Tag: plaster

Black Friday – Black plaster

 

As the Black Friday sales seems to be the hot topic of the day I put together some inspirational pictures of how to use black Cornice, Centrepieces and Plaster mouldings. I hope you find something you like, and if you’re not keen on the black, plaster can be painted in any colour you like

All pictures are found on Pinterest, great for inspiration for absolutely everything, find us there as Carlow Cornice.

 

Starting off with some opulent eastern dreams…

I love how you can see the dark blue sky through the ceiling details.

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Here’s a more classic, gothic style ceiling, I really think the fine details striking in black

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This is my favorite of the week, I have a real hankering for trying something similar, it’s nearly as if the Centrepieces have melted together. Love how the photo is taken in the mirror.
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I admit, this is cheating, it’s in charcoal rather than black, but it was too nice not to add!

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Such as cozy room, black isn’t only for the modern look, it’s a great frame for any room, no matter what style
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Cornice is often left out of the bathroom, it’s such a shame, just see how stylish this finish is.

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And for the last pic, something very modern. If you like spots or strip lights we can encase them in a design of your choice, and why not elongate space by giving it a contrasting colour.7

Preparing for Halloween

In order to get ready for Halloween Carlow Cornice & Mouldings has dived  deep in to the dark depths of the internet to find some pretty scary places, with beautiful cornice, centrepieces and plaster work.

This is Denbigh Asylum, or North Wales Hospital, completed in 1848 it could room 200 patients with psychiatric illnesses. Victorian asylums is frequently featured in horror movies and novels, I can’t help to be fascinated by the beauty of the architecture in the places were they put to most marginalized people in society. As much as we love restoring old buildings and get out all the detail of the plaster work, I’m happy I don’t have to get on to this site. The hospital didn’t close until the mid 1990’s and performed lobotomy on patients well in to the 1940’s. Oh, and it is supposedly  haunted to.Denbigh Asylum

 

Take flight to Germany, and have a look at another institution. This is the Military Hospital in Beelitz, Germany. The hospital started as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients and became a military hospital in the First World War. This is were Adolf Hitler was treated for a leg wound acquired in 1916.

Looks like the setting of a romantic movie, unfortunately I’d say it contains more amputated limbs and gangrene…

Military Hosptal in Beelitz

Happy not to be on that examination table. More than likely the ceiling would have been framed by some ornate cornice.

Military Hosptal in Beelitz

Truly hauntingly beautiful. You can still make out the fantastic detailed plastered ceiling.

Military Hosptal in Beelitz

Perhaps to beauty of the ornate cornice and plaster mouldings helped with the healing process?

Military Hosptal in Beelitz

Moving down on the continent, take a trip to Chateau Miranda in Belgium. A Neo-Gothic castle, it has been abandoned since 1991, and the owning family is refusing financial aid to restore this once orphanage, wonder why…

Chateau Miranda in Belgium

Look at this two fantastic rooms, the plaster finished arches, so typical for the architectural period. The fantastic details framing the windows can easily be done in plaster, if any reader is after some Gothic-revival!

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Let’s finish up with what Halloween has come to be about; fun, games and horror!

Here are some abandoned amusement parks to help you sleep at night

Spree Park Berlin
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Gullivers Kingdom Yamanashi Japan

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Six Flags; New Orleans
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Making your design dreams come through

As sleek as possible or 100 hundred roses, whatever you want we can make. If you have a design you want for cornice, centrepiece, a door surround or any type of ornament inside and out, let us know and we can make it happen!

 

In modern design plaster work can give a great impact. It provides texture and inspires creative thinking.  Get inspired by these powerful pictures

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By Nashville based Heather Thompson, painter and designer

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Wall designed for SFMoMA Exhibition Sensate: Bodies and Design in 2009 by Matsys a San Francisco based design studio that appears to constantly challenge the idea of design. The exhibition  was the combined works to represent new ways of thinking about the entanglement of human bodies and the designed world. All ideas that are so relevant to our home environment.

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Lobby at the 5 star St Regis Bal Harbour Resort on Miami Beach. Designed by Sieger Suarez Architectural Partnership

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Rooftop Bar, Upstairs at the Kimberly, New York City. Architect  Frank Denner

 

Restoration in the making!

Restoration takes up a large part of our work and is one of the most enjoyable things we know here at Carlow Cornice. To be a part of preserving the design heritage in Ireland is a real treat as well as a great responsibility.

At the moment we are restoring some beautiful mouldings in a listed building in

Dun Laoghaire. Just look at the before and after photos of the fantastic handmade Centrepiece, left half in a careless rebuild years ago

Half CP Dun Laoghaire
All that was left was this half piece with broken parts
Restored Centrepiece in Dun Laoghaire
All that’s missing now is a some paint and the original beauty of this Centrepiece will be restored. All the details have been handmade using traditional methods and materials in our Carlow factory