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Where Artistry Begins
Plaster cornice, coving, ceiling roses and panel mouldings, made to match what is on your ceiling or drawn new, for Coventry's Victorian, Edwardian and 1930s homes.
Cornice and coving in Coventry is a question of matching what the house already has, or choosing something worthy of it. Zavoré is based in Birmingham, where our Academy is, and our own artisans fit, restore and make plaster mouldings across the UK. We fit new work, repair damaged period runs and make new lengths to match. Photographs of the ceiling and the room sizes are the way to start.
The Victorian terraces of Earlsdon, Chapelfields and Spon End were built for the city's watchmakers and weavers, and plenty of them kept their plaster ceilings. Period cornice tends to follow the age of the house. Victorian work is often deeper and richer in ornament, Edwardian lighter, and Georgian restrained and classical. The same city also holds 1930s semis in Whitley and Styvechale, where the cornice is usually a simple curved coving.
Every house is different, so we study the ceiling you actually have before deciding whether to match, mend or replace.
Old cornice is often cracked, patchy or buried under decades of paint. We mend the damaged runs, rebuild whatever is missing and run fresh lengths to the same profile, so an extension or a knocked through room carries the same moulding as the rest of the house. The join is blended until you cannot tell where old work ends.
We will also fit pieces you have bought yourself, including ceiling roses and panel mouldings, although we do not sell roses or coving ourselves. A bespoke profile can be drawn for your scheme, from a crisp modern shadow line to a full classical cornice. Our plaster cornice and coving page covers the whole range, including corbels and columns.
Polystyrene coving costs little and goes up fast, but its detail is blurred and it sits badly in an old room. Plaster keeps a sharp edge, takes paint well and can be mended like the rest of the ceiling. For a period or listed home it is the right material. Fibrous plaster is cast in a mould and strengthened with hessian scrim, which gives a strong yet light moulding, while other period cornice was run in place by hand. A listed building may need consent, so the owner should check with the council first.
Send photographs of the ceiling, close ups of the existing profile and the room sizes. We take the profile from what is already there and survey the ceiling for cracks, damp and movement, saying plainly if anything must be put right first. Small questions can often be answered from photographs.
On Coventry jobs of any size the team is booked for a run of days and stays until the work is complete, with dates fixed once the design and price are approved. Details of the fitting side are on our cornice and coving installation page.
We teach what we install, and our training courses run in Birmingham, London and Manchester. Mouldings frame everything else we do, so our decorative work page is worth a look too.
A good cornice sets the stage. Picking it out in leaf is the work of gilding in Coventry, and a dark gloss room below is lacquered walls in Coventry. A painted scene under the ceiling line belongs to murals in Coventry, with carved plaster in bas relief in Coventry and sculptural plaster in Coventry. A tiled floor is mosaics in Coventry. Outdoor stone work is artificial rock in Coventry, and an indoor stone effect is travertino in Coventry. Take a look at the decorative finishes specialist in Coventry page, then at Venetian plastering in Coventry for the walls beneath.
Yes. The profile already in the house is taken off and new lengths are made to the same shape, so old and new run together.
Usually. Broken and missing sections are rebuilt, and heavy paint can be cleaned out of the detail, so the moulding reads as it was meant to.
Not at the moment. We fit, restore and match cornice, coving, ceiling roses and panel mouldings, including those you have bought yourself.
Plaster keeps finer detail, takes paint properly and can be repaired, which matters in an older room. Polystyrene is lighter and cheaper, but the difference shows.
Ring 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photographs of the ceiling, the room sizes and your Coventry postcode. To see plaster finishes for the walls below, order a sample board.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Coventry and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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Our main services: Venetian plaster installation, limewash installation, every decorative installation, Venetian plastering courses, the limewash course and our decorative finishes.
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