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Crown & Trim
Supply and install crown mouldings. Casing baseboard and all interior home finishing trim.
Curved layered and back lit, crown molding is our specialty. 30 year finish carpenter.
Crown molding installations and trim finish carpentry
Crown molding and finish trim contractor. Wide variety of styles for your home and business.
We owned the King of Crown molding store in Santa Rosa, we know our crown and trim.
Sebastopol Gardens historic and colorful home and another vaulted ceilings crown molding.
Our "how to
install crown" site
Our "Finishing
Carpentry" site
Our "Deck
Projects" site
< CROWN AND TRIM BUILD UP
This ceiling was framed to have the three levels and wired to be backlit. Dramatic effect for a media room.
< COFFERED CEILING CROWN MOLDING
Crown moulding is one of the important architectural elements to complete your homes design and feel.
ALTER EAGLE CROWN MOULDING
We owned a molding store, have installed for over 30 years and have found these proportions to work best for finishing trim.
Casing & Baseboard
Casing is sized to the base, the base is proportioned to the size and volume of the room. Up to a 7½" base on large volumes
(like image below)
, typical rooms 4" to 5" is fine with 2¼" casing.
Crown molding size
Tiny rooms like a bath min. 3½". A typical homes 8 ft. ceiling 5¼" crown and for larger volume and 10 ft. ceilings 6-7" and up.
Molding Styles
Style is really about what you like but I find the classical crown
(History below)
still works well with any decor.
Ask us to bring samples when you contact us for your estimate
or follow this link to online profiles (northern).
An unamed box stores botched installation we repaired. They couldn't cut the crown and left too much space to the top.
< ADDING CROWN MOLDING TO CABINETS
A simple build up with base, pediment crown and square stock for a vaulted ceiling. A build up for columns and living room in a Rhonert Park Condo and for a window valance.
BOX STORE INSTALLATION REPAIR
A square box, or completed cabinet. Did you ever wonder why cabinets without crown or some detail always look unfinished?
An option you can consider is an elaborate crown build up. These work well for lobbies and high ceiling applications. We have many classic designs to choose from.
Crown molding installation.
An important design feature.
Think of your homes wall as a classical column that supports the ceiling and roof. The baseboard is the base on which your trim begins,
(proportion & size below)
The door and window casings the colonade and the crown molding the capitals, the top most important support feature. A room is unfinished without it.
Compare the barren unfinished house
to a completed home with crown.
Instinctively crown creates a comfortable easy feeling.
BEFORE & AFTER CROWN MOLDING
An oversized crown worked well with these period cabinets. Updating the kitchen on a budget simply adding crown is a great trick.
Even for the utility room a small crown works.
BEFORE & AFTER CROWN MOLDING
VAULTED AND CATHEDRAL CROWN
Before, after crown install on a kitchen soffit.
ARCHED WINDOW CASING
We can case your arched windows. We use casings that have matching "flex" molding.
With drywall return windows we often put casing an apron at the bottom and extended stool (sill) to make them look proper.
That's an inexpensive upgrade for your home.
EXTREME CROWN MOLDING
TIP: Never chop the crown into tiny pieces for the 1" drywall round. It destroys the classic look. The corners are so important to us we do them first so they are perfect. Filler of any kind will show up in a few years.
At the Beaumont Farm & stables in Petaluma we installed a large 7½ Baseboard and changed the casing to match with Victorian styles.
We don't like to chop our corners into little pieces so we order matching rounds.
CROWN WITH ROUNDED DRYWALL CORNERS
We wrote the website Wikipedia uses as reference on installing crown mouldings:
How to install crown molding
< LARGE BASE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS
Cown projects for St. Francis church in Sonoma and Charlies grill at the Windsor Golf Club.
< LAYERED CROWN, BACKLIT AND CURVED
This is another interesting ceiling we did with crown multple layers curved and back lighted.
ACUTE ANGLE AND MERGED CROWN
Difficult joints for crown molding are acute angles and merged crown since you are dealing with the multiple planes and compund miters.
OUR CROWN MOLDING PROJECTS
You can see more of our crown projects at the King of Crown website, and on our Mantels page.
Crown with multiple corners and angles and a tight curve that I was told couldn't be done.
Crown molding a brief history.
Crown Molding or cymatium was standardized by 1st century BC Roman Architect, Vitruvius in his book "De architectura". The only surviving treatise on Greek and Roman architecture from classical antiquity, and not re-written until 1452, "De Re Aedificatoria". © Gordon - Alter Eagle
Classical crown molding was first used by the Egyptians and ancient Greeks as a cornice to top their entablature at the roofline. The shape a Cyma recta means "upright wave" and it has a scotia base.
This page last modified on Saturday, January 09, 2010