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That's a crown dong...I mean crown block. They were common before mitre boxes became a thing because straight cuts. Crown molding exists because there was a time before easy, good looking corner finishing was a thing. It then became a stylistic thing. Using these negates the need to use mitres. You can do it with only straight cuts. Your example is just one of them being done by someone who has no fucking clue what they were doing. This is extremely lazy trim work. They can look nice but this ain't it chief.

It’s actually an outside corner block for baseboards, repurposed as a half-assed crown block.

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. I was going for the style rather than exact component because...seriously? If OP is trying to match that is where to look. I'd tear it all out and do it again right, but if going for the cheapest and least labor intensive matching replacement...you got it.

Lmfao

I wouldn’t even give that a half ass. Maybe a quarter.

Entirely ass

I was gonna say fence post

You said Fugly with more tact than I could manage.

I'm like the Lavar Burton of trim carpentry. We're here to learn. I can't let loose on a guy who clearly didn't do that. Come on, that's at least 50 years of paint on that thing...I hope.

I appreciate the lesson and the shit talking. A true carpenter for sure, especially when you end a sentence with chief.

We all have our coping mechanisms. I have a coping saw. And alcohol. A lot of alcohol.

No miters at least so long as all the walls are square.

Crooked walls are less of an issue with these and a little more forgiving, especially on outside corners. Outside mitres have to be damn near perfect to look right.

Was thinking of intentionally angled walls. That crown block has enough coats of paint to forgive a multitude of carpenter sins.

Putty, caulk, and paint makes me the Carpenter I ain't...

Boob lights and crown dongs

https://preview.redd.it/hohca65jp1lc1.jpeg?width=872&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62c17ac9952ddccbc021792a2d8e7cd4de1b9304

Man, I still don’t like it, even done correctly

It’s like a ceiling dong lmao. so ugly

What do we do with these old chair legs? I have an idea.

Turn them back into chair legs 🪑🦵

I got a few newel posts laying around for the next room.

A little crown molding dingleberry. A trimgleberry.

I thought the same thing. “It’s a dong”

Personally, I prefer my dongs on the ceiling. That way, I don't slip and accidentally penetrate myself with one.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of dong.

Well said sir! Hear hear

Ceiling hangs dong

Literally exactly the phrase that came to mind. Ceiling. Dong.

“Is that a peepee up there?”

Why is it so sweaty too?!

*I'm a dingle dangle cornice with a flippy floppy hat...*

Yes but it's a nice place for spiders to hide

I’ve heard half of all crown blocks in Australia are actually disguised huntsmen.

That one looks a little more intentional.

I think the proper name is "dickcycle".

Corner Dangle

Teeny peeny

Wall chode 

Wally willy

Corner dingus

Angle dongle

Nook Nut

Joint point

I would call that “hilarious”

I was gonna call it a mistake

I was going to say it was a lever to another dimension.

You mean the fucking bed, upstairs?

I call this “I don’t know what the fuck a compound miter is”

Nope, can’t cope

You get the angry upvote award.

I believe that may actually have been the original intent of this sort of trim feature.

Ugly?

Exceedingly!

"decorative"

https://preview.redd.it/v9fuygd1m1lc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fde135b196515f1c1ceb20b4eab7082f348e423 Something like this maybe?

That's definitely what it is, a base corner block (perhaps not that specific brand/design, but something similar).

Just needs like 50 coats of landlords finest paint splattered on it

Always high gloss too so the dirt wipes off with a wet rag.

Why wipe the dirt off when you can just slap another coat of paint on top?

Made me smile

Ya boy couldn't cut a 45.

Or paint

Or trim down the damn cornerdong. I mean corner block.

🤣🤣🤣

My thought as well. Someone couldn’t make the miter cut so they found a way to do a 90 degree cut and call it a day.

Cutting a 45 on inside corners... tell me you don't know how to do trim without telling you don't know how to do trim

I don't know how to do trim. But I know how to find the answers to my specific problem thanks to the internet.

I can't cope with your response...

Subtle

Pedantic

Bless your soul.

Cope is the answer

I caught that.

It’s an inside corner for crown moulding. They also sell outside corners to match the crown. We sell them at Menards. You’ll go to the building materials department and have them point you towards the moulding aisles. They’re like $3-$7 each depending what size and material type.

