Recessed celing trims - looking for the impossible?
Recessed celing trims - looking for the impossible?
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paolow

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3,260 posts

280 months

Sunday 8th February
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Can anyone help? At Paolow Castle the kitchen has a recessed element which currently is unadorned with any kind of trim. It looks pretty boring and I want to jazz it up. From looking yesterday I have found the kind of thing I am hoping to achieve - which is this:



The trouble is try as I might I cannot find a single trim piece that does what I am after. No amount of keyword searches give me any inspiration. I can find plenty of coving etc - so I am thinking its possible that the above is two pieces - the flat element bonded to the ceiling and then coving mounted to it gving a homogenous appearance.
The trouble with that is that I dont know how strong the coved element will be - probably not very as it will only be supported at one end - and it will be fiddly as hell trying to get everything to line up / match up.

So I am back to looking for a single moulding that does the above - but I just cant find any. Surely they must exist? Maybe I am just using the wrong keywords but I have really tried.

So does anyone know of a product that does what I am after before I try to get my head round trying to do it from scratch?

Thanks!

thebraketester

15,417 posts

160 months

Sunday 8th February
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That looks like it's probably made out of a few different types of moulding.

mikebradford

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167 months

arfur

4,007 posts

236 months

Sunday 8th February
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This place does a huge range and also custom mouldings. I can confirm that the quality of what I bought from them for wall up lighting decorative coving was excellent https://www.hm-online.co.uk/

paolow

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3,260 posts

280 months

Sunday 8th February
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Thanks everyone - and thanks for the links too - really useful and I have digested all.

It was a really useful sanity check - I think I am left with the plan of buying two lots of trims (I like the polyurethane ones from HM) and effectively have a two stage approach. 1) fix the flatter trim to the ceiling, 2) mount the upright coving to this.

Knocking up a buck as the video suggested is a good idea - I dont have a nailer but can pick a trim that will have enough 'meat' to take a small screw while the adhesive goes off.

I'm not really massively looking forward to the job - but if I take my time it should turn out alright thumbup


wolfracesonic

8,779 posts

149 months

Monday 9th February
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For the flat part on the ceiling have a look at mdf skirting boards, there are loads of styles online and for the cove bit, if you need something with a bit of strength, Google ‘timber crown moulding’.