No matter how thoughtful the interior of a particular room, it is the installation of the baseboard that will give it a complete finish. It should also be noted that modern plinths on the floor perform not only the role of a decorative element that emphasizes the parameters of the room. With their help, you can install hidden electrical wiring, fix the floor covering (for example, keep linoleum from wrapping), hide minor repair flaws.
Types of skirting boards for floors
Depending on different parameters, skirting boards are divided into several types. The first parameter is the material of manufacture (plastic, wood, MDF, metal).
Each of these skirting boards has its own distinctive characteristics, its advantages and disadvantages, and it is worth choosing them, given the interior style. For example:
- plastic skirting boards in the interior in the style of eco -mauveton, a sign of bad taste;
- skirting boards made of wood are expensive, but they are ideally combined with parquet, laminate or natural board floor;
- plinth of MDF is almost an ideal choice in the price-quality ratio, but they are not resistant to mechanical impact, and it is not advisable to install them in "loaded" premises;
- the same almost ideal option - skirting on the floor of metal (especially aluminum) - durable, resistant to external influences, easy to install and maintain. But! Such skirting boards, more likely, will approach for registration of offices, and in premises they will be pertinent for an interior in industrial style.
Separately it is necessary to tell about ceramic skirtings for a floor. Such plinths are an ideal option on the floor in the bathroom (the floor-wall joint is protected, the interior acquires completeness and harmony). Usually, such skirting boards come complete with tiles.
Of course, skirting boards differ in height (width) and color palette. Mounting narrow, but high skirting on the floor will allow to install furniture very close to the wall. In addition, the installation on the floor of a wide plinth allows you to hide sufficiently large gaps between the wall and the floor, without resorting to additional construction work.
How to choose a plinth for the floor?
One of the criteria for choosing skirting boards is their color compatibility or, in contrast, contrast with the floor, walls or interior objects (furniture, doors). For example, if the walls and the floor are light, then the dark plinth will perfectly emphasize the contours of the room. And in the interior with white doors , platbands, furniture, the white skirt for the floor will perfectly fit.