The only areas without crown in our house are the closets. The complexity and size of the crown varies between public and private spaces though. Lots of people will but no one is paying premium for anything right now We have crown in all the public areas and the master bedroom and bath.
I wish I had included it everywhere, but keeping our costs under control required us to set priorities. Eventually, we'll add it though. I'm still trying to figure if it was worth handpainting some of the mouldings.
The buyer is keeping them and indeed painting the rooms in the same colours our designer picked. But enough other prospects turned their noses up at these touches that I wouldn't bother again. It also depends on the style of the home. Crown molding would be inappropriate in a modern or many adobe type homes and a New England saltbox and a Greek Revival would look odd using the same builder grade "Colonial" available at home centers. The products need to fit the style.
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Holiday Decor. Christmas Trees. Crown molding is usually installed so that it appears to run seamlessly around a room. It's easier to do that with foam and plaster trim because their joints are filled; they don't need to be perfect. With wood crown, filling isn't an option—cuts have to be precise so that joints are virtually invisible. That's a challenge in the real world, where corners are never exactly 90 degrees and wood fibers are constantly swelling and shrinking.
Here are two ways to keep joints tight. Coping: This technique, used only with wood crown on inside corners, involves cutting along the profile of one strip so that it fits over the face of the adjoining one.
It takes skill and time to make this cut, but it's much better than an inside miter at hiding a joint, and it's forgiving of out-of-square corners. Go here to learn how to cut copes. Corner blocks: These factory-made pieces, placed at outside and inside corners shown , eliminate the need for coping or miter cuts; the crown ends just butt up against the blocks' sides.
A slight bevel in the back of the crown ensures tight joints in out-of-square corners. Corner blocks come in different styles and can be used with any material. They do simplify joinery, but because they project slightly beyond the profile, they can interrupt a crown's continuity. TOH Pro Advice: "To minimize your view of the joints in wood crown, make sure the copes and bevel joints point away from the room's main entry, where you might otherwise see shadow lines between sections.
In a kitchen, crown molding adds dimension to upper cabinets, making them, and the room, feel taller. Capped with a 1x board, the crown above this window serves as a handsome shelf for displaying baskets in a pantry. Capping the head casing with crown gives heft and classical stature to any door or passageway. Crown is a fitting way to finish the top of a fireplace mantel. The outside corners show off the molding's shapely profile to full advantage.
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By Sal Vaglica. Pinterest Email Pocket Flipboard. Digital Studio At its essence, crown consists of an elongated S profile atop a cove. Vitals Photo by Kolin Smith How much does it cost? Stock or custom? DIY or hire a pro? How much to buy? Digital Studio Lightweight and relatively flexible, this DIY-friendly material comes in 8- to foot lengths and is installed with finishing nails. Barely-there beading of Early American trim highlights a handsome Craftsman built-in banquette and dining table.
Large-scale Early American moldings were made to match substantial kitchen cabinetry feet mimicked from a vintage dresser. The Traditional Revival crown molding in this former sunken living room isn't the only element that's seen beading.
The weighty topper highlights a beadboard ceiling chosen for its vintage cues. Expand your crown molding horizons by using it to top off other room elements. Georgian trim with dentil details along the French doors and window tops significantly up the space's design, all while echoing the complementing trim just inches above. This gracious 17th-century style is design-heavy down to the small square blocks of the dentil trim and other details.
Subtle Early American trim tops off the casing of a built-in, making the addition looks like it's always been there—even though crown molding is absent in the rest of the area. Lose a drop ceiling and there's no sense in skimping on the crown molding! Small-scale Early American trim draws the eye upward and makes up for all that new ceiling room.
Gorgeous coffering serves as more than adornment. Designers added the feature to help preserve the pristine plaster ceiling from future water damage and cracks. Plus, the additional surface next to the beams allows for an ornate profile.
Bold Greek Revival trim tops off creamy yellow cabinets in this cheerful kitchen. Kitchen cabinet-topping crown molding lends cohesion to a room full of disparate features like the ceramic-tile backsplash and heart pine floors. Flat-front molding with few flourishes—typical of simple Craftsman trim—lets the handsome mahogany mantel and its geometric features command attention.
This relatively understated style is tied to the Arts and Crafts movement, which emphasized skill and craftsmanship, rather than the ornate details of previous styles. Curvaceous corner blocks in the front parlor create additional visual interest to the Colonial Revival crown and green built-in bookshelves.
Homeowners added low-key Federal-style crown in a formerly dilapidated bungalow's living room for a masculine finish with few flourishes. Substantial crown molding defines the ceiling and wall, and adds some much-needed ornamentation. Stepped-up Traditional Revival crown molding complements the faux-old floral tile on the fireplace's cast-iron propane insert.
Molding built with flat fronts leaves room for custom-look flourishes, like the one pictured. Lots of beading at play in the Federal crown molding frames up this dining room's entertaining features, the built-in China cabinets and arched pocket doors. Georgian-style dentil molding—plus extra details—gives this fireplace the ultimate historical treatment.
Coordinating crown and window cases dripping in detail and generous beading keep the eye roaming. Make like a circa 's wealthy landowner and replicate the elegance of the Georgian style with buildable blocks, bed molds, dentil and hefty crown molding.
Corner blocks of Colonial Revival crown molding draw the eye upward to the vaulted, beadboard ceiling. The lighter side of Colonial Revival crown molding and period-appropriate wall color let rosettes on window casings and a classical mantel take center stage in this former frat house's master bedroom.
The living room is an area of the home that gets a lot of regular use. For instance, check out the living room featured above. The designer of this room utilized crown moulding on the fireplace and along the edges of the ceiling. The attention to detail is exquisite and illustrates a level of expertise that many designers try to emulate. Dining rooms are usually the place in every home where family, friends, and guests eat, congregate, socialize, and celebrate.
Using moulding as an accent will add an elegant and sophisticated quality to your space without drawing too much attention. The room will just feel fancier and more luxurious, and no one will quite know why. Family rooms and living rooms have a lot of similar uses, but there is a difference.
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