To cove or not to cove ... (warning - dull thread!)

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So we're in the process of decorating our newly fitted, reasonably modern kitchen.

We've also had a wall knocked through, so it is a large kitchen diner now, albeit with an RSJ between the two, so effectively 1 room, but with two separate ceilings.

The dining part already has 4inch coving up. I originally thought about putting coving up in our kitchen, but DH thinks it might look a bit odd, as the cabinets are about 3 1/2 inch lower than the ceiling (so quite a big gap, but not really big enough to put coving up).

I think it might look odd with coving in one part of the room, but not the other.

Any experiences / thoughts / tricks to get around the cabinet issue!

Thanks

As the ceilings are split by the RSJ, I wouldn't worry about coving the kitchen.

No don't cove. Thats like putting up wood chip!! If anything take it down in the dining room. But SD is right, it wont notice.

I'm paranoid about cracks between ceiling and wall though! To be honest, I just want the kitchen done and dusted really now, agh!

Thanks for posting

If the ceilings are high and the coving is not that half hearted thin looking version, it's fine. Also if it is appropriate for the age of the house.

3.5" = not enough space, surely?

even in houses with coving in other rooms, you don't always get it in the kitchen...

I wouldn't bother. Wasn't coving just used in the posh rooms anyway, not in every room in the house?

It's a 1980s 4 bed detached, all fairly modern inside really. Hard wood floors, neutral decor, beige settee type house, no features.

I think I'm going to leave it tbh. We were thinking of butting the coving up to the cupboards, but I think the gap between cupboards and ceiling is too big really.

Thanks

From your description of the house, I would leave it too.

I agree - coving was traditionally put up in the "nice" rooms, not the kitchen :)

Our kitchen is the nicest room in the house now ;)

I think no coving is best in a modern house. I would take it all down! A good plasterer can get a goof crisp finish at the join and some flexible filler will stop cracking.