Ok, after your advice in an previous discussion, I’m going to go with some crown loulding in my den. The sloped ceiling will make it interesting, but we can do it.
How would you turn this corner? Looking from the den to the kitchen. The opposite corner is simlar, except that the wall continues staight, so this is probably the hardest corner.
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There may be a few other solutions....but, I think I would run the crown in the lower ceilinged room (tall cabs there) as the standard crown style, then when it transitioned into the vaulted room add a top, 5/8-3/4" thick and shaped to be in keeping with your crwn styling, piece to the crwn along with the crown in this whole higher ceiled area....I think it will add to the feeling of this room's area being high and grander than the other standard height room.
It will be a visual and conceptual transition in keeping with the likewise upsized room. Even just a 3/4" thick with a 1/2" roundover on the bottom and 1/8" eased on the top edge, and revealing at the start of the 1/2" RO...just a small top shelving sort of thing. It will butt into and start the vertical wall that goes up from the other cieling's line.
It will be trick if, instead of the 1/8" (or less) top cut, you go 1/4" pulled back to let the bottom bearing ride at the top of the lower 1/2" cut. This looks like the piece rounds up then starts to round back but stopping to a shrp edge look, another "felt detail" for the eye to appreciate. Sorry for the long wind.
Edited 3/5/2006 2:35 pm ET by zorrosdens
Even though it sounds simple, I would just return the crown and not run it up the gable. It would be much cleaner and easier
Zorro, I think you're in the wrong room. I was not going to put crown in the kitchen above the cabs, just in the den with the sloped ceiling.
I like TheW's idea ... wish I had thought of it. Crown on three wall should be ok. Or maybe return the crown to the wll, and then start a new run of crown up that slope.
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Another option would be to stick a corner block at the corner. Trim the bottom of the corner block with 3 pieces of crown cut so the "long" points equal the distance the crown extends out on the ceiling side (makes a three sided box that acts as a pendant finial).
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You are right....sounds like I got it doing the wrong areas....SORRY for any spun wheels here. You do have a dilemma here and I will read further too to see if a good working and looking solution appears.
Yep, that Idea is the simplest and best thing herebecause of the "floating" gable starting point that you just can't deal with unless you add something else MUCH more involved and I don;'t think it would work with overall area look.
Edited 3/5/2006 9:05 pm ET by zorrosdens
Just my opinion, but I don't think it would look right with the crown molding running up the vaulted ceiling. I would just use it at the 90° transition between wall and ceiling.
To end it, you could use a custom made outside corner block (similar to the picture, but that's an inside corner block) that is wide enough to cover that small section of kitchen ceiling that overlaps into the den.
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Edited 3/5/2006 4:35 pm ET by DonCanDo
Don you might be right about it looking odd going upm the slope by the kitchen. But ... at the other end of the room, I have to follow the slope.
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Looks like you could build a small fake beam with MDF so you'll have something to accept the crown molding in the kitchen.
Also! Don't forget about picture mold, wich is held down from the ceiling and ment to hang pictures from, but is now commonly used to spice up a room. Chair-rail-esque kinda thing.
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Call it good at the transition. I'd just die it to a return.
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