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Kitchen Crown Molding Makes A Huge Impact

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Kitchen crown molding is a simple way to make a huge impact in any kitchen.  Why does it make a big impact?  Because most people don’t do it!  Kitchen cabinet crown molding is one of the best ways to set your home apart from everyone else.  In this post I want to share with you how to use it and how to avoid some common installation problems.

Compared to traditional molding, most cabinet crown molding is thinner, but if you have large cabinets you can use either size.  The space between the top of your cabinet door and the ceiling will determine which size you use, but either way it looks great.

It will normally be installed at the butt of the cabinet and the ceiling, but there are other creative uses.  One of my favorite installations that I’ve seen was in a house on the East Coast that had dark mahogany cabinets with crown molding on the underside against the wall, essentially the top of the tile back splash.   It looked very cool and took away some of the hard angles that the kitchen originally had.

Installing crown molding on kitchen cabinets is easy, but getting it to look right can be challenging.  When you install molding on walls, most times the ceiling and the walls are white, so you paint the molding white and it looks awesome.  Most kitchen cabinets are stained, which fades over time, so when you stain your kitchen crown molding it’s going to end up a different color than the cabinet!

How do you solve this problem?  The difficult way is to redo the stain on the cabinets as well, the lazy way is to leave it and let it fade over time, but the smart way is to stain the molding in steps over time.  Stain the molding until it’s a few shades lighter than your cabinets, let it dry, add another coat of stain the next day and check to see how close it is.  Repeat until you get it right.  This obviously takes longer, but it’s well worth it when your cabinets look fantastic.

Kitchen crown molding is an excellent way to bring your kitchen to life.  It’s a fairly easy project that can be done with simple tools and a bit of patience.

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