Interior Design Ideas: How to Choose Your Skirting Boards4382647

It would be difficult to argue that choosing skirting board is the most exciting part of putting together an inside design scheme, but it's nevertheless important. It's details such as these that make everything interact harmoniously. Not only must they can fit complement the design aesthetically they also need to tick the mandatory practicality boxes. These were originally made to hide the space between the wall and the floor and protect the wall from feet, furniture, vacuum cleaners and floor polish. With wooden floors a skirting board is absolutely essential due to the natural movement, expansion and contraction about the flooring. In older properties where embedding pipes and cables to the wall isn't a choice they also provide you with a way to hide these unsightly necessities. In new builds it's becoming more and more popular to put electrical cables and pipework in to the skirting boards anyway, in order to provide easy access.

Today skirting boards are becoming more than just an operating feature. They now come with a wide variety of mouldings and are avalable in a number of materials. Unsurprisingly wooden skirting remains t most popular. There's obviously an impressive selection within the wooden category. Several types of wood, different finishes, painted or not are just a few of the options you are able to chose from. Mouldings are getting to be increasingly less popular and are only really recommended if you are going for a very traditional look. But mouldings will give this often overlooked feature some real character.

Another facet of your skirting board that you will want to decide upon may be the height. First thing you must ensure is always that there is consistency through the entire property, varying heights look very strange. In case you are redoing the complete house's skirting or building a new property then a height with the walls should be the number one consideration - the higher the walls, the larger the boards. Remember about radiators (buying skirting board that does not fit under the piping can be a costly mistake!)

When you have skirting in your property that you like and would like to put in another room but cannot find them anywhere don't get worried, a quality joiner can replicate what you are after. One of the better pieces of advice we are able to give is to discover pictures online of an entire interior design scheme that you want and have a critical look at the skirting board. Think about - would the project well in my property? This can be much better than getting a skirting board that you like the look of and looking to make it work in your house's interior design.