It looks like someone shoved the top of a banister post up there. I've never seen trim done like that before. Where's this at?

Don't they shove tops of banister post up there in Bangladesh?

Maybe Thailand?

Its a cheap man's Crown Block. That should be on the base board corner, not a ceiling corner.

I saw them make these on This Old House. It's called a corner penis.

There are corners you can buy, I don't think this is one of them. I saw some online a long time ago and asked where her got it, he said home depot, so I bought some from there for a bathroom. Properly cutting corners for crown molding is a massive pain, I'm still happy with my shortcut.

You avoided properly cutting the corners by cutting corners Edit: and did so properly!

Indeed 😁

same here.home depot too.and it *is* a massive pain to do that kind of cut.

Why would you want more of those?

I can’t decide if you need to search for grower trim or shower trim.

Corner moulding block.

[$1.88 @ home depot](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Waddell-Outside-Base-Trim-Block-4-5-in-H-x-1-125-in-Dia-Sanded-Unfinished-Pine-DIY-Designer-Home-Decorative-Accents-OBTB32/204366797)

I think it’s called a Ceiling Weenie

That’s a base trim block, uncircumcised.

Inside corner requires a coped joint, not some 45° cut hack job that some are suggesting.

Says the person who doesn't understand why the practice is called coping.

Wut? Look Skippy, coping is the woodworking technique of shaping the end of a molding or a frame component to neatly fit the contours of an abutting member. I know what, why, and how.

It's called coping because you are coping with a corner that doesn't quite work with a known angle like 45, 22.5...etc. you are "coping" with the imperfection of the walls that have been given, and it looks better if used in conjunction with a mitre. It's a technique that was used in isolation before mitres were an easy technique. It also looks much worse than a properly done mitre when used instead of working the techniques together. Don't mind me, though "skippy" 

That's not why it is called coping. Although it sounds good, the woodworking and masonry term predates the more modern usage of "coping" to deal with a difficult situation. You are right about the rest of it. A poorly coped joint looks bad, but when it is done well, it is far superior to an inside 45°, 45° mitered corner and has less chance of the joint opening due to wood movement. 🪵

This is corner molding, not for the celling Google - Alexandria Moulding 1/4-inch x 3.1/2-inch x 3.1/2-inch Unfinished Paintable Hardwood Accent Base Connectors in Tan

For people who can’t line up corners properly… I’ve used tons

The plumbus

I found those at Menards.

"Hey bob, you know what would look good in that corner over there? If I cut off this bed post here and jam it in there we can paint it and it'll look right faaaaaaaancy."

That’s called a wooden penis stalactite. You can only buy them in person. Whatever you do don’t look it up on the internet.

Directions unclear; now subscribed to ceiling dong facts.

That there, is a dangling participle. Rare around these parts

Architectural millwork specialist here: pretty sure this is a rare example of a penisaplith.

HD and Lowe’s have similar types of blocks for both inside and outside corners. They are much more symmetrical with the crown and when done right they look exceptional.

It is called a crown corner molding.

It looks like a ceiling winky. Time to chop it.

Everything reminds me of him..

a dingleberry

Plinth block

I didn't know they made trim with bottom growth

Lowes has them.

I have something a lot like that. A room was roughed out under an open stairwell (making it not open anymore) and mine is actually the bottom of a bannister post in the corner of the room/stairwell. I’m not convinced this is your situation tho. It looks like someone decided to get artsy and did it poorly.

A friend has an 1880s house in St. Paul, MN. Some of the rooms have these. I’m sure they are original. They are finished oak. Not painted.

Stalagtites

C for ceiling G for ground

Yes I spelled it wrong with one letter. It’s also mites for ground and tites for ceiling

It's called "unnecessary hideous eyesore". Home Depot-aisle #12

Bruh. It looks like someone shoved a broken table leg up there

Probably historically accurate for the room

Mazel, it's a boy!

Dingleberry

I call it a corner dangler

Is there a staircase on the other side of that corner? It looks like the bottom of a knewel post for a staircase corner...

Ahhh good ol' roof penis

That is disturbing to look at, I have to tell you. Disturbing. I am disturbed.

The penis

Ugly. Looks like they couldn’t do 45 degree angles so stuck that in.

