putting up coving and boxing pipes - which order!?!

[sedderse]

Hello,

First post so be gentle

Currently decorating my hallway and I'm going to be putting up coving to hide the unsightly ceiling/wall joins but i have central heating pipes running up the walls and along the top of the skirting which I'd also like to box in.

Should I take the boxing all the way up to the ceiling, cove up to one edge of the boxing, stop and then start start run a new length of coving from the other side of the boxing or is there a tidy way to take the boxing up to the new coving only?

Thanks for any help.

Sedders

 

[gregers]

why dont you put the coving round the boxing.

 

[joe-90]

It'll look very dated. Simply fix up the unsightly ceiling/wall joints and paint the lot - pipes too. Boxing and coving are very 1980s.