That doesn't include painting? Sounds high, but then I've never understood WHY crown is expensive.

Why not get another quote? I might choose to go with a lower quote from a handyman for crown in the bedrooms. For living areas I would want it to be "perfect".

Way low. FIgure $20-$30 a foot for a decent size crown supplied and installed. Plus 25% for waste. That’s 5-6K before paint.

You haven't provided details on whether these are simply rectangular rooms with joints in the corners only, or something more complex. In addition, are these sheetrock or plaster walls? And is the house newer and fairly plumb, or older with some possible settling? Things like this, as well as just how much cutting and fitting work there is, will have a big effect on price.

You need 14 (16) foot sections plus maybe 2 for extra. My crown was $2.79 a linear foot for primed. So materials at $3/linear foot brings you to $768 or so in my calculations. Labor has to include putting triangular blocking on the 2 walls in each room that don't have a nailing surface. If you have new plumb plain, straight ceilings without funky angles then the price seems fine but if you have an older house or lots of cuts, then it seems low.

editing to add that I’m talking 3 inch crown, single piece. And yes, increasing price per complexity as per comments below. And yes I have dinky crown that look fine with my simple farmhouse and 8 foot ceilings.

My crown, which was a 3 piece unit, cost me $3.15/ft in labor plus the cost for materials. In my basement I have a single 6" and it was $1.15/ft in labor.

For dinky 2” MDF molding, maybe you can get it for under $3 a Foot. Something 5” or so with some presence will be 4x as costly. Somethings compound, with multiple sticks, with some presence can be 10x+ as costly. And have a higher waste factor too, because of the size and complexity. And higher skill needed. Only a good finish carpenter needs to touch this.

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Sounds very reasonable for NY.

I just paid cash to the painter and carpenter to finish off roughly a 10x10 foyer and a 20x20 great room. It was $1400 all in for material, install and painting. It was a very simple 4" poplar crown. Mind you this was a cash job so the hourly rate was much lower.

There's a guy near me that will do it for $367 (plus round trip airfare for him and his wife, three weeks food & lodging in a hotel of his choosing, transportation to and from the building site, and miscellaneous expenses).

Seek local bids.

I change kitchen sinks for more than 3K. It takes me a day. I'm not going into the crown business.

Have you asked this person if they've ever installed crown molding before? And if so, have the home owners spoken to them after installation?

You didn't say how many pieces of crown molding are involved in your design. You could be putting on a single piece unit or you could be putting in four or five pieces with supporting structure underneath. Expect the price to increase with each piece because the labor involved would be based on one, two, three or four circuits in each room depending upon the complexity. Most tradesmen will price according to the running foot total involved in the project.