Do you have coving throughout your house?

Our 70s house had a mix of some rooms with and some without, most likely to save money. Previous slightly new home was the same.

I've been removing it as part of room renovation and it won't go back as I think its a very old fashioned look.
 
Some of my rooms have it and some don't. 1930s house so not sure if it would originally have had it, but none of what's here is original anyway as it's just the basic quarter round style in the rooms that have it. In the rooms I've decorated I would have removed it but I wasn't sure if it would come off easily and I didn't want to risk needing to replaster.
 
Love it, love mouldings. I have standard 8ft ceilings and still have them. As I’m renovating my house, room by room I’m adding coving.
 
jaybee said:
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.
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I think some sort of border between a wall and ceiling is very nice. In my last house I fitted it to every room. Some of it was the plaster stuff that you are thinking about, but in other rooms I use simple wood mouldings. So it went from 20mm in some rooms all the way up to ~125mm in others. I think it's pretty timeless, really, and just seems to be a nice finishing touch. It can help give you a better line with painting and or wallpaper, too.
 
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200sols said:
Do you also have a corner sofa and TV over a fireplace?
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No on both counts :D.

Two homes back I actually added coving and spent ages picking nice light fittings but now I am older I like the cleaner look. I can also do clever lighting with automation and multiple downlights that aren’t viable with one or two big fittings.
 
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Our house is 1965 and one owner from new, til we bought it. Coving in every room, and textured ceilings. The house had one major redecoration/refit in 1994 and otherwise is remarkably original but I can't work out if the coving is original. There's paint underneath it.

We have low ceilings just under 8 feet and honestly I want to take the coving out and board/plaster the ceilings.
 
I think coving and even dado rails look really nice in the right context of house.
Will be very difficult to get away with it in a new build, but an old Victorian house - then done properly, looks the business.
 
Our house is 1968 - completely refurbished the place and removed all the coving (after having an asbestos test done on all the artex which we have also removed) - best thing we did - makes the rooms look bigger, easier to decorate and more modern.

Coving looks smashing in period properties.
 
2001 build, with coving downstairs in reception, living room and dining room. Not in kitchen or downstairs loo. No coving at all upstairs.

I don't mind the coving. It doesn't look 'dated' to my eye, but I guess it also depends on the style used. Textured ceilings on the other hand... if I could be arsed with the mess they'd have been long gone already.
 
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Recently bought a 60's house and every room downstairs has coving, I've began removing it though, started with the lounge and fortunately it came off like a dream.

I'm not a fan of it personally but each to their own. I think it dates a property, but if that's the look you're going for.
 
1990s build with fairly plain coving. It looks fine in my opinion, wouldn't necessarily choose it but having seen the quality of the dry lining behind it's definitely necessary!
 
50s house with plain small coving in every room apart from the bathroom, it’s painted white same as the ceilings but as we use a decorator it’s his job to ‘cut in’
 
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