Crown molding solution

you may want to check out the Joy of Moldings website. He has several pretty good solutions for installing crown molding.

-- I can complicate anything

I normally follow the surface around the corner molding. To me it adds a lot of interest.

If opinions you seek, here’s mine. What jbay has there looks very good. Although, before I saw that, I thought, “that’s the ticket.” However, on an old house, Don, yours looks a little blocky. A little too industrial. You might try photographing that area of the house, then photoshop both into it. The one that calls attention to itself is not the one to use.

-- Mark

And this is where the schmuck who talks like he knows anything about it clicks the “add to my watchlist” button.

-- Mark

I wish I could do it the way jbay says, but two main impediments stand in the way.
1. The junction between the walls and ceiling are too crooked.
2. My skill at making outside corners with crown molding are not up to it.

I do appreciate the approach,though.

DB

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how about shortening the outside cr ?

If you don’t want to try what jbay described, then cut your pieces as if the column wasn’t there and then cut around it. If this is all white painted, rememebr caulk is your friend. If you’re having problems nailing the crown up, rip boards at a 45 and screw them up in the corner, then when you nail you have something to hit everywhere.

-- Bill M. "People change, walnut doesn't" by Gene.

Looks good, Don, it’s the reasonable solution I think. Finishing up a drill press table modification here in Anchorage. In La Conner I made a small wine rack that fits in the bookshelves at the end of a kitchen island. I will post that when we get back there in January.

Have a good day, good to see us old timers still ticking.

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska