Crown Molding Over Fireplace

I ended up having it crowned later on when the rest of the room was getting crown molding.

Crown molding over fireplace.

With it now being september and the fall season on the brink my mind has naturally shifted to mantles and fireplaces. Fireplace mantel designstraditional living roomliving room with fireplacefireplace designfireplace tile surroundmantel designlow ceilinghomewood fireplace surrounds. Paint and finish your fireplace molding with whatever color or theme you want. Personally i d stop the crown molding at each end of the fireplace with some compound miter end caps unless you re really good with a coping saw.

There s crown molding around the room which is a big characteristic of classical interior design. If you can see the gaps under fill with white caulk. Use a hammer and drive in some nails into the edge molding. Adding molding all the way down the to the mantel.

Jack feb 16 at 22 27. An optional 6th step is to add crown molding to the top of the woodwork. This should provide a finishing touch that covers the space between the molding and the wall. This is the part that hangs outside the mantel about an inch or so but after it s all done i don t mind it.

Cut back a couple of inches on the molding to the stone then use corner crown to the front of the stone with one piece connecting the corners in the front. But the brick was done so well that i felt it deserved the senior status of the two decorating items and so i dissolved the crown molding through it. Simple as that to make this look like a grand fireplace. An optional 6th step is to add crown molding to the top of the woodwork to the 1 4 on the very top.

You don t have to put up a board but we wanted to have the crown pop out more three dimensionally. See more ideas about fireplace fireplace design tv over fireplace. How to add woodwork above the mantle fireplace. You still might want to make sure it s not a fire hazard.

Next we added a piece of wall moulding to the bottom of the board using a brad nailer. You can cut the stone with a really big diamond bladed saw maybe. Use the caulk gun to fill in the gaps and put some putty over the screw heads. The fireplace is a bold accent or main focus.

Cutting and fitting in that last piece. This project went quickly and came in under 60 which includes the price of paint wood nails and paint supplies. Crown is done molding is done. Just my humble opinion.

We had to piece this part to make it all work but again caulk. Initially i didn t and still really loved how it looked. Attach the edge molding to the inner portion of the molding right by the fireplace opening. Below i could have wrapped the crown molding around the brick fireplace and that would have looked nice.

All nailed in and ready to caulk.