Do you have coving throughout your house?

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Was thinking of a poll. Seems to be a bit marmite. Too dated/old fashioned vs modern and finishing a room off. What do you like?
I'm talking about the bit of trim between the top of your walls and the ceiling, typically white. Some are basic. Others are more decorative and flamboyant.
 
Have an old Victorian military naval place with 9ft 2in ceilings and ott coving throughout, which looks nice, but is a bugger to maintain.

We redesigned the kitchen and dropped the ceiling just under 2ft and the OH was happy without coving, but I couldn't leave as and added a basic coving to it, although not to the massive Victorian standard.

If I had a newer build I would do without Tbh.
 
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They don't put it in new builds, so no, the ceilings are low anyway so it wouldn't make sense to have it.

I lived in Victorian houses before which had it, I never really saw the point tbh.
 
Nope, built my own house 9 years ago and didn't want it as i think it looks really dated and naff in new houses, takes its place nicely in a Victorian house though.

I think its one of those marmite things, its like fully tiled bathrooms. I really hate the look as it looks too much like a hotel or at worst reminds me of the labs in work.
 
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An extra edge to cut in when decorating, no thanks. 60’s house, didn’t have any ever, as far as I can tell.
 
Yes so long as it suits the style of the house. Same for ceiling roses.

Painting skirting and coving the same colour as the walls is where it's at :)
 
Ours has coving (only downstairs, and in living room/diner and kitchen and nowhere else weirdly). I don't hate it, but likely wouldn't choose to have it if i had the choice. I think it is one of those things that looks better in large places with taller ceilings.
 
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BennyC said:
Painting skirting and coving the same colour as the walls is where it's at :)
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I usually paint the picture rail in gloss white and the skirting, which is 10in, but a few years ago I started to paint over the picture rail and I always painted the coving the same colour as the wall.

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Horrible paper that I am ignoring and so far the OH hasn't noticed it needs cutting in :D

In the bedroom I decided to paint the skirting, picture rail and coving the same as the wall and it works really good and will be done the same in the the room in the picture above, when it needs redoing.
 
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The main living room has it, but it goes with the style of the room, I don't think any other room or hallway has it.
 
alex24 said:
An extra edge to cut in when decorating, no thanks. 60’s house, didn’t have any ever, as far as I can tell.
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Not necessarily. I have it in two of the bedrooms and zero edges to cut in.

I don't mind it, makes for a nice finish I think. Like skirting I imagine it comes from making doing the plastering easier.
 
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1970s build AFAIK. Did a refurb prior to moving in, opt'd for coving in bedrooms and hallway, as felt it finished them off nicely.

Main living area was open plan lounge/dining/kitchen, needed a beam. Opt'd for exposed oak beam as it worked out smaller than metal with boxing. Due to the open plan area make up, coving wouldn't have worked.

Some types of coving may give a older look, but then some look modern, due to shape/style.
 
aVdub said:
I usually paint the picture rail in gloss white and the skirting, which is 10in, but a few years ago I started to paint over the picture rail and I always painted the coving the same colour as the wall.
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Yep, 'colour drenching' to a degree. Had always been a fan of white cornice and skirting but I'm a convert now.
 
70s house here. Coving pretty much everywhere.

As we've gone round each room plastering and redecorating, I've wanted to delete the coving as I consider it a bit old fashioned and pointless now, affecting the the clean look that I like, but the wife has insisted I put coving back up. I've been using Supacove which to be fair, is good stuff and very easy to use.
 
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