Interior Design Ideas: How to pick Your Skirting Boards5607166

It might be difficult to debate that choosing skirting boards is easily the most exciting section of putting together an interior design scheme, but it's nevertheless important. It's details genuinely that make everything come together harmoniously. Not only must are put complement the design aesthetically they also need to tick the necessary practicality boxes. These were originally designed to hide the visible difference between the wall and also the floor and protect the wall from feet, furniture, vacuum cleaners and floor polish. With wooden floors a skirting board is totally essential as a result of natural movement, expansion and contraction on 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 is becoming more and more popular to put electrical cables and pipework into the skirting boards anyway, in order to provide easy accessibility.

Today skirting boards are becoming more than just a practical feature. They now come with a wide variety of mouldings are available 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 otherwise not are just a some of the options you are able to chose from. Mouldings have become increasingly less popular and are only really recommended if you are going for a very traditional look. But mouldings can give this often overlooked feature some real character.

Another part of your skirting board that you will want to decide upon will be the height. The very first thing you must ensure is that there is consistency through the entire property, varying heights look very strange. If you're redoing the complete house's skirting or building a new property then your height from the walls should be the number one consideration - the larger the walls, the greater the boards. Remember about radiators (buying skirting board that does not fit underneath the piping is a costly mistake!)

For those who have skirting within your property that you like and wish to put in another room but cannot find them anywhere don't worry, a quality joiner will be able to replicate what you are after. One of the best pieces of advice we could give is to find pictures online of a complete interior design scheme that you like and have a critical look at the skirting board. Consider - would this work well in my property? This is much better than finding a skirting board which you like the look of and looking to make it work in your house's interior design.