what cornice style did you choose?

Patris · Jun 11, 2012 10:18 pm

Hi All,

I'm new to homeone, we are at the pointy end of building from scratch! We havent even started the cornice debate, but would agree with square set, its very in and love the way it sets up a room.

I really need guidance with colours at the moment.

This is what we have so far
Roof, gutters, fascia and windows - woodland grey
Garage door - DUNE
Render and downpipes - Dune or thinking 3/4 Dune for the render Ive bought 7 sample pots and its driving me nuts
Feature wall at front door entrance BORAL Aspen fieldstone
Main front door seaboard william russell door

Has any one used Dune as a RENDER colour?

feedback / thoughts on what we have chosen so far?

I'm probably posting in the wrong spot??

thanks
Patris

gogo65 · Jun 11, 2012 10:46 pm

Hi patris, welcome to H1
For more specific help With colours there are a couple of interior designers that post on the home decorating threads or otherwise in building a new house.

In Regards to your render, we originally choose dune as a render colour to match our garage door, we have monument windows, fascia, gutter etc. I had help from an interior decorator and she actually suggested Dulux pale earth instead of dune, although it looks very similar, she said it was a bit softer and was better outside, in the end I saw both dune and pale earth outside and felt they were to light for me, so asked on the home decorating thread and Michelle ( an interior designer ) suggested Saudi sand, which I loved, I haven't used it yet, still waiting for them to paint outside, but hoping it will be shortly.
Hope that helps, have fun ::lol::

akashra · Jun 12, 2012 9:18 am

I just went with stock, standard, whatever the base category 1 Metricoin option is - not because I'm cheap, but because I don't want my house to look like it was built in the 40s.

sixor · Jun 12, 2012 5:01 pm

bigted

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.

hi bigted

We're also building with rawson and are contemplating square set cornices. Do you mind me asking how many sqm of square set you are getting and how high your ceilings are?

Thanks!

bigted · Jun 12, 2012 6:32 pm

I dont know how many metres of cornice there is, or is not in our case, but we a re building the Stroud 30 with an extra 1m streched out the back. Ceilings will be 2.6m that was about $7000 ruffly

hack · Jun 15, 2012 8:39 pm

Hi all
Our builder is charging $16 a lineal meter for square set. We a building A tri level house with 2700mm ceiling on the mid level and 2450mm ceiling on top and bottom floors.

As for the cracking argument if your house is moving / settling isn’t the cornice joint going to crack anyway?

Cheers
Hack

gogo65 · Jun 15, 2012 9:47 pm

I think the difference is that only the cornice cracks with a standard cove shaped cornice, where as with sq set, it can continue to crack further down the wall

gc9 · Jul 02, 2012 9:53 pm

I love your kitchen. It's so nice

JKay · Nov 12, 2012 8:08 pm

We're thinking about the shadowline cornice for the Entry, hallways, free form living and it's costing $7100 above standard.
The rest of the area's are a linear cornice which is an additional $2500.
Ahhh the wife and her taste.....love it

turtleschell · Nov 13, 2012 1:22 am

I love the Jazz cornice, but coz I like traditional style furniture, I really wanted the Concerto cornice. I felt like it was modern yet traditional at the same time. Transitional I suppose. Unfortunately there was no room in budget left, and I'm stuck with the boring old Cove. I absolutely love the old cornices, they are so ornate and decorative.

gogo65 · Nov 13, 2012 7:59 am

JKay

We're thinking about the shadowline cornice for the Entry, hallways, free form living and it's costing $7100 above standard.
The rest of the area's are a linear cornice which is an additional $2500.
Ahhh the wife and her taste.....love it

wow that's a ripoff, ours was about $4-$5k for the whole house(53sq) around $20l/m I believe.

JKay · Nov 13, 2012 10:53 am

gogo65

JKay

We're thinking about the shadowline cornice for the Entry, hallways, free form living and it's costing $7100 above standard.
The rest of the area's are a linear cornice which is an additional $2500.
Ahhh the wife and her taste.....love it

wow that's a ripoff, ours was about $4-$5k for the whole house(53sq) around $20l/m I believe.

I'm just awaiting some quotes from the supplier today. This price also includes the deduction from the builders standard 75mm cove cornice.
Was yours from Boral gogo65?

MrsT12 · Nov 13, 2012 10:58 am

We'll get the standard with our builder, which is square set in the entry way and 75mm standard cornice through the rest of the house. I dont want to pay the extra because I dont spend a great deal of time looking at my cornices now, and I've never gone into someone elses house and thought 'wow, the cornice just ruins the whole place'. I dont think its that big of a deal and would rather spend the money upgrading useful things like lighting or appliances.

gogo65 · Nov 13, 2012 11:29 am

JKay

gogo65

JKay

We're thinking about the shadowline cornice for the Entry, hallways, free form living and it's costing $7100 above standard.
The rest of the area's are a linear cornice which is an additional $2500.
Ahhh the wife and her taste.....love it

wow that's a ripoff, ours was about $4-$5k for the whole house(53sq) around $20l/m I believe.

I'm just awaiting some quotes from the supplier today. This price also includes the deduction from the builders standard 75mm cove cornice.
Was yours from Boral gogo65?

No ours is not an actual cornice but a true shadowline, so it is a metal strip that the plasterboard is connected to.

This sort of shows how it works, the photo on the right

In comparison to the CSR cornice they market as shadowline(I assume the boral is similar?

JKay · Nov 13, 2012 2:59 pm

Thanks for that info GG.
As you have pointed out, the bottom comparison is the one we are looking at.
Interested in the true shadow line though. Looks great. Especially if it is going to save us $k's.

tengals · Nov 13, 2012 3:16 pm

90mm cove upstairs

square set downstairs