Crown Molding Over Fireplace

How to add woodwork above the mantle fireplace.

Crown molding over fireplace.

The fireplace is a bold accent or main focus. See more ideas about fireplace fireplace design tv over fireplace. Paint and finish your fireplace molding with whatever color or theme you want. All nailed in and ready to caulk.

You can cut the stone with a really big diamond bladed saw maybe. Dec 28 2013 explore camilla nelson s board fireplace moulding followed by 138 people on pinterest. Simple as that to make this look like a grand fireplace. Initially i didn t and still really loved how it looked.

Use the caulk gun to fill in the gaps and put some putty over the screw heads. If you run it a couple inches off the ceiling your recessed lights will leave a shadow at the top of the fireplace. This should provide a finishing touch that covers the space between the molding and the wall. I ended up having it crowned later on when the rest of the room was getting crown molding.

You don t have to put up a board but we wanted to have the crown pop out more three dimensionally. Fireplace mantel designstraditional living roomliving room with fireplacefireplace designfireplace tile surroundmantel designlow ceilinghomewood fireplace surrounds. 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. If you can see the gaps under fill with white caulk.

Next we added a piece of wall moulding to the bottom of the board using a brad nailer. An optional 6th step is to add crown molding to the top of the woodwork. Below i could have wrapped the crown molding around the brick fireplace and that would have looked nice. Adding molding all the way down the to the mantel.

You still might want to make sure it s not a fire hazard. An optional 6th step is to add crown molding to the top of the woodwork to the 1 4 on the very top. 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. Jack feb 16 at 22 27.

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. Just my humble opinion. Cutting and fitting in that last piece. Use a hammer and drive in some nails into the edge molding.

We started by measuring the the width of the fireplace and cutting a 1 6 piece of wood to that length. 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. There s crown molding around the room which is a big characteristic of classical interior design. Crown is done molding is done.

We had to piece this part to make it all work but again caulk.