Your Home Addition Renovations Should Include Custom Crown Molding

June 2, 20150
Make your home addition better with crown molding.

Crown molding can make your home addition even better.

What can turn a plain room in your house into an outstanding one? Attention to detail. It’s interesting how sometimes the smallest touches can make all the difference in transforming a space into a true showcase. If you are considering a home addition, keep that in mind. Before you sign off on your MA home addition floor plan, study it carefully. Does it include special touches like custom crown molding? You are the king or queen of your castle. If you want your home addition to be stunning, custom crown molding is a must!

Types of Crown Molding

There are several types of crown molding from which to choose, which means there’s a crown to complement any architectural style. Here are some of the most common types:

  • Federal Crown Molding. Characterized by beading (small indentations) and cavetto (concave profiles), this type of crown can make a room with a low ceiling feel more open and less confined.
  • Colonial Revival Crown Molding. Crisp, clean lines are the perfect marriage of Greek Revival and Federal architectural styles. This type of molding looks stunning in formal rooms of the house.
  • Early American Crown Molding. This type of traditional crown molding maintains a concave exterior edge and convex interior edge. It’s useful for making a room appear larger.
  • Dentil Crown Molding. Characterized by a series of squares or rectangles, boxy dentil molding is often placed on home exteriors.
  • Chair Rail Crown Molding. This molding gets its name for the fact that historically, architects would place this molding about a third of the way up a wall – to serve as a buffer between chairs and walls. Today, it’s still often applied at that height, even when there’s no risk of chair-to-wall mishaps. Why? It simply looks great!
Your custom built floor plan should include crown molding.

Don’t forget crown molding in your custom built floor plan.

Crown Molding: It’s Not Just for Ceilings

The most common uses for crown molding are to provide a decorative accent between a wall and a ceiling, to create a custom fireplace mantle and to frame in an entire fireplace. However, crown is a great, cost-effective way to dress up a room and even to hide design flaws. As you contemplate your home addition, think of creative ways to incorporate crown molding and add that extra oomph to your project. You can use crown to:

  • Frame and beautify windows and door frames
  • Punch up bookshelves
  • Mask awkward cracks and crevices
  • Trim stair cases
  • Frame kitchen and bathroom cabinets
  • Separate two walls of different colors
  • Create a clear distinction between areas of a room

When crown molding is in your design arsenal, you’re really only limited by your imagination.

Attention to Detail Is Our Specialty

Before you commit to a custom built floor plan in Scituate and the surrounding areas, make sure you contact us at Colony Home Improvement. We don’t just want our customers to be satisfied with our work; we want our customers to be ecstatic with their addition or remodeling project. We incorporate special touches like custom crown molding that make spaces showstoppers.