Ancient Egyptians carved designs in stone to create ornate details for the outside of their buildings or columns. Ancient Greeks used crown molding to create opulent designs in their buildings, showcasing their artistry and attention to detail.

Today, we can achieve the same effect with far less effort. No chisel and hammer are needed to carve out intricate designs. All you need is a fine-tooth saw and a miter box to achieve the same rich look.

Cheap crown molding is a cost-effective way to increase the visual and financial value of your home. Keep reading to learn more about cheap foam crown molding.

What is Cheap Crown Molding? 

Traditional crown molding came originally from stone, with Ancient Greeks carefully carving intricate designs into columns and around doorways and ceilings. More modern crown molding is made of wood and plaster.

While these materials are rich and ornate, they’re also heavy, cumbersome, and expensive.

Cheap crown molding is made of polystyrene, a type of foam that looks much like it’s wood or stone predecessor but is lighter and significantly less expensive.

Like traditional crown molding, cheap crown molding fits snugly between the ceiling and the wall or in any joint where you want it to create a finished, rich look to a room. You often see crown molding in more ornate homes.

Functional Purpose of Crown Molding

Crown molding has more than a decorative purpose, though. It works well to cover unsightly or difficult cracks between the ceiling and the wall or in any joint. It is an architectural detail that elevates the value of your home by pulling the eye up, finishing off a room, and covering unsightly features.

Places for Crown Molding

Crown molding can go around more than just the ceiling of a room. You can frame your door, window, or built-in bookcase with it in addition to using it to transition a wall to a ceiling. You can find crown molding even as decoration in the center of a ceiling, framing ceiling fans, chandeliers, or light fixtures.

Availability

You may be wondering, “Where can I find cheap crown molding near me?”

Cheap crown molding is not difficult to find. You can find extensive choices of high-quality and yet inexpensive crown molding at the manufacturer website or contact cheap crown molding manufacturer to ask for a local dealer or become one of a distributor in your area. You do not have to settle for just one type of molding when you buy cheap crown molding.

The weight of cheap crown molding makes it ideal to ship. Traditional wood crown molding weighs significantly more and thus costs more when you purchase it online. If you choose to go to a local hardware store, you’ll find yourself having to lug around heavy chunks of crown molding when you choose wood over poly.

When you want to buy cheap crown molding, you can go online, purchase the amount you need, and find it at your doorstep within days.

Cheap crown molding is the same as any other crown molding except it costs less and is easier to work with. Modern technology has led to a flexible polyurethane that looks the same as its counterpart and that lasts just as long. But the cheap poly molding costs significantly less to purchase and install.

Qualities of Cheap Crown Molding

Cheap crown molding costs less than the wood, plaster, and stone of the past. Plus it’s much easier to work with. It comes with a variety of benefits.

  • Mold and Mildew Resistant: Polystyreneis mold and mildew resistant, even more than wood. This means you’ll have a cleaner home with the same beauty as you’d find with more expensive crown molding.
  • Super Lightweight: Polyurethane crown molding weighs much less than other types of crown molding. An eight-foot section of foam crown molding weights less than a pound. You cannot say that of any other type of crown molding.
  • Easy to Install: The weight of cheap crown molding combined with the flexibility of it makes it easy to install. You need a basic fine-tooth saw and a miter box to cut the crown molding, and you need adhesive to affix it to the wall.
  • Decorative: Cheap crown molding is just as decorative as expensive crown molding. You can find it in a variety of styles, and rarely can people tell the difference between a cheap crown molding and a more expensive one. It has the same details and design consistency as the more expensive molding.
  • Does Not Crack or Splinter: Plaster molding will crack, and wood molding will splinter. Cheap crown molding does neither of these things, making it more durable over the long haul than more expensive options.
  • Easy toRepair: Because the crown molding is light and easy to install, it’s also easier to repair. You do not have to pull out any nails or chip away at the plaster.
  • Flexible: Cheap crown molding has proven itself to be a more flexible material than wood. So if your walls are not perfectly straight, you can make the crown molding follow the line of the wall.

Why Use Cheap Crown Molding?

Ultimately, cheap crown molding saves you money without compromising quality. Certainly, you can sit around boast about your all-plaster crown molding or your rich mahogany crown molding. In the end, though, you end up with the same look when you use cheap crown molding.

Foam crown molding is a cheap alternative to crown molding you’d normally spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on. Plus, cheap crown molding has other benefits.

Easy to Work With

Cheap crown molding is made of high-density foam. This makes it easier to work with than wood or other materials because it is lightweight and more pliable. You can move it around odd features more easily than wood because it can contour to the ceiling and the wall.

If you’re a weekend warrior who enjoys house projects, you could easily install a room’s worth of crown molding in a day without much effort. You do not need the strength of Hercules to hold up pieces and affix them to the ceiling. Plus, simple tools like a sharp, fine-tooth saw and a miter box make something as complicated as cutting a 90-degree corner a simple task.

