How to match white crown molding with cream cabinet molding??
lilysohara
9 years ago
Our contractor has installed new cream cabinets in our kitchen. We already had white crown molding in the kitchen and now there's a few places where it looks strange. How do we connect the different color AND different style moldings? What do we do with the tall cabinets that have the cabinet molding AND the crown above it? And how do we encase our sliding doors to match everything. Please help!!!
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PROCreative Visual Concepts, Kevin Strader
9 years agoOur crown around the room did not match the crown around the cabinets so we talked with our contractor and decided to go with the corner blocks (like Gina showed). Since our cabinets were stained we figured we couldn't match the stain so we had them painted white to match the rest of the crown in our room.
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Michelle Scott for Ethan Allen - Laguna Niguel, CA
9 years agoI think that bringing some extra stacked moldings out to the cabinet elevation and incorporating the crown in the cabinet color is going to give you the best effect. this will only work if your can lighting is far enough away from the cabinets not to look squished. some examples are below
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