Top Four Helpful Tips to Help You Choose the Perfect Skirting Option for Your Home
Skirting boards denotes an architectural design that can give a satin finish to rooms in your house. As such, when considering skirting options for your home décor, it’s important to know their purpose to ensure you choose the right one that suits your home needs. Below are some tips to help you select a suitable skirting option for your home.
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1. Style
Some unique and quite atypical skirting board styles are used in modern homes, such as recessed skirting or shadow gaps. However, it’s important to be consistent in your choice regardless of the period of traditional or modern skirting you opt for. Further, it’s important to note that disparate period skirting can be very peculiar in terms of curves, ridges, or moldings. As such, it's advisable to avoid putting two styles together. That said, you may also need to consider not only architrave but also coving as well as dado rails.
2. Color
Color schemes are a major feature in getting a room right, or allowing different rooms and corridors to blend. Besides, while it’s common to use skirting boards as well as architrave as a way to create contrast, you can also use them to produce some ingenious variation. In essence, both can work depending on the style of your house as well as other furniture styles you may have in mind. Most people tend to opt for white walls or colored skirtings. In this sense, any color may work provided they complement the rest of the room and give a good overall look.
3. Materials
It’s important not to forget the importance of the material you intend to use for skirting purposes. MDF, for instance, is widely used in contemporary homes. This material is cheap and affordable, which is great, especially if you are on a budget. On the other hand, wooden skirting that may include oak, pine, tulipwood or sapele also have some advantages such as its durability and adaptability to various styles. Besides, natural wood types are easy to machine, in addition to their versatility when it comes to the type of finish needed, whether oiled, varnished, sanded down, or painted.
4. Finishing
There’re different ways to help you finish your desired skirting option, depending on the material that you choose as well as the style of your room. For instance, you may consider using oils or varnish to improve or restore the natural look of wood. In essence, such a consideration may produce a more visible appeal and add some longevity to the skirting option you feel is ideal for your home. For example, if you want to paint natural wood skirting, you can go for a gloss finish to create a fascinating feature in your home.
Conclusion
When choosing your skirting boards, for instance, it’s important to consider viable materials to echo not only the nature but also the function of your rooms. On the same note, you also need to consider longevity as well as how often you plan to replace your skirtings.
Author: Esme Wang
