Installing A Cove Ceiling: How to Jazz Up Your Home Project By Installing a Low Cost Ceiling Cove

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Builders, remodelers and do-it-yourselfers are always looking for quick, easy and affordable ways to spruce up their home projects. Upgrading the ceiling treatment over and above a standard ceiling is one of the most common ways to accomplish this task. There are several ways to accomplish this, depending on your budget and the desired effect. Adding a coffered ceiling, a barrel ceiling, a groin vault, or a ceiling dome dramatically upgrades the room appearance.

On the other hand, if you want a quick, easy and inexpensive way to add a touch of class to your ceilings, convert your sharp wall-to-ceiling transitions to a smooth radius transition by adding coving. Just add a curved section of framing from each wall stud to the ceiling rafter. This will round off your corners and give a more elegant look to the room once dry-walled. The easiest way to do this is to use a product I´ve found from a company that specializes in curved framing applications: Archways and Ceilings Made Easy.

They sell coving in a great variety of radii. The product is also very reasonably priced. You can cove a 10 ft x 10 ft room in less than an hour for under $200! They also guarantee a perfect and consistent radius.

In addition to just a traditional coved ceiling, there are lots of other ways to use this product. One common way is to cove the wall-ceiling interface, and then step in 12" – 18" and add a soffit. This two step approach really looks great. You can also mix and match this approach, such as: 1) cove to square soffit; 2) square corners to coved soffit; 3) cove to coved soffit; or even cove to oval soffit.

Once you try the current curved framing innovations available to you, you´ll find yourself getting addicted. There is no such thing as too much and there is almost an endless variety of curved ceiling treatments you can use to really have your home projects stand out from the crowd. Try coved ceilings first. Coved ceilings are the easiest and least expensive way to add that touch of class.

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