Curved wall base and wood floor

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Hi all,

I'm considering fitting a solid wooden floor in my new flat. The flat is in an art deco building built in the 30s. Where the base of the wall meets the floor is not a neat right angle, it is in fact curved, which I'm guessing is a period feature.

This means the floor will have to stop a noticeable distance from the wall, and the gap can't be hidden by normal skirting boars.

Anyone come across this before or got any clever solutions to finish off the edging neatly.
 
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I've not come across your situation before although I've worked on a fair few places that were almost unintentionally so out of square. I'm assuming you must currently have a solid masonry floor. As I see it the easiest method is to leave a gap and fill that gap with a cork strip. One like this http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Cork...match||plid|&gclid=CL7hhLH_98oCFQrpwgodhq8E1g
I've fitted that before and it can be a pain but with a little care can do the job. Another possibility , although it would involve a lot more work , would be to cut a channel into the wall deep enough for the boards to pass into with an expansion gap behind or literally inside the wall.
If you can perhaps post a few pictures?
 
Cutting a channel would be way too much work. I'm thinking that finding a nice edging may be the best and easiest solution.
 

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Are you concerned about keeping the detail? If not it could be quite possible to form a box skirting over it without the work of removing. That would give you cover for the edge of the flooring.
 

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