Flexibility

Cheap crown molding can be flexible. When you buy cheap crown molding, look for flexible kinds if you know you do not have perfectly straight walls and perfect angles. Crown molding can make an imperfect corner look perfect, and a cheap crown molding is easy to use in those corners.

Installation

Cheap crown molding is great because of its easy installation. As we’ve mentioned, you need simple tools like a fine-tooth saw and a miter box to cut the crown molding to your needed lengths and angles. The molding is so easy to cut that you can shave off small bits to fit your needs easily.

As far as joining seams goes, you can use all-purpose plaster, caulking, or even superglue to create a seamless look across a wall. You can leave the hammer and nails in the drawer because you need just basic adhesive to affix the crown molding to the wall and ceiling.

The most difficult part of installing the crown molding is making sure you have nice, smooth edges. You will need to sand down the edges after you cut them to make sure you eliminate the rough edge.

Regardless of which style of crown molding you pick, installation is simple.

Room Flexible 

Crown molding can go in any room. When you use cheap crown molding, you free yourself to put it in any room you want. It’s inexpensive and easy to install, which means you can install several rooms’ worth of crown molding in a few days.

Crown molding will improve the look of a master bedroom, a living room, a dining room, and even the kitchen. You can create a unified look throughout your home when you use it.

The height of your ceiling does not make a difference either. Many people fear that installing crown molding will make a low ceiling feel even lower. That’s simply not true if you install the right crown molding.

The crown molding needs to be more vertically oriented when you have a lower ceiling. This will draw the eye upward, making the room feel taller. Also, paint the molding the same color as the walls or the ceiling.

Effects of Crown Molding

Any type of molding properly installed has the potential to increase the value of your home. Cheap crown molding like polystyrene crown molding especially increases the chance of a return of investment because you’re not spending much money to improve the look of your home.

Crown molding will make your ceilings look higher and richer. It will give your home a finished off appearance. Plus, flexible molding helps level off a slightly crooked wall and ceiling.

Types of Molding

Molding comes in all sizes and styles. When you’re planning the look of your room, consider crown molding ideas, cheap or not, carefully. For example, if you want a more recessed look to your ceiling, select a molding that covers more ceiling than wall.

If you have a lower ceiling, like an 8-foot ceiling, you will want a shallower crown molding. Aim for a crown molding of two to four inches in depth. The following are common types of crown molding:

  • Cornice Moulding
  • Modern Crown Molding
  • Egg and Dart Crown Molding
  • Coving Moulding
  • Modern Classic
  • Dental Crown Molding

You can find any of these styles of moldings in mansions around the world. For far less money and easy installation, you can have the same look.

Costs of Crown Molding

Crown molding costs money no matter how you look at it. It’s not an essential part of your home. It will, however, improve the look of your home and increase its value.

Cheap crown molding costs half the amount of even the least expensive wood crown molding. When you’re looking at feet upon feet of material, that cost adds up.

For example, you can score wood molding for $2 per linear foot if you’re lucky. Other types of molding are even more with plaster costing around $5 a linear foot and foam costing $3.75 a linear foot.

This comes does not figure in the amount of extra you may need for mistakes. Wood crown molding will splinter, and it’s difficult to work with. It costs you energy with the frustration that stems from working with heavy, bulky wood.

The total cost of crown molding depends on the type of molding you select, how much molding you need, and the difficulty of the job. If you have a difficult job and pick expensive crown molding, you will need to hire a professional to install the molding.

Professional contractors and handymen will charge anywhere from $4 to $8 a linear foot for both material and labor. This means if you have 500 linear feet to install, you can plan on paying $2,000 to $4,000.

If you’re installing the crown molding yourself and using cheap crown molding, you can plan on spending around $500 for the materials to cover 500 linear feet.

More than Molding

Crown molding will make your home a more beautiful, architecturally interesting place to live. We offer more than just cheap crown molding. Our other materials will dress up your home and increase its aesthetic and financial value.

Here are some of the materials we offer:

  • Cornice molding
  • Crown Molding
  • LED Coving & Cornice Lighting
  • Chair Rails Molding and Panel Moldings
  • Skirting and Baseboard
  • Decorative Corbel
  • Ceiling Medallions and Ceiling Rose
  • Polyurethane Balusters
  • Light Weight Faux Brick Panels
  • Light Weight Decorative Stone Panels/ Stone Siding and Wall Cladding
  • Gypsum Cornice Moulding, Gypsum Molds, and Gypsum Architectural Moldings Products
  • XPS Cornice Molding and XPS Cornice Production Line

Our high-quality, inexpensive line of trim and molding can increase the value of your home.

Cheap Price, High Value

Cheap crown molding does not mean a cheap home. You can be the smart homeowner by installing inexpensive crown molding that gives your home an expensive look.

For all of your trim needs, contact us. We’d love to help you bring your home up to date.