Why doesn't everyone put in crown moulding? (granite, mold, square)
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Hacienda style house and interior. Plain adobed walls. Crown moulding would look silly. So for me, no.
I'm in the same situation (Tucson). Unless you have a custom home here, the mid-priced houses all have rounded corners that make it almost impossible to add wood trim. I'd love to beef up my mingy baseboards but can't figure out how to do it. Just as I couldn't figure out how to add a border of deco tile all the way around my bathroom without rebuilding the whole room.
There's the added issue of not spending so much on detail work that you price the house out of the neighborhood. For instance, I'd love to replace my cheesy fake brass interior door hardware with something that matched the other metals in my house but I have 15 doors in my house.
I'm in the same situation (Tucson). Unless you have a custom home here, the mid-priced houses all have rounded corners that make it almost impossible to add wood trim. I'd love to beef up my mingy baseboards but can't figure out how to do it. Just as I couldn't figure out how to add a border of deco tile all the way around my bathroom without rebuilding the whole room.
There's the added issue of not spending so much on detail work that you price the house out of the neighborhood. For instance, I'd love to replace my cheesy fake brass interior door hardware with something that matched the other metals in my house but I have 15 doors in my house.
There IS a way to do that - going around a corner, but that might be best left to pros. A pic would be helpful.
My last house was a traditional and had them-looked great!
Our new house is new construction it is not contemporary but I'll call it transitional-some what open floor plan-crown molding would not be appropriate.
Thanks, Sanrene and K'ledgeBuilder! I was aware of these products -- they're similar to what's in the house now except mine are only about 2 inches. In my rehab back East, I just added additional trim to the baseboard that was already there and repainted the whole thing for a beefed up look that is popular there. But these molded products you find in the Southwest are hard, or even impossible, to match what exists. And it's just too expensive to replace the whole thing when there's nothing wrong with what's there, according to the neighborhood standard. I wouldn't bother with crown molding for the same reason. It's not really what's expected in this type of tract housing and as it stands now I'll have trouble ever getting my money back on resale without adding extras like this.
I love the way crown molding looks, but simply don't have the skill to take on such a complicated project. IMHO, badly done crown molding is worse than doing nothing.
I was at Lowe's today and saw their huge selection of crown moldings. I never knew it was just strips of wood you could nail into the wall yourself. I had always thought it was some sort of special material and very high end--very expensive. But it just looks high end, when in fact it's pretty cheap to buy, and can be a DIY project.
Anyhow, I'm just wondering why more people don't do this. When we were looking at houses for many months before we bought our current house, we noticed very few houses had crown moldings at open houses. Why not just put them in every room--they look so nice and are so inexpensive. Can anyone shed light on this situation?
Everyone does not have crown molding's because not everyone likes them.
I personally do not like crown molding's at all. I would rip it off if I moved into a house or apartment that had it. I like the straight line of the wall meeting the ceiling better, just my opinion, which is worthless.
Everyone does not have crown molding's because not everyone likes them.
I personally do not like crown molding's at all. I would rip it off if I moved into a house or apartment that had it. I like the straight line of the wall meeting the ceiling better, just my opinion, which is worthless.
The formal areas of my house were originally built with crown molding and that molding is still there and in excellent shape so I will keep it, but I will not install it anywhere else. To me it is a frivolous waste of money. And with a 53 year-old house there is always something that is a higher priority than crown flipping molding!
Personally I prefer a home without the crown moulding. I find the definition makes the rooms appear smaller. Also painting takes longer.
agreed.
i think its tacky and waste of money in new houses; if it was original to the time period and the house was full of ornate trim i could understand.
some feel that crown moulding makes your house more valuable or more refined. i just happen to disagree.
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