Latest and best trends for skirting?

[nadimaj]

Hi all,

Got to do the entire house (4 bed + loft), what's in and what's out?

No budget in mind.

Thanks

 

[motorbiking]

simple rounded white "wood". Bull nose.

 

[foxhole]

Anything you like .

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Just finishing a mill conversion, all modern apartments - the door casings do not have any architraves at all, instead they arevthicker than normal (for stiffness) have a 10mm shadow gap around the outside (double skin PB with shadow gap beads) and square edge skirtings. Last couple of new build jobs I've done work on (mainly setting up the sales suites) the apartments have had square edge skirtings and architraves, too.

 

[johnny2007]

The boss has always liked ogee.
Personally I couldn't care less, as long as the doors work.

 

[RandomGrinch]

What period is your house?
I found http://www.metresdirect.co.uk had a good range of skirtings and provided a depth and height of skirting that was a lot more in keeping with our Victorian house.
They were also a really good company to deal with when I needed extra lengths.

 

[^woody^]

Skirting is soooooo last century

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Skirting is soooooo last century

Yes, indeed. Why would anyone ever need to protect the plasterwork at the bottom of the wall from getting damaged? Seems like a pretty pointless thing to install - unless you are a chippy and you've got a vested interest in installing skirting boards.

 

[^woody^]

Yes, indeed. Why would anyone ever need to protect the plasterwork at the bottom of the wall from getting damaged? Seems like a pretty pointless thing to install - unless you are a chippy and you've got a vested interest in installing skirting boards.

Plaster work? That's soooooo last millennia.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

You know, I'm beginning to wonder when you'll say that walls are soooo last eon

 

[SFK]

walls are soooo last eon

https://www.archdaily.com/60259/ad-classics-the-glass-house-philip-johnson

 

[RandomGrinch]

https://www.archdaily.com/60259/ad-classics-the-glass-house-philip-johnson

I prefer the Barcelona Pavilion, but then again does my opinion matter?
DIY forums are soooo last epoch

 

[SFK]

Fully agree. The water features make it more livable ( I presume).


This makes for a good read - what it is like to live in a glass house from pov of architect daughter.
https://www.archdaily.com/892896/gr...hter-of-an-uncompromising-modernist-architect

 

[RandomGrinch]

I've always wondered how different the perception of modernism would have been if Corbusier, Mies and Wright had the technology we have today to make their buildings work...and if their ideals hadn't been cheapened by the ubiquitous 60's concrete estates and tower blocks!

 

[^woody^]

I've always wondered how different the perception of modernism would have been if Corbusier, Mies and Wright had the technology we have today to make their buildings work...and if their ideals hadn't been cheapened by the ubiquitous 60's concrete estates and tower blocks!

Nothing wrong with concrete estates (well apart from some quality issues). The aspiration and ideal was sound, but it was the occupants who messed things up.