Skirting boards - too much choice!

[littlemissneela]

I'm just starting to look at skirting boards as I want to replace all of ours when we refurb pur house. The current ones are original council house ones, quite small and look plastic with the many years of gloss paint of various colours. I believe the original base colour is black which my dad says is near on impossible to remove (he has a similar house around the corner from us).
I am thinking of oiled natural wood (would love oak, but think its out of our price range) skirting with white panel doors. Would this work? I have seen plenty of pictures in Google of white skirting with natural doors, but not the other way round.
I quite like the ogee shape boards www.britishhardwoods.co.uk/ogee-european-oak-skirting-board.html but am open to suggestions.

I had these in one room
Loved them

how old is the house, and do you want to style it according to a bygone age? Do you have panelled doors and picture rails?

Larger rooms can take taller skirtings. Kitchens and bathrooms suit something plain like a pencil round.

The property is a 1935 ex council house, and I would like to make it more a farmhouse cottage cosy style. Def NOT modern and clutter free
I picture reclaimed pine/oak panelled doors, with the downstairs ones having glazed top panels.
I'm not sure if the kitchen will have any wall space free to even have skirting in there.
The bathroom currently doesn't have any, and is part of a 1980s extension so has slightly taller skirting in the hallway and the bedroom off it.
There are no picture rails, but we do have coving and a nice arch next to the chimney breast in the living room. We plan to get a wood burner in there in the future.
I shall look up the pencil round you mentioned.

OK, a 1935 house can have fancy skirting. Pref get Architrave to match (you can do it one room at a time, as you redecorate/remodel.

Also look at Torus, which is similar but less fancy than Ogee.

I picture yours as being 6" - 8" high.

The house is like this one, but in a different road www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=44220534&sale=89692905&country=england I think 6-8" would be too tall. We were thinking approx 4". I'll look up the torus as well.

4" is common for modern houses with mean little plain skirtings, but I don't think I've ever seen a fancy one that small.

the house in the pic has a plastic door (!) and windows, so old-style skirtings would not match.

Yes, so does ours, but we will be changing it to a wooden one in the near future. I would love to replace the windows but thats not a priority.
Anyway, I was just after suggestions for style and if oiled wood skirting would go with white doors, but in thinking about it more today, we have decided on wood finish of both

We have ogee skirting , and when we needed to replace some after dh did some wood floors it was impossible to buy in the 4" at a reasonable price , so he bought the taller one and just cut it down to size as the fancy bit is the same size on the tall as the short IYSWIM . Would have cost a lot more to buy the shorter stuff from an online place than the taller stuff from B&Q .

Good to know, thank you. I think we shall have a look at the 6" as the carpet hides a good inch of the skirting.

Is it easy to put new skirting on? Would you do it yourself? Just asking as my builder has left a few snagging jobs one of which is no skirting boards in our new extension and I am just wondering wether I should do them myself (if it is easy!)

My dh does everything himself , there's a lot of cutting involved and angles so I don't think it's that simple to make it look like a professional finish though . I'm sure with a bit of practice it would be ok to do .