Churchill Meadows, Mississauga

The gap above the cabinets is the reason. Crown moulding is what closes it.

• Refinished white, doors in the shop and frames in the home
• Crown moulding added, sprayed before it went up
• New knobs and handles, and the granite kept

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   Look above the doors rather than at them. There is the better part of a foot of wall up there doing nothing, collecting what falls on it, and it is what makes a nine foot ceiling read as eight. Crown moulding is not decoration in this kitchen — it is the fix for that strip.

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   The moulding up and already white, with the floor still covered. It is scribed to a ceiling that is never quite flat and mitred at every corner, which is why it goes up in pieces cut on site even though it was finished somewhere else.

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   Finished, and the two things worth noticing are both things that did not change. The granite is the same granite and the timber shelf is the same shelf. What moved is the colour and the last foot of height.