Interior Design Ideas: Choosing Your Skirting Boards6639732

It would be difficult to debate that choosing architrave is regarded as the exciting part of putting together an inside design scheme, but it is nevertheless important. It's details like these that make everything come together harmoniously. Not only must are put complement the design aesthetically but they also need to tick the required practicality boxes. They were originally designed to hide the gap between the wall as well as the floor and protect the wall from feet, furniture, floor cleaners 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 give 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, in order to provide quick access.

Today skirting boards are becoming more than just a functional 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 a wide variety within the wooden category. Various kinds of wood, different finishes, painted or not are just a few of the options you can chose from. Mouldings have become increasingly less popular and so 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 facet of your skirting board that you will need 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 complete house's skirting or developing a new property then a height with the walls ought to be the number one consideration - the greater the walls, the higher the boards. Remember about radiators (buying skirting board that does not fit underneath the piping is a costly mistake!)

If you have skirting within your property that you like and wish to put in another room but aren't able to find them anywhere don't get worried, a quality joiner can replicate that which you are after. One of the better pieces of advice we could give is to locate pictures online of a complete interior design scheme that you like and have a close look at the skirting board. Ask yourself - would the work well within my property? This can be much better than locating a skirting board which you like the look of and trying to make it work in your house's interior design.