Crown Molding

I got a call from Canada last night. A gentleman wanted to know if, I am capable of installing crown molding for his Florida home,that he is remodeling. The short answer is, “Yes”. I started to send him to this site to see for himself and then realized, I don’t have any pictures of crown molding displayed anywhere. I do now. These are some samples of different jobs and different challenges that go with them. For example, there is a photo of a master bath that had, a pitched ceiling and a lot of angles. Some people will tell you that, it is not possible to install crown molding on anything, other than a level (horizontal) ceiling. They are probably right since, they just don’t want  to do the job, or don’t want to think that hard.

I’ve included another job where I installed over 5,000 linear feet of triple crown molding. The majority of the triple crown molding was installed in step-like, tray ceilings.The trays go up 18-20 feet, in the center of the rooms. This was all installed and painted using a ladder and working alone. How did I do it?  Well, that’s an ancient Chinese secret, Grasshopper.

I also wanted to include a couple photos of the remodel of Jackie Gleason’s last residence where the new owner wanted to lose the retro look and create more of an old world look. This involved my building arches and 28 columns from scratch to create a square portico effect at the perimeter of the sunken living room. It also involved creating a coffered ceiling with triple crown molding. All of the crown molding was faux finished, with three different gold paints and then antiqued with amber poly-urethane. The posts of the columns were painted deep bronze (almost black) and also antiqued the same way. From the bottom of the living room floor to the top of the tray ceiling measured 18 feet. The columns measured 14 feet. On this job I cheated. I used a scaffold.

I’m also including some other photos of crown molding.

As a side note all of these jobs were also painted by me, as well.

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