Crown Molding Around Brick Fireplace

While crown molding can produce a unique look in conjunction with brick installing our kits into this medium will take some extra effort when compared to typical drywall and wood applications.

Crown molding around brick fireplace.

You still might want to make sure it s not a fire hazard. Brick is naturally tough and it can be difficult to drive screws in at an acceptable depth. Cut back a couple of inches on the molding to the stone then use corner crown to the front of the stone with one piece connecting the corners in the front. The most elegant solution was to dissolve the crown on either side of the box as if it is passing straight through and meeting in the imagined corner.

Dissolves are a great way to start and stop a crown molding. Place the molding into position on the front of the fireplace hearth aligning the center of the molding with the edge of the hardwood floor. Installing our crown molding kits into brick. Below i could have wrapped the crown molding around the brick fireplace and that would have looked nice.

End cap or square nose molding is often used to transition from one type of flooring to another but it can also be used where flooring meets a vertical brick fireplace such as a fireplace. I didn t like the look of the wood abutting the brick so my dh got quarter round molding and installed it even around a slight curve and i mixed up some paints to the exact color of the bricks and painted it and then varnished over the paint. Install a 1 16 inch diameter drill bit into a power. If you can see the gaps under fill with white caulk.

Hi my suggestion may not be what you want but i had my brick fireplace before we installed the wood floor.