If you have coving please can you tell me your ceiling height?

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We're decorating the lounge and there is a slightly dodgy looking, relatively new coving all around. We want to get some new coving in. Odd shaped room but husband thinks it will be ok.

So the stuff we're going to take down is approx 6.5 cm high and the styles we're looking at are between 8.5 and 10cm high. So should coving height be proportional to ceiling height please? Our ceiling is 8ft high which I know isn't as high as a lot of period places are. I don't know if this means a coving of 10cm high would be too high relative to the wall height.

Please can you share your lounge's vital statistics?

I have 10cm coving everywhere. My ceilings are high - at least 9ft. I don't think there is a set rule, but 10cm might be too much. Other points to consider:

• What height is the skirting? If it's relatively short vs the coving it might look unbalanced.
• What design are you thinking of? Mine is very plain. Anything too fancy might look a bit overpowering, especially with low ceilings.
• What about colour scheme? If the walls and coving / skirting are all the same colour (or similar, say cream walls / white ceiling and trim), the size of the coving may not matter as much. (NB painting the walls and coving the same colour and the ceiling white / a lighter shade, could help make the ceilings look higher.)

Can you get a small section and try it out before committing?

@ClematisBlue49 thanks very much. Yes your answer confirms what I was thinking. I think 89mm or about 90mm would be best for us. We had lots of samples delivered last year when we originally thought we'd put coving in the hallway, (but decided against it in the end.) So we've got lots to choose from and they're all slightly different heights. The skirting boards, yes I see that should play into it and they're just under 20cm.

Thanks very much for your help :)

We've got coving downstairs where the ceilings are 9ft and upstairs where they are 8ft6inches. House is 1920s and the coving is pretty simple except in the playroom which is the front room. But in most rooms the walls and ceiling are the same colour.