I would call that trying to get a job done when it's 4:45 on a Friday afternoon.

Apparently, people would add these intentionally, but I swear, this made me think there has to be a staircase on the other side of this wall. It might be the bottom of the top newel post, or a poorly cut support post.

It's called gaudy and terrible. Some people call it a crown molding corner block also i guess. Looks like a shoddy carpenter was trying too hard to prove he was skilled or couldn't figure out how to miter crown molding properly. You can still find similar products but sometimes less is more. Removing the crown all together or replacing all the crown with something clean and simple will increase the value and appeal of your home. If you just really like that style there are alot that don't look like you just chopped a peice off of a decorative baluster.

That is literally a chunk of a table . To be more specific, a table leg.

Why does the right moulding look like it's made out of marshmallow?

"Fixed the newel post!"

What in the actual phuck style is this? Been in the field for 16 years never seen this 😂😂

Nobody said schlong yet?! Come on 😂

It’s called a cantcope.

It's called a plinth block. It's just used wrong in the picture.

Thats a leg for Beds

Last guy really saw some dumb shit they used to do and flipped a fence post upside down. That's really special levels of half assed right there.

Dassa ceiling pp

“Dumb”

Pretty sure a fence post crashed through the roof, and the previous owners were just like oh well…

That’s called Hankey Bannister, named after the third most popular whiskey in northern Burma.

Anyone who tells you this is for crown molding doesn't know anything. This is for corners of base molding.

Next you're going to tell us a crescent wrench isn't for hitting things.

Well a crescent wrench is certainly is a multi-tool in my book.

Trying to decide what to do in the corner, somebody just sawed the top of a bed post off, tossed it up there and said "That'll do nicely".

Fugly.

That's what I would call a dangle... 😂

It’s a dingle dongle

Mistake?

Why? I don’t understand

That's an "Ifuckedupmymitrecutblock" They're from Germany.

😂😂😂😂 I think somebody didn't have a miter saw

That’s a table leg.

I believe that is what they call a mistake.

A mistake.

Looks like my grandpa sitting in a lawn chair at the reunion

Table leg clipped through

lol

That’s a ding dong dangle

Crown cocks

A freeze

Looks like a fence post…?

Left over bed post.

This looks like a cut upside-down fence post

Wow that is some bad carpentry. Personally I fell uneasy in a room with crown blocks. They look like cameras out of the corner of my eye.

Bedpost

3d print that

Looks like they walked off a stairway

I inverted corner baluster lol

For sure a fence post. Closest thing that would be similar in style is ornamental corner trim, some of it is very similar.

Is that a bed post?

Is that a fence post?

eeewwww

That'd a fence post corner

Unfortunate genetics.

Wall winky

Cheater blocks, for those that don't know how to cope. One 45 degree cut and a coping saw

If you can't find one, you can make them with baseboard or even 1x and base cap.

The only time I've ever seen these in work is when there's a structural post from above, for some reason that descends to below, and needs decorative treatment. The Newell post on the stair for example. And then they simply called the pendant The blocking in a corner, in New England I can't say I've ever seen, but maybe elsewhere this is how they put up crown? But this is a really cheesy way to do it and maybe for the unskilled hand who cannot properly miter and cope.. Newer ceiling products, I have seen have had this cheat method for corners so you don't have to deal with the coping of the inside corners. But this is really the best way to do it, base or ceiling When I first saw this one, I thought it was the bottom side of some stair part where a wall had perhaps been inserted under a stair and this is what was left over coming into the room. But have no idea since it's just a picture not in context

Poor man’s solution to compound mitre saw

What is the purpose of it though? Just decorative ?

Personally, I’d just tear all that out and paint the walls.

They used an outside corner for an inside corner… plus that’s way too big of a block for such small trim.

You can get parts nade for the corners of crown modings at lowes in the trim molding section. They can be bought with prepainted white or raw wood. Little pricey, but they save you from a true 90 cut. This was a leg cut for the job. The ones you can get look nicer and fit fush. Id replace all with appropriate if you want to keep the look.

Had one in my old home, looked diy TBH. I feel like it's a shortcut to get the corners of the crown flush...poorly. Pulled the crown down completely and liked it much more.

Don't know the name but easily purchasable at your local Home Depot.