Decorative Plaster Repair
Ceiling medallions, ornamental panels and relief work, repaired and recast to the original pattern.
01Overview
Ornament rarely fails all at once. One quadrant of a medallion stays crisp while another is lost, and the sound one is the pattern for the repair.
Decorative plaster can almost never be replaced with stock pieces. We look at whether the original can be stabilized, repaired, or reproduced from the best surviving detail.
Because these details repeat, a sound section is nearly always available to work from, which is what makes a faithful repair possible.
Heavy paint build-up is its own problem. Removing it carefully often recovers more of the original crispness than any amount of new material.
02How we approach it
Keep what is sound. Match what is missing.
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Find a sound repeat
Ornament repeats around a medallion or along a border. The best surviving repeat becomes the pattern.
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Recover what paint has buried
Where layers of paint have softened the detail, careful removal brings the original edges back.
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Recast what is lost
A mould is taken from the sound repeat and missing ornament is cast, set in line and blended.
03An example
A medallion, before and after
Drag the handle, or just scroll. The missing quadrant is recast from the ornament that survived.
Illustrative images, generated to show the approach. They will be replaced with photographs of our own projects.
Scroll, or drag the handle04Related services
Other original details we restore
05Start here
Have a detail you want to save?
Send photos of the molding, cornice, ceiling detail or railing. We look at every request ourselves and tell you whether it can be repaired, matched or recreated, before anyone schedules a visit.