If you have a home that has both stained and white finished crown moulding, or plan on installing different finishes throughout your house, it is not that hard to mix the looks together. The trick is to play off of the two styles with other architectural elements, furnishings and decorative accessories in your interior design.
Instructions
1. Add chair rail trim that is stained in the area that has white moulding and white chair rail trim in the area that has stained moulding, if the spaces are openly connected. This creates a flow between the two spaces.
2. Install base moulding that matches the crown moulding to create unity between the ceiling and the floor. Use leftover floor moulding to create other architectural elements in the space, such as squares on the wall to frame favorite artwork.
3. Put wainscot in with planks that alternate the two finishes when mixing stained and white finished crown moulding in a home. Buy unfinished wainscot if necessary, matching stain and white paint, and customize it yourself to match.
4. Paint matching stained furniture to go with the two-toned look. For example, paint the top of a coffee table white and leave the legs stained or paint the legs of a wood dining table white and every other chair as well.
5. Put white knobs on the drawers and cabinets of wooden pieces you do not want to paint. Change out the knobs on purely white painted furniture with wood ones that match the stained finishes in the home.
6. Frame your artwork in alternating white and wood picture frames. Hang them so there is a mixture of white and wood on a wall, or in the opposite finish that the crown moulding is in the particular space. For example, hang one large white frame in the middle of two stained ones or hang three white finished frames in the room with stained crown moulding and the stained frames in the room with white.
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