The stunning skirting boards

[BourbonBon]

Shopping for skirting boards this morning and the bloke in the shop showed us this beading that you put on top of the floor and up to the skirting boards.

He said “have you thought about using these? They look stunning when done against skirting boards”

Stunning. As anyone ever been stunned by someone else’s skirting boards?

YABU - yes, I have on occasion gone into someone’s house and almost fainted at their amazing skirting boards

YANBU - no, it was a stupid thing to say and you’re right to still be annoyed about it hours later

I do love a good skirting board tbh

I have PVC ones

Cost a fortune but no more painting

I well remember the skirting boards in the Sistine Chapel, now those are skirting boards to stun a sensitive person.

Wasn’t there something in the press recently where a celeb announced something like a break up by saying “never mind look at these fabulous skirting boards”?

I do love nice joinery.
I hate my skirting boards and dream of getting beautiful new ones😊

You need to expand your vocabulary OP, you're confusing stunning used as an adjective with stunning used as a verb.

To be 'still a bit fuming about it' hours later suggests therapy might be helpful.

I have seen some stunning skirting boards, which had been ebonised then inlaid with mother of pearl.

Don't normally come across that sort of thing in a shop though, they tend to be custom made.

We have similar in the bogs at work.

5/10; adequate.

7/10; marks deducted for the sockets and hoover scuffs.

I just googled black skirting board and it was just one of the stunning range of possibilities .

I often notice skirting boards. Especially lovely high Victorian ones.

We've got beading in one room for just this reason. The skirting was already there, and DH laid an engineered wood floor. We didn't want remove all our Victorian skirting boards, lay the floor and put the skirting back, so we put some beading round the edge.

It looks just fine, in fact now I'm thinking perhaps it looks stunning .

My house is Edwardian
The skirting boards are beautiful and 1 reason I bought the house
They are about 30 cms high with dips, curve and grooves- very art nouveau

Sadly we are missing about 12 feet and it is £500 to get it made!

Isn’t that beading the shitty thing you have to use when for whatever reason you’re doing things in the wrong order and having your flooring laid after your skirting boards are already on? As in, you would never actually choose it but sometimes have to make do if it’s not feasible to remove and redo all of your skirting boards?

When I repainted mine with water based gloss white paint, yup I've been saying wow they've looking stunning for so long. No more yellowing, no more repainting wohoo!

Beading always looks crap IMO!

I removed the old skirting when laying the new floor. I then had the job of doing 28 stunningly beautiful, mitred corners in my odd shaped living room.

My skirting is indeed stunning.

@Igniteyourbones Thanks for the picture. They are very striking (not meant sarcastically), I can see why someone commented on them. I think they look lovely.

I think the word stunning is completely overused and often the ‘stunning’ thing or person is never worthy of it, in particular estate agents describing a house as stunning but when you open the link it is anything but, a bog standard house with a bland interior in most cases, same when a slightly above average looking person are often described as stunning, the word has lost its true meaning.

Of you live in an older house with wonky floors and don't want to replace all the original skirting boards they help cover the gaps and may help woth draught proofing.

OMG I think I'm living in some sort of parallel universe...!

@BourbonBon "stunning" is not a word I'd ever think of relating to skirting boards!!

I bought expensive new curtains, and wanted a new curtain pole. Shop quoted £360 for what I wanted, which was lovely... but, as I said at the time, nobody ever goes, "my god I love your curtain pole" - so I bought something a little less perfect for a lot less money!

I think that qualifies as a dado, not skirting.

the curve is clever, though oddly disorienting.

www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/663788432553510851/

There are some rather nice period skirting boards and architraves out there but I wouldn’t describe them as stunning.

Also, they can harbours lot of extra dust.

Relax.

He was just trying to sell you something.

Those interiors were designed for people who have a housemaid.

I lived next door to a wonderful old lady who had started her working life as a housemaid ( she ascended to being housekeeper in charge of the London hose, the Cotswold house and the private train that the family travelled in to Scotland every summer).

She told me that the maids used to sweep the floors after the family had gone into dinner, so that they were pristine when the ladies withdrew to the drawing room again. Of course , they were swept every morning, as well.

Yeah, to be annoyed and dwelling on is a bit weird