Add Affordable, DIY Foam Crown Molding to Your Home

Adding decorative crown molding to your home is one of the quickest ways to improve attractiveness and value without an in-your-face approach that may turn off visitors or potential buyers. Crown molding is architectural edging that, when added to where the wall meets the ceiling, gives an understated elegance to a space that can change an entire room’s aesthetic and ambiance.

Made in different styles and sizes, molding can make a room feel much larger than it is by masking the static joint of a wall and transitioning to the ceiling in a much smoother fashion. Molding is made in many materials, from classic wooden designs, to more user-friendly styles like polyurethane crown molding. Foam molding can be trimmed and squeezed into place in a much simpler installation than the precision cutting required of more traditional materials.

Molding services make it easy to replicate existing patterns in a home, especially if you still have a few remaining pieces from the original installation to pattern-match with. Additionally, many companies sell pre-made kits that you can add to down the road with stock designs.

Crown molding isn’t restricted to interior design either. Many people have added architectural molding to the exterior of their homes as well, to give a regal appearance. Exterior trim molding is often more labor intensive to install but can make a major difference in how you feel about your home. Again, traditional materials may be used, but instead of polyurethane foam for outside molding, polystyrene foam is used due to its water resistant characteristics and durability when sealed and painted.