Crown molding around range hood chimney top.

14 years ago

Hi all,

When installing a stainless steel chimney (12 x 14) for a wall mount range hood in a kitchen that has crown molding at the ceiling what is typically done at the chimney top?

I can't decide if I want to run the crown around the chimney or not. I would appreciate any pictures showing how it looks each way, or any other chimney top treatment ideas.

Thanks,

Rich

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focylrac

14 years ago

Hi Rich, I can't give you pics yet but what my GC is going to do is to build a bit of a wood soffit out of the same stain wood as the crown molding that the round chiminey will go thru and the rectangular stainless cover will butt up flush to.

I am putting up 36" uppers w/ 6" crown molding up to the ceiling on both sides of the stainless hood. A wood panel will go across from one side of the 2 uppers where the crown molding starts making that mini soffit 6 " from the ceiling...then it will be 3 or 4" recessed back from the front line of crown molding so it is not a straight line across all cabinet tops and hood.

Sorry I am not better at explaining. It looks like it'll look nice from the drawings I have received. IF you have time I will post followup photos when the work is actually done in another week or so.

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rjpjnk
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks focylrac,
I think I follow your description. It sounds like your cabinets go all the way to the ceiling when the crown is installed. So you are building a small soffit for the chimney that is recessed 3 or 4 inches back from the cabinet fronts and then covering the whole thing in crown.

In my case, however, I am not talking about the crown on the cabinet tops, but the crown where the walls meet the ceiling. My ceiling is 9 feet and cabinets stop at 8 feet. The room is finished with 3.5" crown and I need to interrupt the crown to install the wall-mount chimney.

I am considering three options so far:

(1) Just cut the crown so it buts up against the stainless chimney.

(2) Wrap the crown around the chimney. (No convenient way to attach that I can think of yet, but possible)

(3) Build a thin cornice (box) around the chimney with 1x4 and install the crown around this (provides a nailing surface.
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mom2reese
14 years ago
I had the crown stop and start around the chimney (I think your option 1?)
rnest44
14 years ago
rjpjnk, I'm linking to an earlier thread b/c I think it might be helpful even though it's not exactly what you were asking. Embedded pics and pics to link to are included.

Here is a link that might be useful: similar ideas
rjpjnk
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks mom2reese. Yes, that is Option 1 in my list. Your crown looks to be about 12 inches tall though! It would not have lent itself to wrapping the chimney at that size. Mine is only 3.5". I have looked at hundreds of kitchens on the "finished kitchens" site, and there are almost no photos showing wall chimneys in a kitchen with ceiling crown where the cabs don't go to the ceiling. Your photo is exactly what I was looking for.
rjpjnk
Original Author
14 years ago
owls4me,
Thanks for that link. The first post shows an excellent example of a SS chimney wrapped with crown. I think I like it better than unwrapped.

I need more pics before I can decide.
nhbaskets
14 years ago
owls4me--I think you are referring to the picture of my chimney wrapped with crown. Below is a further away picture which also shows how the window was treated. I'm really pleased with the look. My GC wasn't overly thrilled with my requesting this around the chimney just for the reason you mentioned...no convenient way to attach. I believe he ended up tacking to the ceiling and also glueing somehow. I'll look when I go home tonight to see if I can tell for sure.
rnest44
14 years ago
nhbaskets, yep, I was mostly referring to your pic. I love your kitchen. The hutch look (with pegs) to the left of the chimney hood is another thing I am tossing around for my hutch area. How tall are your ceilings?

rjpjnk, for what it's worth, I did ask my carpenter when he was installing my chimney hood this past Friday. I even showed him nhbaskets pic. He said what nhbaskets GC confirmed, it's not fun to do. He's been in the business some 20 years and he's only done a handful. I'm GC (with some DIY) and I could not have done it w/o him being willing to do free limited consulting. I've got 8 ft. ceilings with cabinets that don't go to the ceiling too. Crown is down the road a bit and I'll do the LR and DR at the same time so I'm procrastinating this decision!
rjpjnk
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks for the responses guys,
Yes, this is the picture. Nice to see that the owner of this awesome kitchen (nhbaskets) is still around and following the discussions as to whether or not I'll steal your crown idea ;-)
I do all my own work, so there is no GC involved. I have already done all the room crown and have tried the chimney both with and without crown already. In fact, it's up now, just have not decided if I want to leave it. Yeah, it's a pain to attach, but not impossible. I can't decide which way I think looks better, so I was wondering if there was a standard way to do it. Also, with the crown you can not easily remove the chimney cover, should you ever have to.
Now from what I'm hearing, the standard way seems to be to not wrap the crown around the chimney, but the reason seems to be based on how *difficult* it is rather than what actually looks best.
Is there anyone else out there who has a crown-wrapped SS chimney? Any pictures?
Jennifer Montgomery
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
My husband is actually doing this as we speak. I was just sitting here myself wondering if I will like the crown wrapped around top of hood or not...lol. I can post pics before and after when finished.
december14
3 years ago
I think looks best without