Is coving old fashioned / out of fashion?

BoxerfanUK

I don't think it matters whether your house is old or modern, or high or low ceilings!  Classic plain C shape coving always looks better IMHO.  Obviously an older house with big rooms and large ceilings then maybe a more ornate coving is appropriate.

Our previous house, built 1989 (moved into in 1997) had coving from new, but we moved in 2016 to a modern house built in 2006 with no coving and hated it without!  Our ceilings aren't particularly high but we've now installed coving throughout and it looks so much better and as someone else mentioned, much easier to disguise that wobbly paint line between floor and ceiling.

Just get the coving installed, you know you want to! :-)

BoxerfanUK

NixB said:

We have remodelled our 1980’s home and have removed all trace of artex and coving… personal taste

Agree with you on the Artex, hate that stuff!

joe90mitch

Definitely just do as you please Some will like it, some won't - but ultimately it's you who will be in the house the majority of the time and you're probably far more likely to notice it than other people.

scottishblondie

Our 2012 townhouse didn't have any coving, and I preferred it that way.  To me it would have looked out of place in such a modern design.  Conversely, our 1920s conversion was comprehensively "upgraded" by the previous owners, covering up/ripping out virtually all the original features, including some rather lovely cornicing.  We had a bedroom totally done over last year (ridiculously low dropped ceiling) and we had the only remaining original cornice reproduced and put in.

Regardless, you do you.  If you want coving, put it in!

Rosa_Damascena

My coving - nothing fancy - is up at last and the place looks very smart indeed. It just looks so clean and fresh and adds a sense of grandeur without be up itself

980233

Interesting thread that got me looking at the online photos I'm buying of a new build Bellway home , well hopefully if their solictors can get their !!!!!! in gear regarding exchange asap with longstop until Nov 30th.

I don't think I will miss the coving especially the pesky taping and painting plus messing up the lip on them.

twopenny

For all the fuss people make choosing things other people may admire it will never bring you status by what you choose for your house.

However it can bring you great satisfaction and make it feel like home.

There are all different sizes and widths. What I have is dead simple. The rooms without it look like something you pass through or store stuff in to me and it's a modern bungalow. So I intend to see what I can use that's proportional to the rooms without.

And remember. what is fashionable today is so last year in a few months time.

Could be that ornate coving is the next trending thing......stranger things have happened.

So have what feels right for you. If you don't like it in a year or two, remove it.

Rosa_Damascena

twopenny said:

For all the fuss people make choosing things other people may admire it will never bring you status by what you choose for your house.

However it can bring you great satisfaction and make it feel like home.

There are all different sizes and widths. What I have is dead simple. The rooms without it look like something you pass through or store stuff in to me and it's a modern bungalow. So I intend to see what I can use that's proportional to the rooms without.

And remember. what is fashionable today is so last year in a few months time.

Could be that ornate coving is the next trending thing......stranger things have happened.

So have what feels right for you. If you don't like it in a year or two, remove it.

That's a big hassle. Make a decision and stick to it.

Either way, ask yourself how long you plan to spend staring at the intersection between the wall and the ceiling.