Any ideas for creating a large paintable cove crown molding with a radius of 6 – 8″ or so?
I’ll soon be starting a restoration/remodel project on an 1880s home. The owner has a photo from Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers showing a large cove cornice which is then covered with a border paper, and she wants to have something similar. Making something solid seems prohibitive in cost and weight, so lately I’ve been tinkering with the idea of attaching a thin material to cove shaped brackets spaced along the cornice.
I’ve already experimented with 1/4″ ply and masonite, but found them to be too rigid. I’ve considered metal or plastic, but am concerned about the paint and paper sticking, as well as with expansion and contraction.
I’m really a trimmer/woodworker, so my experience with other materials is rather limited. Would 1/4″ drywall take that tight a radius? Any other options come to mind? Any help would be most appreciated.
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There are preformed cove molding made for that purpose, exactly like dry wall, gypsm core and paper faced. I think they come in different sizes too. Very easy to work with.
Tom
What about some type of dryvit or plaster screen and built up coats of Plaster? I really have no clue. I am just stirin the pot.
What about some type of dryvit or plaster screen and built up coats of Plaster? I really have no clue. I am just stirin the pot.
I would use the preformed plastic plaster in cove, but if the look doesn't pass and you want to form your own radius, there's a bendable ply available. The bending can either be ordered the 4' way or the 8' way. You might be able to bend it that tight, you'd have to check. I might have a scrap in the shop, lemme know. Bendable plywood comes from my plywood supplier.
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Can't recall the name right now but there are styrafoam pieces that are attached by setting in SR mud. That sounds like the ticket here.
For wood cove/crown that large I call Dykes Lumber in the NY City/ New Jersey area.
I used 6" PVC pipe one time for a similar project. I split it into 3rds. then countersunk and screwed it in place.I furred it off the wall and ceiling with 1 by and put a small cove mold on top and bottom . Mitering the corners was a pain ,but the owners were satisfied and I was pleased with the overall look.
Be hard to stick wallpaper or paint to that though.
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Make a steel template or have one made and get some plaster, build a trought and make the molding. Sounds like the kind of job where this may be the answer. The other way I would attempt it would be make a 3" or 4" cove that could be mated with itself to form a larger cove by reversing the second piece. Skip
I cant find my copy of Outwater Plastic Industries but I thought that I saw something like that in there book. I've heard of the Styrofoam things but haven't seen it used, I know that the penthouse that we are working in has fypon(sp?) cove with a radius of approx. 9 to 10 inches. I think its rather expensive though and almost everybody that has seen it says that it will shrink some at the joints over time.
Doug