Plastering & Rendering

Victorian Ceiling Roses

Anonymous user 14 August 2019 - 9.24 PM

I have an lovely house built in the 1860's it has many of it's original features including plaster ceiling roses and coving. It's all covered in 100 years worth of paint and the detail has been lost and you can see there are bits missing … such as on the coving you can see it had little flowers all around and there are gaps where they are missing. The same on the roses the odd flower is missing. I love the old features of the house and the Victorian charm is what drew me to the house … the question is can the original features be saved? is it worth saving or is it simply better to replicate that charm by tearing down the old roses/coving and having new 'victorian' style coving put up in replacement. It does seem a crime to tear down something that has been there a 160 years but I honestly don't even know where to start with it. We need the electric's doing so we need to make a decision on how to handle the old ceilings. At the ceilings themselves are wallpapered and that was done in the 70's/80's but I also know wallpapering ceilings was very much the done thing in the 1800's so I don't even know if the wallpaper is the only thing holding up the ceiling.