Disappointed with skirting board finish

StuC75

With any method it depends on the extent that the floor is out, but with a taller skirting it would make for a better finish (as more to trim), it also lessens how much caulking is then needed if filling the bottom gaps. The eye would be more drawn to the top of the skirting and how it compares to the line of the radiator, rather than with the floor, and if the aesthetics are that bad 'you' would probably reconsider the decoration choices..

casper_g wrote: »

Really? I know it could be done that way, but I'd have thought the variation in the height of the skirting would look much worse than the way it's been done - especially if the floor and skirting were different colours and finishes. At the end of the day though, it's a question of aesthetics and there's no objective right way of doing it!

rach_k

I think it depends what you want the house to look like when it's done - do you want it to look like everything is original and it's been restored or do you want it to look like the old shell but with with all new skirting etc?

We have a Victorian house and the (original, nice) skirting is uneven - it's moved a bit with the house I think. When we had somebody round to quote for putting back a picture rail, he said that he would measure it down from the ceiling so it would not be completely level but it would be where it would have been if it'd been up since the house was built. I like that approach - I want things to look like they've been there forever, but if you want the 'new bits added onto old house' then get the skirting redone. I tend to think that something perfectly straight against a wonky old wall looks a bit strange.