Is there anything wrong with using baseboard trim as a crown molding substitute?
The door/window trim, and baseboard will work fine, as long as you are laying it flat against the wall. I’ve trimmed out some homes like this, becuase thats what the owner wanted. (And Ive used some to do a ‘build up’ moulding… more on that later) Most ‘crown’ moulding is made to be attached at an angle between the wall and ceiling…therefore it is edged differently, on the backside, than standard casing. Here is a standard ‘catalogue’ view, showing the end profile of some crown… these are all pictured as if you were nailing them to the wall on the left of the crown. http://www.blueoxmill.com/Crown%20Mouldi… Here is another option… use two (or more) pieces of moulding to ‘build up’ the crown. In this cross-section view, you can see how theyve taken 2 pieces to make it look like one really large crown…this was a pretty common method of trimming out homes for a very long time. The advantage to doing
