Interior Design Ideas: How to Choose Your Skirting Boards1816211

It would be difficult to reason that choosing skirting boards is easily the most exciting section of putting together an enclosed design scheme, but it is nevertheless important. It's details like these that make everything work together harmoniously. Not only must they can fit complement the style aesthetically they also need to tick the necessary practicality boxes. They were originally built to hide the space between the wall as well as the floor and protect the wall from feet, furniture, vacuums and floor polish. With wooden floors a skirting board is completely essential as a result of natural movement, expansion and contraction around the flooring. In older properties where embedding pipes and cables into the wall isn't an alternative they also offer you a way to hide these unsightly necessities. In new builds it's becoming more and more popular to set electrical cables and pipework into the skirting boards anyway, only to provide quick access.

Today skirting boards have become more than just a practical feature. They now include a wide variety of mouldings and are available in a number of materials. Unsurprisingly wooden skirting remains t most widely used. There's obviously a wide variety within the wooden category. Several types of wood, different finishes, painted or otherwise not are just a some of the options it is possible to chose from. Mouldings are getting to be increasingly less popular and therefore are only really recommended if you're going for a very traditional look. But mouldings can 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. The first thing you must ensure is that there is consistency throughout the property, varying heights look very strange. If you are redoing the entire house's skirting or developing a new property then your height of the walls needs to be the number one consideration - the higher the walls, the larger the boards. Remember about radiators (buying skirting board which doesn't fit beneath the piping can be a costly mistake!)

When you have skirting within your property that you like and would like to put in another room but cannot find them anywhere don't worry, a quality joiner can replicate what you're after. One of the best pieces of advice we could give is to find pictures online of a complete interior design scheme that you want and have a close look at the skirting board. Ask yourself - would the project well in my property? This can be much better than getting a skirting board that you want the look of and trying to make it work in your house's interior design.