Patent ID: 7370453

Claim:
A crown molding assembly comprising: a wall and a ceiling meeting along a perimeter of a room or portion thereof; a plurality of ceramic wall tiles secured to said wall proximal to said ceiling, each said ceramic wall tile having an outwardly extending support surface below a top of said ceramic wall tile; a plurality of ceramic bridging tiles, each said ceramic bridging tile having a lower resting surface positioned on said support surface of one of said ceramic wall tiles and having a top surface extending to said ceiling, wherein said ceramic wall tiles and said ceramic bridging tiles together form crown molding segments positioned along at least a substantially planar portion of said perimeter of said room; and a spacer positioned between adjacent crown molding segments positioned along the substantially planar portion of the perimeter of the room and forming a gap between said adjacent crown molding segments, said adjacent crown molding segments both being positioned along the same plane, and said spacer being oriented to extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to said plane.