Interior Design Ideas: Choosing Your Skirting Boards2337481
It might be difficult to debate that choosing skirting boards is regarded as the exciting part of putting together an inside design scheme, but it's nevertheless important. It's details genuinely that make everything come together harmoniously. Not only must they fit complement the design aesthetically they also need to tick the required practicality boxes. These were originally made to hide the gap between the wall and the floor and protect the wall from feet, furniture, floor cleaners and floor polish. With wooden floors a skirting board is completely essential due to the natural movement, expansion and contraction about the flooring. In older properties where embedding pipes and cables into the wall isn't a choice they also provide you with a way to hide these unsightly necessities. In new builds it is becoming more and more popular to place electrical cables and pipework to the skirting boards anyway, simply to provide easy access.
Today skirting boards have grown to be more than just an operating feature. They now have a wide variety of mouldings are available in a number of materials. Unsurprisingly wooden skirting remains t most widely used. There's obviously all kinds within the wooden category. Various kinds of wood, different finishes, painted or not are just a several options you can 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 is the height. First thing you must ensure is that there is consistency throughout the property, varying heights look very strange. In case you are redoing the whole house's skirting or building a new property then the height from the walls ought to be the number one consideration - the larger the walls, the larger the boards. Do not forget 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 will like and wish to put in another room but cannot find them anywhere don't get worried, a quality joiner can replicate what you're after. One of the better pieces of advice we can give is to locate pictures online of an entire interior design scheme that you like and have a close look at the skirting board. Think about - would this work well within my property? This can be much better than finding a skirting board that you want the look of and looking to make it work in your house's interior design.
