Coving/Cornice Dilemma
George Mayou
7 years ago
my wife and I are currently renovating our 1930's London home and we would like to add some detail to the ceiling in the living room.
Having explored our options we feel that, although lovely, proper cornicing is out of our budget, so we have decided to go with some cheaper coving from the local home improvement store.
The ceilings are reasonably high at 2.7m (8.8") and the original skirting is quite deep to at 18cm (7").
Although just past the Victorian era we are aiming to subtly mimic this classic style, perhaps with some modern twists, but the question is how deep/what size coving do we go for??
Our options at the moment are 9.5cm (3.7") or 7cm (2.7")
Having explored our options we feel that, although lovely, proper cornicing is out of our budget, so we have decided to go with some cheaper coving from the local home improvement store.
The ceilings are reasonably high at 2.7m (8.8") and the original skirting is quite deep to at 18cm (7").
Although just past the Victorian era we are aiming to subtly mimic this classic style, perhaps with some modern twists, but the question is how deep/what size coving do we go for??
Our options at the moment are 9.5cm (3.7") or 7cm (2.7")
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Stephen Edwards
7 years ago
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Comments (2)Hi there, Ah ditto with the 60's house! We seem to have a mix of either rooms with no coving or rooms with plain coving. My father wants me to replace it all with decorative ornate coving, but I feel that with the age & style of the house, a plain one looks less out of place and more elegant. Of course it's down to personal taste. The dining kitchen off our through lounge doesn't have any and I'm contemplating not putting it in at all. Not sure if this would look odd or not, but we had bi-folds in and it's quite a contemporary room so doesn't need it (if that makes sense) Another thing to consider is the height of the ceiling. Ours feel quite low and coving makes the walls shrink even more. If you have at least a good standard height then you could get away with them....See MoreCornice/coving info please.
Comments (11)Hello asart Ltd, Oooh sounds really nice... What I would say is go for something that is quite dramatic.. With ceilings so high, you can afford to have something a little more opulent, that goes both up the wall and into the ceiling area.. Other details might give you an idea as to the feel of things.. such as staircases, doors... or skirting if there is any left! Might sound odd but often the grandeur of the place can be detected from other aspects.. So go on and have a poke around! Stevensons of Norwich are to my mind one of the best and given that you are from the area they are right on your doorstep!! ... They have an excellent range of plaster cornices and roses to suit the more austere and opulent interior equally.... For ceiling colours... I would go for Whitening by Little Greene. It's the most wonderful chalky creamy colour that is superb.... It's also a fantastic colour for the panel in between the picture rail and the cornice... If you are going for that look... Of course you could add colour there, in line with the wall coverings... Incidentally even if you have a contemporary interior... You can still choose really wonderful period finishes... They will add something. So don't choose based solely on what the furnishings might be.. The wood work either a chalky white or something a little more daring do.... : ))...See MoreThick tiles meet classic coving dilemma
Comments (16)Hi. Jonathan...I like your word embellishment! That sounds like a plan. There are so many words for what I am looking for that it has been quite confusing. I have ordered some samples of architrave and it looks like an ogee or regency pattern will suffice. The difficult bit is that I need to adjust for 8mm to abut to coving but 16 mm to be the same as the tile join point. They sell it in 18mm depth so that might suffice. The real pain is that I need 90 mm width...and that means a cut down job. So...v.i.p. Walls....I might be glad of your link yet. Is there a website? Plaster stuff won't work as you can cut it down. I guess I want it to look like extended coving but that is easier said than done. Not so sure I just want to end the tiles abruptly although I can see the benefits of such simplicity. Thanks to one and all....See MoreHelp with sitting room cornice & wall colours
Comments (2)I tend to see coving as part of the ceiling. That's not to say it can't look more dramatic if painted in a different or even contrasting colour, but I would normally decide to paint it in the same colour as the ceiling. This is ours painted white, with the walls in Skimmed Stone (Farrow & Ball). Even though the coving is painted with the same paint as the ceiling (which makes life a little easier as well) it still appears to have a different shade of white, which is nice imo....See More
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