How to choose the right skirting boards for your home – Aesthetics Leave a comment

The aesthetics of your home are a crucial part of deciding which style of skirting to go for. The skirting, along with other mouldings like dado rail, architrave and panelling, are usually the finishing touches, it’s important to identify which style you’re going for. At skirting UK, we supply modern, traditional and period profiles, accommodating the extensive range of interior design styles.

Traditional profiles:

If your space has a traditional or regency design, usually drawing influence from 19th century Europe and earlier, you may find that our traditional range of skirting will best suit your interiors. Traditional skirting profiles like Ogee 1, lambs tongue and Torus are bold profiles and look great as tall skirting boards. Providing an excellent finishing touch to your traditional space, these profiles also look great as dado rails.

Period profiles:

Period skirting profiles like Victorian, Tudor and Windsor, have more detail than traditional and modern profiles. Their designs are usually bigger and really stand out, particularly when paired with a matching architrave. Adding an element of character, period profiles are best suited to spaces of their period, but also work nicely with art deco and transitional interior designs.

Modern profiles:

Modern profiles are ideal for minimalist, contemporary and you guessed it, modern interior designs. These simple, yet elegant profiles have very little detail. This in itself can compliment a living space nicely as they can add texture to a plain wall or purely used as protection for high traffic areas. This style of skirting is very versatile, used in commercial and residential buildings. Examples like Bullnose and Square Edge are perfect as a simple design while Burford or Bullnose Wide Groove add a little detail and look excellent with matching architraves. The Square Edge profile is a common one used for wall panelling too, which is complimentary to most interior styles.

Ultimately, the decision is yours, and with so many options of which profiles you can go for, you can have fun learning what works best for your rooms. We do recommend ordering samples in various profiles and styles. We hope this helps with your decision! It’s important to note that this is just a guide, interior designs tend to cross over, and what may work for one won’t always work for the other.

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