Coving? Yes or No?

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Is coving old fashioned? We are redecorating pretty much every room in a house we are going to move in to and I'd assumed we would put up coving but I've looked at some virtual show home tours for ideas snd can't see any. Is it outdated? Or have they just cut corners?

Depends on the property...is it a period or modern?

Coving is a must in my opinion. Rooms look unfinished without it.

It's a late 60's build so not full of character or anything like that but not modern either.

I think it finishes a room.

Thank you. I agree, it does finish a room. It's a yes.

I'm in a late 60s house. Rooms we've replastered don't have coving. Personally I think it's a bit dated.

@Feelingpoorlysick

Coving is a must in my opinion. Rooms look unfinished without it.

This.

Living room only IMHO

I had to google it...

Yep 100% dated.

I don't really think it's dated, the current trend for panelling is making it even more popular.

I think if you chose the right style it just finishes the room off.

I think it depends on the style/age of the house. A new build I would not add it, a period style it's a nice finish as also potentially a picture rail. What coving are you adding? The poly DIY can be a fire risk vs the plaster style, but plaster coving is also extra £x's that you may not need.

Yes but not the cheap thin poly stuff.
Proper wide plaster coving. A room doesn’t look finished without it.

Not in a 60s house, that would be strange.

I like coving, we have it in the living room and it looks lovely painted white against the walls it sets them off

I have a 60’s house. Chalet style with high ceilings downstairs so needs wide coving or the rooms look boxy.
Upstairs the ceilings are lower as you go into the eves of the house so I have a narrower coving in the hallway but none in the bedrooms.

A bit of a mix of opinions. Thanks all. Good point about the polystyrene used in some coving. We are stripping off the painted anaglypta wallpaper from every room which is also on the ceiling, along with this we are removing the current coving as we wouldn't get a good finish by leaving it. I still think we will replace it. We are also replacing the skirting and architrave in the main living room and the entrance hallway - would like to change it throughout but we haven't got the energy or the budget - there's so many other things to get done!

I am in the middle of doing something very similar to my hall, stairs, landing and dining area but I am putting the anaglypta back😀
I had narrow plain skirting which I am replacing with a wider torus one, I having coving in the dining area and am putting coving into the hall to match then a Camero cashmere oak flooring throughout.
The anaglypta is an early Victorian design and will be painted ivory lace.
Won’t be to everyone’s taste but it is the style I like.

@Proudboomer - I just googled early Victorian anaglypta and can see why you're going for it. The anaglypta we are taking off isn't as nice and I just love smooth painted walls.

Coving would only be traditionally downstairs in the rooms where visitors might see it, I guess.

It is a really nice paper if you like that sort of thing. At the moment I have smooth painted paster so I am not using it to cover uneven walls.
I wanted something that looked warmer with some texture as it is quite a large space and the painted walls look cold and unloved.

I think rooms look terrible, cheap and boxy without coving. Don't really get people saying it looks old fashioned. I think it looks more dated not to have it - years of cheap building practices and cutting corners.

I wouldn’t put it up in a 60s house.

Old fashioned and cheap.

Unless you’re in a large Victorian house that has period features and wide ornate coving...which would be weird in a house from the 60s.

Any room looks better with coving, but it has to be the plain plaster type. We have a modern house and we have coving downstairs, except in the kitchen. I really wish the builders had put it in the bedrooms, rooms just look better with it.

Coving is neither cheap or old fashioned.

Agree with all the PPs who said a room looks unfinished without coving. Disagree with those who said not in a 60s house our last house was a 60s terrace, we still added coving to all the rooms and it looked miles better.