Crown moulding is a real king in the kingdom of trim. It lords high over chair rails, baseboards and casings, cutting an impressive profile with graceful curves and distinguished angles, elevating a room’s value, framing a wall or the ceiling and reflecting design motifs of other moldings to create a polished look for the space.
Its history reaches back to the ancient Greece times, whenthe profiles and the rules of proportion were created. 2,500 years over, we still have been using them, only with other materials: wood, plaster, foam and flexible polyurethane. Nowadays there is a wide range of baseboards and crown mouldingsoptions in Toronto that will help any of your projects running soft.
Keep these rules of thumb in mind when choosing crown moulding for your house.
Consider the room’s purpose. Traditionally, crown was used to decorate impressive cornices in public rooms, such as dining rooms, entry foyers and parlors.
Play off the existing trim. The marriage between crown moulding and baseboard is the best ever. Installing crown molding and baseboards, pay attention to their size. They may not be identical, but should be similar, proportional to the ceiling’s height and the size of the room. The larger the room and the taller the ceiling, the wider mouldings should be. The two of them must be a perfect pair in terms of size and style.
Even though crown moulding and baseboard installation in your house do not have to match each other, to achieve a quality look it isbest to use a similar visual weight for both of these décor elements. Moulding and trim can vary from thick to thin, wide to narrow. Select colours of crown mouldings and baseboards that complement each other in a specific room. A contrasting combination of colours of your wall and installed crown moulding add a fresh, eye-popping look to your room. On the other hand, installed baseboard moulding that contrasts with floor and wall colours can draw attention to exceptional details of floor materials or patterns.
Measure the ceiling height. Ceiling height is the ultimate arbiter of size.