How exactly do you create a soffit? I am interested in creating the cool rope lighting effect many of you folks have used above the crown molding but I can’t quite figure out from any of the pictures or written explanations here, how it is accomplished?
This is what I have to work with. Ceiling is only 7 feet high so no room for deep, elaborate soffit. The area I wish to run rope lighting along the crown molding would be 17ftL and 11.5ftW. This is a sublevel basement so two walls are concrete up to the 7ft height. Another wall separates the this room from the second basement room, and the forth side extends further out than the 11.5ft width I mentioned but because a heating vent runs along the length of the room, dipping down below the rest of the ceiling, leaving like a 6 foot clearance, I figured I would just enclose the rectangular shaped 17x11.5 area of the room with the 7ft high ceiling. I was planning on nailing on some kind of small (narrow) crown molding after sheet rocking the walls. The ceiling is currently got some kind of cheap 12x12in cardboard T&G type panels, stapled to the joists, that I plan to tear down anyway so I can insulate between the ceiling joists (floor joist for room above).
So how do you crate that soffit or “tray†above the crown molding I’ve seen some of you mention. Thanks.
Jim
This is what I have to work with. Ceiling is only 7 feet high so no room for deep, elaborate soffit. The area I wish to run rope lighting along the crown molding would be 17ftL and 11.5ftW. This is a sublevel basement so two walls are concrete up to the 7ft height. Another wall separates the this room from the second basement room, and the forth side extends further out than the 11.5ft width I mentioned but because a heating vent runs along the length of the room, dipping down below the rest of the ceiling, leaving like a 6 foot clearance, I figured I would just enclose the rectangular shaped 17x11.5 area of the room with the 7ft high ceiling. I was planning on nailing on some kind of small (narrow) crown molding after sheet rocking the walls. The ceiling is currently got some kind of cheap 12x12in cardboard T&G type panels, stapled to the joists, that I plan to tear down anyway so I can insulate between the ceiling joists (floor joist for room above).
So how do you crate that soffit or “tray†above the crown molding I’ve seen some of you mention. Thanks.
Jim