I am remodeling my livingroom. I would like to install an A&C style ceiling trim (crown molding). I am looking for some design ideas. are there any sites out there that have picturtes of this trim?

since my ceiling is low (8'), I have to scale the trim accordingly. One though I had was to install a 2.5" or 3" wide 1/4" thick flat strip on the wall and put a 1/2" corner molding on top.

Did you happen to get any leads? I am in the same process and have been trying to enlarge photographs to check out the style of trim used. If you have any suggestions I would be very thankful.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I'm going tu bump this as I can't find ANY info on this at all and need to know as well! Thanks!

this is the only stuff i could find that didn't have a profile http://www.multiwood.com/prodpage/mould.asp
otherwise google crown moulding and click on images at the top of the page.

this is something i haven't seen before http://webpages.charter.net/pronobis/SMinside2.jpg

my question is this. I have a book called Bungalows and it is a great book with lot sof pics, but on this certain topic, it's unclear. I am about to redo the baseboards and window trim in my house with the typical dark stained aok boards. I THINK it is ok to do FLAT ceiling trim. By flat I mean it basically looks just like baseboard but runs along where the top of the wall meets the ceiling and I want to know if this is ok? I have a few pics that look like thats what they did, but hard to tell for sure. I know that was clear as mud, but hopefully you get what I mean. THANKS!

I recommend Shop Drawings for Craftsman Interiors by Robert W. Lang. The Amazon link is here. Lang has a number of books of shop drawings for Stickley furniture as well. The book on interiors has more detail than anything else I have seen.

Here's some stuff that might help, from reprints of Morgan Woodwork Assoc. 1923 Building with Assurance, and Sears Roebuck 1910 Home Builder's Catalog

I went a little crazy on my dining room ceiling, but here is an idea.. I took 2x4 studs, and used lag bolts and attached them to the ceiling in a tic tac toe pattern.. Then wrapped the 2x4 studs in oak trim.. You can also mount oak panels (1/4") against the old ceiling, then wrap the trim.. This will help hold the panels in place (I used a little construction adhesive and a few brad nails to hold the panels tight until the adhesive sets up.. )

wow, great replies folks thanks so much! Maybe I'm not being clear in what I was referring too though. This house is not a true A and C house, but we are going for that theme a little bit in hopes of selling it and then BUILDING a true a and c house. SO, I was thinking that adding trim around the top of the walls (where the wall and ceiling meet) might help to bring the room together and have a minor feel of a and c. Basically it is like a 1 by 4 or 1 by 6 oak board stained to match the rest of the baseboard and trim and it attached along the wall butted up against the ceiling. Kind of like flat crown molding. Make sense? Bad idea or no?

Hello,


one thing that is very common in Arts and Crafts homes was picture moulding.. It is a trim with a small bump, that allows a clip to fit over it. This way you can hang your pictures from chain rather than put tacks in the walls. You could do this just like you had mentioned (in a base board style) with a flat piece of trim against the wall, then a second piece of decorative trim right below it (so it is like baseboard only upside down.. It also saves doing miter joints on he corners (that would need to be done with crown moulding)


You can also put ion the corner blocks to avoid miters.. My walls were so out of square, I put them in to make things a little less painful. We plan to sell our house as well, Best thing is to think 'professional on a budget' Make it look nice, do the best work you can, but don;t spend a fortune..
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