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How to choose skirting boards to compliment a minimalist interior.

There are many ways in which you can introduce dado rails and picture rails making them a feature in your home that focuses on style not practicality.

Home renovation can be both costly and time consuming and admittedly skirting boards may not be right at the top of your priority list. However, there are some subtle changes you can make which will really help transform any space that don't have to cost an arm and a leg. Wanting to change up the look in your home is completely natural and your skirting board design shouldn't fall short of the standard of the rest of the room. We have come up with a few ways in which you can transform the skirting boards within your home and be out with the old and in with the new.

There are similarities between skirting boards and architrave as products, but they aren’t exactly the same, and serve different purposes. Skirting board is designed to be fitted around the perimeter of a room, fixed to the wall where it meets the floor. Architrave, however, is generally much thinner than skirting board and is fitted around doors where the (most likely wooden) door frame meets the plaster.

The main function of a skirting board is to protect walls from damage. Walls are particularly vulnerable to knocks and scuffs around their base as people in the home go about their daily lives. Skirting boards act as a barrier that stops plaster being cracked or broken.

An overview of our modern skirting board ideas for contemporary interiors.

This blog explains how to fit plinth blocks and rosettes to perfectly transition between skirting boards and architrave.

The easiest and most popular method for fixing skirting boards in place is to use a combination of a grab adhesive with nails. Here is our video guide to fixing skirting boards with nails and adhesive.

A simple guide to demonstrate how to make sure you order the correct size window board for your home.

One frequent cause of confusion for people coming to our website centres around what an ‘architrave set’ is and what the difference is between single and double sets.