Finish Carpenters: Ideas please?
 

I am re-finishing a room and I'd appreciate some ideas for the crown moulding.

The room is 12x18, the walls are knotty pine wainscoting over painted wall board. The ceiling is is tongue/groove knotty pine planking.

I didn't like any of the crowns available off the shelf at Home Depot/Lowes so I was thinking of using separate pieces of other mouldings to put together my own crown. But I'm not very creative.

So any suggestions?

thanks guys

How tall are the ceilings? The reason I ask is that if you have 8' ceilings a built up crown molding might overwhelm the room.

I saw this on one of those sell your house things. Don't know if it would work in your situation but here was the idea.

1. Paint the walls something other than white.
2. Put up a piece of white trim (I think it was 1/4 round) about 2" from the ceiling.
3. Paint the wall to ceiling white to match.

Surprisingly it was not half bad. It only works with a really tall ceiling where you can not see the difference without close inspection.

standard 8'

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Now high is the wainscoat? 3'? I sort of agree with kurtv that the moulding might be too much. If anythng, mabye just a piece of 3/4 cove or something simple like that.

wainscoting is 33". Agree on not overpowering thr room, good advice that, but I do need some kind of crown molding. Quarter round just looks so Motel 6.

Motel 6!:D :D Thats why I suggested a thin cove stained the same color as the wainscoat. My house had wainscoat with a huge dentil crown on top on some of the room . Was much happier when i took the crown down. it seemed to open the room alot.
But it really comes down to personal preference.

hmmm cove moulding, thats the reverse curve stuff?

Quarter round stained the same color as the panelling would be virtually invisible and hide the wall to ceiling seam. I would get a piece, stain it, and just tack it in place to see how it looks. I thing anything more than that is going to look overwhelming in a low ceiling room.

Yeah, its concave Like this (

thanks Vinman

If you want to make the cove look really impressive, start with door casing along the top of the wall, detail side down of course, then put the cove over that. Doesn't take up much space, and looks really nice.

-Nick