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   JMadson | Mar 08, 2008 07:17am | #1

   how about this?

    

   
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   donholmes99 | Mar 08, 2008 05:04pm | #2

   Thanks, but a beveled crown like that would need to be 8"+ to cover my 6" vertical gap.  I think that would protrude too much and look top heavy.  I'd like the detail to be taller than wider.  Thanks again.

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   BG | Mar 08, 2008 06:28pm | #3

   donholmes,
   I think you're correct about too heavy on top. I once saw a window with a tall top and crown molding, looked interesting form the outside, it turns out it was a packaged house you could buy from Sears and Roebuck way back when.There was kitchen design that caught my eye a while back, I think it was from "Ring" (a Pro from Israel)on here. He boxed down with dry wall to the cabinet from the ceiling, extending out in front of the cabinet about a foot and put in light cans. Perhaps another way...

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   donholmes99 | Mar 09, 2008 12:06am | #4

   Yeah, a drywall soffit would work really well.  Thanks. 

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   SteveSchoene | Mar 09, 2008 05:13am | #6

   A two part crown would do the task.  Directly on the cabs use a simple inverted base molding rising something like 3 inches that only projects 3/4" or less.  The angled crown as pictured could set on that, but be much smaller and in nicer proportion even if it rises to the ceiling. 

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   WillGeorge | Mar 09, 2008 06:49pm | #7

   NO HATE HERE! Sorry but you can scale almost anything to fit!Try the suggestion in some scrap wood! I'd bet you will find a 'fit/look' you want..

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   sfmc | Mar 09, 2008 04:17am | #5

   How about a short crown piece and install lights on top to get indirect lighting in the room.

    

   We get to soon oldt und to late schmart

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   Pondfish | Mar 09, 2008 10:35pm | #8

   obviously, with shaker less is more...authentic.

   Cove would be my first choice, something angular second.   You might also consider some craftsman style mouldings, as they can be shaker-like.  See Lang's book Shop drawings for Craftsman Interiors... for more ideas.

   Recommending the use of "Hide Signatures" option under "My Preferences" since 2005
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   AdamCherubini | Mar 10, 2008 02:32pm | #9

   I think Shaker trim may be an oxymoron. Shakers thought God was offended by trim. And that your use of trim was boastful like the man in the temple with ashes on his face.

   I would recommend a 6" maple board, nailed on vertically, with a small chamfer on the bottom or a 1/4" side bead.

   People are making shaker into something else. Which is fine. But I think the style can be fun (if negative and deconstructionistic) when you play by the rules. I think a crown molding is against the rules. Not saying no Shaker ever had one. But generally you see such features really simplified to avoid angering God.

   Adam

   BTW Shakers were essentially Marxists. It was religiously based communism. If they had ready access to concrete, those Shaker villages would look like Poland.

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   mwenz | Mar 10, 2008 06:26pm | #10

   "BTW Shakers were essentially Marxists. It was religiously based communism. If they had ready access to concrete, those Shaker villages would look like Poland."

   Well, some--including myself--would object and perhaps be offended by the mischaracterization of religous communalism (or religious communism as you prefer) with Marxist-based communisim. Different concepts and certainly different implementations and motivations.

   The Shakers had a design aesthetic. Not that much in the way of furnishings were drab or without a degree of ornamentation--just not what they considered the ostentatious ornamentation of concurrent era furnishings. However, some period furniture is hardly distinguishable from plainer styles of furniture made by those outside the Shaker ethic.

   There are examples of wall-hung cabinets having a simple angled crown. While it wouldn't be out of the question adding such a crown to a small wall-hung cabinet, if the Shakers had built what we moderns consider kitchen cabinets, I don't know if they would have had such a length of molding. I would hazard a guess the cabinets would terminate at the ceilings or simply terminate short of the taller ceilings.

   But as our version of kitchen cabinets were probably never made back then, Shaker kitchen cabinets are "out of character" anyway. So to me it's a do whatever looks nice on the cabinets.

   Take care, Mike