I know scraping popcorn is messy and time consuming, but I heard I have to do it if I want to apply crown moulding. Is there any type of moulding I can do without having to scrape the popcorn from my ceiling?
2006-10-14 08:35:37 · 6 answers · asked by padra10 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
You can just scrape the exact line where the crown molding will touch the ceiling and it will look like the popcorn was done afterward. Very simple solution. Crown molding is ridiculous in a ranch home unless the floor pattern is really really unique and the ceiling height is 9 feet or above. A standard (8 foot ceiling) 3 small bedroom with 1 and 3/4 bath ranch looks stupid with crown molding. It is not appropriate to the period or the architecture (If anyone still dares to call a ranch architectural) . No matter what the TV tells you, if it impresses you in this case, it really just looks funny and out of place. However if it is crown or wallpaper border then do the crown. The person who invented the "modern" wall[paper border should be dismembered entirely: one small cut at a time for all eternity.
2006-10-14 08:54:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say it would be hard to get a nice clean edge scraped off.
You could tack the molding to the wall as close as you could to the ceiling. Then just mark a line along the molding where it needs to be scraped off. As long as the edge was smooth the other areas that will be covered don't have to be as neat..
In older homes picture moldings were common.
This is a molding with a slight grove at the top, where they would hang a hook or hooks that would hold the cords that hung pictures.
This molding was a little down from the ceiling.
With a popcorn ceiling I wouldn't want to do any thing to draw more attention to the ceiling.
So get rid of all the popcorn & put up cove molding or live with it as is.
2006-10-14 10:22:36 · answer #2 · answered by Floyd B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to remove all of the popcorn take a piece of molding and use it as a template to mark how far out the molding will come then scrape the popcorn from the marked line to the wall otherwise your crown moulding will not fit snug against the ceiling
2006-10-15 12:02:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jack C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a big deal. Put up your crown molding. Go back and caulk the gap at the ceiling.
2016-05-22 01:51:33 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yers you wil have to. If you don't the crown molding will not fit flat and look bad.
2006-10-14 08:39:23 · answer #5 · answered by egotist61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scrape.....please scrape...its so last decade
2006-10-14 08:38:46 · answer #6 · answered by Diamond in the Rough 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