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Home Improvement > Moldings & Wood Trim > How to Install Wainscoting and Chair Rail

Learn how to cut miter and scarf joints to install wainscoting, chair rails, baseboards, and quarter round molding.

Use scarf joints to join two baseboards into a single length when one baseboard is too short to reach the corner. You can cut them in the same way as miters, in terms of wood orientation to saw blade, but the two 45-degree angle cuts on the adjacent boards must slope at opposing angles--one undercut and one overcut--to overlap invisibly when they both lie flat.

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