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Plaster cornice, coving and ceiling roses fitted, matched to your existing profile or restored, for Nottingham Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Cornice and coving in Nottingham ranges from a clean modern shadow line to the deep, ornate plasterwork of a Victorian front room. Zavoré supplies, installs and teaches authentic Italian lime based Venetian plaster and other decorative finishes, and our own artisans fit new plasterwork, restore damaged period cornice and make new lengths to match what is already in your house. We are based in Birmingham, where the Academy is, and we work across the UK.
Send photos of the ceiling and the room sizes to begin. We look at what is actually there before we match, repair or replace it.
The city has a great stock of Victorian and Edwardian houses. In Sherwood, Mapperley Park, the Park Estate and West Bridgford, front rooms often keep their original cornice, and ceiling roses sit above where the gas or later electric lights once hung. Georgian cornice tends to be restrained and classical, Victorian deeper and richer in ornament, Edwardian lighter again.
Years of paint clog the detail, and knocked through rooms, extensions and damp patches leave gaps. Matching the cornice that survives lets new and old run on as one, with the repair blended in so you cannot see where the old work stops.
In 1930s semis in Wollaton and Mapperley, simple coving is usual, and a plain curved plaster profile suits those rooms well.
Plain curved coving, detailed cornice with steps and beads, ceiling roses sized to the room and the light, panel mouldings that turn a plain wall into a panelled room, and corbels and columns for alcoves, arches and halls. New profiles can be drawn for a scheme, from a crisp shadow line to a full classical cornice. We also fit mouldings you have bought yourself. We do not sell ceiling roses and coving at the moment.
Plaster holds a crisp edge, takes paint properly and can be repaired like the rest of the ceiling, which is why it is the right material for period and listed homes. Polystyrene is cheaper but soft in detail. Our plaster cornice and coving page has more. Original plasterwork is worth repairing rather than ripping out, and the owner of a listed building should check with their council about consent.
We start from photos, then survey the ceiling, taking the profile of any existing cornice so a new length matches. Small questions can often be answered from photos first. We say plainly if the ceiling needs work before anything goes up.
Nottingham is some way from our Birmingham base, so jobs are planned in blocks of days and the team stays on site. Dates are agreed once the profile and price are signed off. See our cornice and coving installation page for the steps. If the cornice is cast, fibrous plaster reinforced with hessian scrim makes a strong but light moulding, while other period cornice was run in place by hand.
Everything we install, we teach, with courses at Birmingham, London and Manchester, listed on the training page. Mouldings frame other finishes, and our decorative work overview shows how.
Cornice is the frame, and the rest of the room is the picture. Picking it out in leaf is gilding in Nottingham, and the wall below might be lacquered walls in Nottingham or murals in Nottingham. Raised work includes sculptural plaster in Nottingham and bas relief in Nottingham.
For hall floors, see mosaics in Nottingham. Stone looks are travertino in Nottingham and artificial rock in Nottingham. For one conversation about all of it, speak to a decorative finishes specialist in Nottingham, and for lime walls under the cornice see Venetian plastering in Nottingham.
Yes. We take the profile of the cornice already in the house and make new lengths to match, so new and old run on as one.
Yes. Cracked, broken and missing sections can be repaired and rebuilt, and over painted detail cleaned back.
For a period home, yes. Plaster holds finer detail, takes paint properly and can be repaired. Polystyrene is lighter and cheaper but the difference shows in an older room.
Yes. We fit cornice, coving, ceiling roses and panel mouldings, including ones you have bought yourself.
Call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, rough measurements and the postcode. See finishes for the walls under your ceiling on the sample board.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Nottingham 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.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham, London and Manchester.
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Venetian plaster, limewash, microcement, tadelakt, metallics, sculptural plaster and gold leaf, supplied and installed by our own team, with Venetian plaster taught at our Birmingham studio.
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