Coving or no coving?

last month

Our living room needs an overhaul as we haven't changed it since moving in. I want the ceiling rose removed and the ceiling skimmed. My initial plan was then to replace the current coving with a plain one.

However, the lounge is the only room which currently has coving - the used to be some in the dining room before we made it into a kitchen/diner, but it wasn't going to look right around our kitchen units.

The house is early 1970s and our ceilings are reasonably low - only 2.3m.

Although I personally think a plain coving will make the room look more finished, will it look strange if it's only in one room? Or do you think it will look better without?

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Isla Cherry
last month
I think if its the only room with coving then you can safely remove it so that it all looks continuous. It might make the ceiling look slightly higher too as it would elongate the walls a bit. If your house was Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian I would give you the opposite advice. To play devils advocate it's always easier to paint the walls a different colour to the ceiling if you have coving to stop against.
eleanor_paints thanked Isla Cherry
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