Hanging A Cornice Box

You will need at least two people to make hanging the box less cumbersome.

Hanging a cornice box.

Now attach a d hook on the edge of each anchor block. 8 attach d hooks. Thread the curtain rings or grommets through the curtain rod and hang it from the supports inside the cornice. How to hang the cornice board.

As i mentioned i have tried different hanging techniques over the years including using d rings on the back of the side pieces. If necessary add wall anchors and fasten in place with the screws provided. With the punch tool or a pencil we made a punch through the bracket holes where the screws were going to. Yuck i strongly dislike visible hanging hardware.

These are the d hooks i used and work great. If i were to make another cornice board i would attach the block of wood after step 3 and screw through the outside of the cornice board. It won t be secure enough to just hang the cornice box on the 1 x 2 strip. Center the cornice over your window and screw in place with 8 x 3 in wood screws.

While holding your cornice box level centered and flush against the wall with the l bracket on top of the block of wood make a mark where the l bracket meets the block of wood. You will attach your window cornice box by hanging it on and screwing it in to your 1 x 2 strip which you have mounted to the wall above your window. When we were ready to hang the cornice box one of us held it up from the center on our step ladder and aligned the sides to the lines we had drawn in step 5. You need to screw down through the top of the cornice box in to the 1 x 2 strip at.

Make sure you get the heavy duty ones to make sure it holds the weight with no problem. The problem with this. Take the cornice box down and predrill a pilot hole.