Can you have crown molding with popcorn ceilings?
TexasJen
10 years ago
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Comments (1)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....See Moredid you use the same white on your crown molding and ceiling?
Comments (7)I'm with funcolors...ceiling white is an abomination! In most rooms, an untinted white ceiling sits there over your head like a piece of posterboard, and makes you feel as though you were in a shoebox with the lid on. In our previous house, I used a nice warm gray in our library, which had substantial crown and cabinetry in cream, and I painted the ceiling a very pale peachy pink. Not noticeable unless you looked at it, but it warmed the whole business up considerably. And I used eggshell finish, because I wanted a very subtle sheen in that room. Whenever the ceiling surface is in very good condition, I prefer eggshell...but it will make textures and flaws more noticeable. Rooms with high ceilings and no crown look wonderful with the ceilings painted the same color as the walls (the height of the ceiling mitigates the flop angle). Pale pale blue can look lovely with camel colors. Green, I think, is always a little weird, because the sky is almost never green (unless you're about to take an unscheduled trip to Oz...). With green walls, a very subtle pale gold tint is nice. And if a white ceiling is desired, matching the trim color is the way to go. I usually choose cream ceilings with red or terracotta walls, because red is very reflective and will tint the ceiling with reflected light, and the yellow in the cream keeps it nice and warm....See MoreHelp! ceiling/crown molding problem
Comments (5)Thank you for your suggestions. The sheetrock/paint guy came out this afternoon, and in checking over the ceiling we discovered that one joist (installed 20 yrs ago) must have been narrower than the others, because there is a wave across the ceiling. It wasn't noticeable til the crown went up. raehelen, Yes, I'm from MN! thank you, but our crown is actually in one piece, so that eliminates certain fixes. alku05's kitchen looks great, but I'm not sure what you were referencing about the angle piece. My sheetrock guy, who is just wonderful, is going to remove the crown, mud it and make it level. I think it's all going to work out, but I'm rather irritated at the GC who could have been much more proactive. I'm so ready to be done with this and it hasn't even been two months!...See Morecabinet crown molding or house crown molding?
Comments (11)ffjunk, of course it's a personal choice, but thought I should add, we have a situation similar to yours, with a pass-through window between painted cabinets, as well as a pocket door between a cabinet and a cabinet pantry. Our cabinet crown molding, and our whole house crown molding are the same heights, but different cuts, so the choice was easier for us - keep the same crown molding throughout the kitchen, though it is open concept. We are using stop blocks at the pocket door crown as the pantry is a stained along with the crown molding above it, and the cabinet adjacent is painted, along with the crown above that. The trim around the door will be painted the same as the cabinet/cabinet crown molding. Our ceilings are 9'. We are also using a stop block where the whole house crown meets the kitchen cabinetry crown - it would be very difficult to both cope and scribe the crowns to match and we prefer the stop blocks. I don't have photos as we are still in the midst of remodeling and our cabinet maker has yet to bring and install the stop blocks....See MoreLuAnn_in_PA
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