry doorway, topped with a pediment. Now I'm going to show you how to build decorative columns.

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I have this plain hallway that I wanted to dress up with some faux columns I started with some 5.5" MDF and then sent it through the table saw with the blade at 45 degrees so the two corners would meet at a corner. Then I marked where I needed to cut the baseboard with my muli-tool Then I used my compressor and nail gun to nail the MDF to the wall and added some narrow corner moulding on all three sides. I also put some 1/4" wood on the top as sort of a topper. The corner moulding is 3/4"…

I had this awkward small corner to fill in my new bedroom, and some of you suggested a decorative column. I loved the idea, and jokingly suggested to John we get one of these from Restoration Hardware: It was a joke, of course, because those columns cost between $500 and $600 each. YeeeeahNO. John took a good long look at that photo, though, and said, "I could make one of those for $50." My response? "YOU'RE ON." John's initial design involved routing a lot of tiny wooden trim pieces, but…

I have this plain hallway that I wanted to dress up with some faux columns I started with some 5.5" MDF and then sent it through t...