Do you have coving throughout your house?

1980's house that's got coving left in just 1 bedroom. It's badly installed (previous owner was a DIY disaster) and looks awful but it'll be gone this year as we're getting all of the upstairs (less the bathrooms) reskimmed.

In the right house it can look fantastic, but in my house it looks very out of place.
 
I think it suits older property with high ceilings as it is decorative and shows off details etc, otherwise if you add it to a bog standard house your adding it and losing space really but not adding to character to the age of the house.
 
Modern house (2000s) coving downstairs and hallway/landing. Nothing in the bedrooms/ensuits.
Modern slim coving IMO looks better than nothing, but no need for it in bedrooms etc.

When I redid our bathroom (full reinstall from scratch) I put an ultra small modern coving in that suited the scale of the room, it deffo "made it" compared to just square corners.
Most people who have seen the bathroom have said they love the coving.

Cutting in coving is easier than wall to ceiling cutting in.
We tend to do the underside of the coving (ie the very bottom) in the wall colour, and the rest white. We prefer that look, but there is no hard and fast rule about which part should be which colour.
 
We had the house replastered and haven't had coving in about 7 years. I'm gona put it in. I have come to dislike the box like nature and the way the paint edge is insanely hard to get perfect. Some places it's perfect some there's minute waves. Just looks messy.
 
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ChroniC said:
I have come to dislike the box like nature and the way the paint edge is insanely hard to get perfect. Some places it's perfect some there's minute waves. Just looks messy.
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This is a key point for removing coving - the edge where ceiling plaster/board meets wall plaster/board need to be fairly good. If not then there's no way of getting a straight paint line which makes it look bad and this is probably one of the reasons coving exists.

I am skimming ceilings and walls as I work through my home and I spend time levelling ceilings (some are replaced, others have bonding plaster for larger dips). This along with similar care for walls ensures I get a pretty straight corner which then looks modern and crisp when painted.
 
I wouldn't remove it unless the room was being re-plastered for the above reason. I put it back in one room, and that was enough reason to not do it again.
 
Each to their own I guess. I hate my non coving, each time I go to someone house that has it I feel more at home and less clinical like a dentists.
 
just over 20 year old house - previous owners who bought from new installed coving throughout along with a huge marble fireplace. I absolutely hate it but the wife loves it so guess who won the ‘should it stay or go’ argument when we were redecorating. :rolleyes:
 
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