Ceiling not level, but opening is. Any advice?

Turn it into an arched opening….

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Is the floor level? Reason I ask is because we just inherited my father-in-laws 65 year old house and the floors are sagging something awful in several places. So maybe that wall on the right (by the light switch) has dropped?

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Is that bulkhead structural? If not you could open up a lot of space.

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In the photo it looks way out of level, about 1/2” or more. You can remove the crown and float the ceiling with setting type compound, such as EasySand 90 or similar product. Then reattach the crown leaving a small gap which you can caulk. That end of the crown won’t line up properly with the adjoining crown, but at least it’s inside that corner, so not super conspicuous.

By floating the ceiling then leaving a caulk gap, you might get it down 1/4” or so. Maybe you can close the difference another 1/8” by moving the door casing up a little.

Basically, you’re not going to fix it without tearing out everything in that area and redoing it. Best is to float, caulk, tweak and make it less noticeable to the eye, and be glad it’s painted trim.

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Paint it all white in that area so it’s not as noticable. ;)

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Karen, I have worked for some people who would do that.

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Yeah, I’ve at some shops that wanted to build cabinets like that too. That’s where I learned it. lol Kind o’ aggravating places to work at or with.

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Make the trim around the opening parallel with the crown. It’s that obvious wedge of blue that shows the discrepancy.

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ditto to kaybee

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Scribe the ceiling (not the crown) and set the crown up into the trough. It will at least be white on white so as not to be as noticeable and the crown to trim line will be parallel.

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