That's 1", not 1'. Seems like when you use " in the subject line, it gets changed to '. Or maybe I just need to learn to type.

We've done all our rooms like this. I think ours are 1.5 inches rather than 1 inch.

Our house is a 1990s ranch, and would look way overdone with typical crown molding, IMO. We considered doing a flat, straight molding and decided to do this instead. It gives a finished look to the wall and sort of an "impression" of molding.

This is the only pic I could find in my files that shows the top of the walls. The angle of the photo makes the white part look wider than it actually looks in real life.

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Sapphirestitch, thanks for posting the photo. Well done... it really looks nice!

Others have suggested doing the opposite by painting the wall color slightly up onto the ceiling.

I think painting the wall color up on to the ceiling migh prove a little bit more tricky than the other way around. Sapphire, yours looks great. Looks like crown molding. Speaking of which, I've seen the ceiling color brought down and a thin strip of shoe or other molding put at the line separating the two colors. Inexpensive to do and nice touch.