Ceiling cove around tops of kitchen cupboards?

Around the wall at the back of the cupboards, or fitting a fillet panel at the top of the cupboards to close the gap with the ceiling, and then running cove round that so that the cove is in front of the cupboards?

Sounds like the latter.

I would fix a batten on top of the cupboards (before hanging!) and a batten on the ceiling. Insert a strip of plasterboard and screw to the battens, then fix the cove to that.

Indeed - although it gets a bit more tricky with tall ceilings.

Hi John,

In front - the original cove will remain at the back.

it seemed neater to stop the cupboards 3" short of the ceiling rather than jam them up tight.

Thanks for that.

Yes - only 2.4m here so works out quite well with "tall" cupboards - the bottoms end up more or less where expected.

Cheers

Tim

Coving is sooo 1980's Tim :-)

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It's what my kitchen fitter did. He then fitted a decorative beaded moulding in the same colour/pattern as the cupboard doors (the same stuff that runs under the cupboards) along the top edge, leaving a small gap for ventilation. Looks good. The gap is big enough to pass some of those slimline link-lights through and I am thinking of adding those as indirect lighting. There's a spare circuit up there running to the wall switch - glad I asked for that now.

Remember to paint the ceiling first.

You haven't noticed I am so anti-fashion-fads-tv-makeover-homes-magazine-arse-bollocks that I'd almost do the opposite just to prove it?

;-o

Ah - so the trim was a similar form factor to the cove - and it is just fixed to the tops of the cupboards?

That's quite a big gap then. Wonder why he didn't go right up and caulk it in? Perhaps the movement is prone to cracking there...

Good thinking. I have the potential for upto 4 lighting circuits, all

Naturally :)

Cheers

Tim

There was a whole fashion built on that, IIRC it was called punk. There were a lot of fashion followers that did that.

Some of us grew up in the 80's and that is what we like. (trendy is not a word often used to describe me!)

I love the old moulded covings used in the Victorian houses. I hate the modern coving used in new houses.

Not sure if I hate modern coving - in the sense that its better than none to my tastes. However I grew up in a Victorian semi, where elaborate coves on ceilings "papered" with heavily indented Lincrusta papers were the norm, as were French polished mahogany mantles and fire surrounds, so appreciate that the modern equivalent is not a patch on the real deal.

There speaks an idiot with no idea of what punk was all about...

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To the top of the cupboards. Can take a snap if you'd like.

It's about an inch. Ventilation?