You can attack it from a couple of different angles... If the crown is all the same, then you can consider it all "room crown", and you can then paint it all creamy white. I have seen instances where the crown is all the same and the color simply transitions to blue at the soffit-to-cabinet crown miters. Your choice. I prefer to make the two crowns different though, making the cabinet crown smaller than the room crown. With the cabinet crown minor to the more major room crown, cope the cabinet crown to butt into the room crown. Paint the room crown white and the cabinet crown blue. Much depends on the size and styles of the crowns, etc, how they meet up, how they relate, etc. But it really boils down to your personal preference. The good news? It's only paint. Easy to change if you decide to change your mind.

I don't know if the carrara would look odd. that really would be your call. we did a slate floor and white subway tile walls with some accent strips. In the shoewr we tiled to the ceiling with the subway and did the ceiling in subway. or more correctly, we picked it out and my tile contractor did the tiling. I think it looks good that way.

Wish I had a pic but currently there is not much to see. Beigy-creme walls with no trim, low white smooth ceilings, 2 small windows, golden narrow oak floors in a very small LR. The embossed vinyl border would not show up - it's currently painted the same color as the walls. Furniture is an antique round oak table and chairs and ant. oak china cab which will be moving into my back room currently serving as my den. A real lot of oak furniture from around my house will be shoe-horned into this dark north and east corner room, and I suspect most people on this forum will be quite appalled: my antique oak platform morris rocker and ottoman, oak mission-look glider and ottoman, ant. golden oak Hale 6 section bookcase, large ant. oak sliding door bookcase, vintage oak file cab, oak hoosier with porcelain top, with old oak swivel office chair, 1912 mission oak convertible leather loveseat, very small black new electric fake stove/fireplace whatever, and largish (in my room!!) TV prominently featured on a (for now) newer oak bookcase. All on a large-for-my-room 1930 dark dark dark american oriental rug. (was going to use my red and beige wool patterned rug when my plan for a different new rug fell through: the red rug would show a lot of the pretty golden oak flooring, but 1. it is on the small side. 2. I really think I want to do a light terra cotta type color on the walls, 3. I have loved the dark colbalt and many other colors in this old wool rug I've owned for many years and 4. it's VINTAGE like the bulk of the items that will be in the room. To me that makes it the best fit. Even though it *will* suck the light out of the room. sigh. (BTW Work in progress, I must say, my upstairs is lower than 7 foot, and the walls, ceiling and all trim is painted the same creamy off-white. The floors I had carpeted in a very sturdy dense, very low pile carpet cut into like a tin-ceiling design, in the same color as the walls etc. which makes the upstairs look serene and so much bigger than it did before) SO - what I have decided is that although I think Sashasmommy's idea of another color on the top of the wall, and/or the idea of a lighter version of the wall color on top is interesting, either will introduce a third element, and especially with all the furniture I plan to stuff in the room, that's too much. I either need to bring the white color down (and Katrina Ellen - I heard the opposite - that it may LOWER the ceiling - which is why I wanted to hear from other's experience in the first place) - OR I could still add my moldings but paint them and the wall border the color of the wall up to the ceiling. Frankly Katrina E I hope you are right, as that was my original plan. Only my lower molding will be about 4 or 5 inches above the windows. Actually, it won't be below much if at all as I plan to put another board atop my windows. I hope your plan works for you!!!! Oh - in case people want to know why I would want to stuff my room: I want my favorite things to provide me with comfort and to function in my room: comfy chair (morris), TV, office/computer space (hoosier) which will provide a work surface and hidden areas to contain bills and papers, shredder, etc., file cab for files and lamp, barrister bookcase for my books, oak slider for displaying antiques, glider and leather couch for company, (and extra bed as needed, electric fake fireplace for extra heat in winter and to provide lamp and table space for the glider chair) and so forth.

why not do the walls, crown and ceiling in a bright white? Decorators white, super white, are all bright whites. Then for the baseboard and window trim, do a soft gray, or sage or blue or even charcoal. they did the crown w/these two