Coving - Fashionable?
02 June 2007, 08:42 PM
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Not keen on it myself but considering it for my HC so i can hide some cables. I seen in B&Q (my 2nd home) that they sell horrendous polystyrene stuff. I looks sh!te.
02 June 2007, 09:17 PM
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we haven't put it into new homes for about 7yrs now. just a style thing really - if you build somewhere with modern influences rather than "country kitchen" type house, it will look wrong anyway
i live in a 30s house and i have coving at home - goes with the style of the house though
i live in a 30s house and i have coving at home - goes with the style of the house though
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03 June 2007, 07:34 AM
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we haven't put it into new homes for about 7yrs now. just a style thing really - if you build somewhere with modern influences rather than "country kitchen" type house, it will look wrong anyway
i live in a 30s house and i have coving at home - goes with the style of the house though
i live in a 30s house and i have coving at home - goes with the style of the house though
I like the look of coving, but wondered whether it is viewed as Artex. Even if someone like artex surely a faux pas to put it on even if you "love it".
03 June 2007, 12:47 PM
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What Sccoby Doo 55 said. What does it matter what anyone else thinks. What is the advantage of being a "dedicated follower of fashion" anyway. That is usually just a way for people to make money out of you! All to nobody else's advantage too. Look at some of the weird fashions, more of a laugh most of the time.
I personally think coving looks good, rounds off the deoration of the room in my opinion.
Les
I personally think coving looks good, rounds off the deoration of the room in my opinion.
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03 June 2007, 07:29 PM
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Just avoid the nasty looking polystyrene stuff ,which I am currently ridding my house of.(in when we moved into the house recently .)
03 June 2007, 08:18 PM
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I love coving but only if it suits the house. If its a new build then the square edges suit the new build but an old house should have it.
We've just replaced all the coving and picture rails in our victoria house because someone over the last hundred years thought it would be a good idea to take it out. Looked awful before, big 11ft ceiling with dirty great square edges.
Be prepared to pay for it though but dont get it from B+Q, try and find a local decorators merchants. They will have suppliers that will do the exact style you want in many different sizes and also make corners.....so no wonky corners!!
We've just replaced all the coving and picture rails in our victoria house because someone over the last hundred years thought it would be a good idea to take it out. Looked awful before, big 11ft ceiling with dirty great square edges.
Be prepared to pay for it though but dont get it from B+Q, try and find a local decorators merchants. They will have suppliers that will do the exact style you want in many different sizes and also make corners.....so no wonky corners!!
03 June 2007, 11:13 PM
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This is a new build, it was in my last house (built 1997). TBH I only noticed when I viewed our finished (empty) house on Friday. The show house which is the same "model" looks fine without it.
I like the look of coving, but wondered whether it is viewed as Artex. Even if someone like artex surely a faux pas to put it on even if you "love it".
I like the look of coving, but wondered whether it is viewed as Artex. Even if someone like artex surely a faux pas to put it on even if you "love it".
not viewed in the same way as artex IMHO- artex is/was a "wonder material" whereas coving is like deep skirtings - there will always be a place for them.
03 June 2007, 11:16 PM
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lack of coving in an older style property is just cost-cutting IMO
04 June 2007, 12:36 AM
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Has to be done right IMO. 4 Simple straights and 4 corners without any wibbly bits in the middle to go around pipes, room dividers etc.
I hate the old small section raw polystyrene stuff 3" or 4". I prefer the paper covered stuff, ISTR 6" section, personally. Mainly 'cos I worry if I put plaster up it'd fall on my head one day.
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I hate the old small section raw polystyrene stuff 3" or 4". I prefer the paper covered stuff, ISTR 6" section, personally. Mainly 'cos I worry if I put plaster up it'd fall on my head one day.
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04 June 2007, 10:01 AM
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not quite...if i ever want to half-do things or to use mdf in totally unsuitable circumstances i will look him up though and ask him for advice 
just to illustrate my point - coving here http://images.businessweek.com/di/ar...glasshouse.jpg would look out of place IMHO, but here http://www.i-d-d.com/interior_design..._interiors.jpg, it would be expected. obviously there is a huge difference in the two styles above and as such there will be a vast difference in where people think coving looks in or out of place. to some degree it is therefore a matter of personal taste, but i still don't believe it's a "fashion" thing
04 June 2007, 11:01 AM
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We're trying to get rid of any traces of coving and artex in our house. Doing it room by room. Looks much better without it, more modern.
If it doesn't have it, live with it and then have it done if you want to. Not having it is better than having it IMHO.
If it doesn't have it, live with it and then have it done if you want to. Not having it is better than having it IMHO.
04 June 2007, 11:15 PM
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not quite...if i ever want to half-do things or to use mdf in totally unsuitable circumstances i will look him up though and ask him for advice just to illustrate my point - coving here http://images.businessweek.com/di/ar...glasshouse.jpg would look out of place IMHO, but here http://www.i-d-d.com/interior_design..._interiors.jpg, it would be expected. obviously there is a huge difference in the two styles above and as such there will be a vast difference in where people think coving looks in or out of place. to some degree it is therefore a matter of personal taste, but i still don't believe it's a "fashion" thing
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04 June 2007, 11:19 PM
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Hmm.... fashion dictated that hundreds of thousands of beautiful panelled doors were boarded over in the '60's and '70's.
Bollox to fashion. put up tasteful stuff in real plaster, of a scale that suits the room and you won't go wrong.
Don't bother if you have a 7'6" modern ceiling, though.
Bollox to fashion. put up tasteful stuff in real plaster, of a scale that suits the room and you won't go wrong.
Don't bother if you have a 7'6" modern ceiling, though.
05 June 2007, 12:33 AM
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