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Almost every British house has skirting boards. It's a detail you hardly notice as they're always there. But the plain painted board at the base of every room is the last surviving part of a much more elaborate classical interior finish that once covered the whole wall. A modern Period MDF skirting board (170mm) against original pine floorboards and a cast iron fireplace. The profile echoes Victorian joinery but the board is late-twentieth-cen… Read more

You walk past them dozens of times a day without thinking about it. Architraves are the decorative mouldings that frame your doors and windows, covering the gap between the frame and the wall. Every internal door in a typical house has them, and most windows do too. Quick answer: Architraves are the strips of moulding that go around your doors (and sometimes windows). They cover up gaps between the frame and wall, protect the plaster edges from… Read more