what cornice style did you choose?

hey getting there, that's an awesome site!

I see you have to spend at least $2 million in new york to get a doorman... wouldn't it be nice!

Annie

You will find that your builder will either (a) not do it or (b) charge a fairly hefty cost to do it.

Some boutique builders offer it as a standard but most builders charge for it.

Your plasterer would have to be really finicky to get it looking smooth and even. Cornices cover a multitude of sins (which is why builders like them)

I was on two minds whether or not to start a new thred, but in the end thought it worthwhile to ressurect this one as it does have some good info and links in it.
I was going with the run-of-the-mill 90mm cove cornice, however, when I had a chance to look at my friends recently completed house, I was simply blown away !
The clean straight simple lines demarcating a division between the wall and ceiling was like a breath of fresh air - no really !
I got my cornice removed and have no specified straight set (aka no cornice) as my choice. My ceilings are 3000mm high (10 feet) and I bet it would look simply superb
Sometimes, the simplist styles are the most elegant. IIt truely lends credence to the adage "less is more".

We live in an apartment at the moment, therefore we have no cornice. It is divine.

Our house unfortunately will have your bog standard normal cornice. *sob*

If we could afford it, we would go without, then we can have things going truely from floor to ceiling, e.g. kitchen cabinets, mirrored sliding doors on wardrobes, tiling, windows.

I'd love to see a pic of shadowset as well. My SS was only talking about this style today.


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Always happy to show off our cornice. It is Gyprock Symphony. Looks great in our country home

We are having shadow line through the whole house and it is costing a lot more than double the cost of square set, but gives the infinity edge look, we will be having 3.3m ceilings at the back of our house and 2.7m ceilings everywhere else, should look great (well it better), most builders dont like to use it due to the workmanship involved, my builder says he likes to keep his gyprockers working hard

I had a look at shadowset, it appears that it is a profile that gyprock make and is very different to shadow line.

Steph,

Having trouble uploading photos as internet playing up, but this is the link to the gyprock page with shadowset cornice
http://www.gyprock.com.au/resources/fil ... heets.aspx?
http://www.infolink.com.au/c/CSR-Gyproc ... et-n764071

Hope the links work

Anyone with square set cornices.... is it more prone to cracking than a std cornice? People say it is but I can't see why it would. Most cracks in the cornice are from the builders not using eough plaster to stick the cornice on.

Very nice. Rawson are only charging us $1700 to do square set all through, but I do like the Shadowline or Shadowset look. I will have to ask the question.