Interior Design Ideas: How to Choose Your Skirting Boards353998
It might be difficult to argue that choosing window cill is 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 fit complement the design aesthetically they also need to tick the mandatory practicality boxes. These were originally made to hide the gap between the wall and also the floor and protect the wall from feet, furniture, vacuums and floor polish. With wooden floors a skirting board is absolutely essential because of the natural movement, expansion and contraction about the flooring. In older properties where embedding pipes and cables in to the wall isn't an alternative they also provide you with a way to hide these unsightly necessities. In new builds it really is 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 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 an impressive selection within the wooden category. Different types of wood, different finishes, painted or otherwise are just a few of the options you can chose from. Mouldings are getting to be increasingly less popular and therefore are only really recommended if you are going for a very traditional look. But mouldings can provide this often overlooked feature some real character.
Another part of your skirting board that you will want to decide upon will be the height. First thing you must ensure is that there is consistency through the property, varying heights look very strange. If you are redoing the entire house's skirting or developing a new property then your height from the walls needs to be the number one consideration - the larger the walls, the larger the boards. Remember about radiators (buying skirting board that does not fit under the piping is really a costly mistake!)
For those who have skirting inside your property that you really like and would like to put in another room but can't find them anywhere don't be concerned, a quality joiner should be able to replicate that which you are after. One of the best pieces of advice we are able to give is to find pictures online of a whole interior design scheme that you like and have a critical look at the skirting board. Ask yourself - would the project well in my property? This really is much better than getting a skirting board that you want the look of and trying to make it operate in your house's interior design.
