Skirting boards are one of the 3 joinery things discovered on wall surfaces in Victorian homes, the various other being photo rails and also dado rails. Skirting boards are the only wall surface joinery thing to have actually survived to the here and now day.

The modest skirting board has had quite a past. Originally a functional item rather than an attribute, it offered three vital objectives in the Victorian residence. The initial was to hide the unpleasant bottom advantage of plastered wall surfaces which were much more primitive compared to today's completely smoothed versions. The second was to protect the plasterwork from damage by massive furniture as well as feet. The last, as well as possibly the most important reason, was to hide evidence of increasing wet in per-damp-proof course residences.

Victorians nonetheless, never passed up a possibility to flaunt their condition and wide range. Rooms around the home existed in a pecking order system, where areas seen by guests were believed to be of more importance as they supplied an opportunity to display ones products. The size the skirting boards in a room as well as the information they consisted of was typically a great pen for the importance placed after that particular area. Whereas a parlour was specific to consist of ridiculously tall skirting boards, a cooking area would most likely have none whatsoever. As opposed to being simple level boards with a straightforward profile as they are today, they came to be intricate show-pieces. As well as, along with the plaster caving, were meant to give intimations of the timeless design found, as an example, on top as well as bottom of Greek and also Roman columns.

By late Victorian times the third objective had been made unimportant by damp-proof training course regulations, and in post-war times the first function had been made unimportant in several residential properties by the development of plasterboard building wall surfaces. By now nevertheless, the skirting board, along with the other things of joinery on the wall surface- the image rail and the dado, had grown right into a carefully crafted standing symbol and a mainstay in the British home.

The Victorian skirting typically made use of 2 sorts of design for their skirting, architraves, dado rails as well as picture rails- ogee and torus.

Victorian Style- Skirting Board Molding

Ogee is an S profile, or a double curve with one being concave as well as the other convex. Several instances, however, have several curves as opposed to just 2. The ogee layout is Arabic in origin as well as wased initially used in sanctuaries in the UK in the 14th century then discovered its method into mid course houses throughout the Gothic revival period when interior decoration for homes sought to ecclesiastical structures for motivation. Easier in vogue yet no less efficient, the torus includes a solitary huge convex curve.

Still extremely preferred in British homes, both layouts are now commonly offered in most big DIY establishments, although ogee styles are generally reserved for architraves, image rails as well as dado rails instead of skirting boards.