A win-win option is white skirting boards with the same door and window frames. They can “make friends” with each other even colors that seem inappropriate at first glance, enliven the atmosphere, give it a solemn and elegant look.
- White plinth can be used in any room - in the living room and kitchen, in the bathroom or in the hallway.
- The plinth can be wide or narrow, in one line or in two.
- A white plinth emphasizes the geometry of the room, highlights the planes of the walls and changes the perception of volume - the room seems lighter and airier.
Let's consider several options for combining baseboards, floors and doors when decorating an apartment, and their role in shaping the interior.
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Wooden plinth is perfect for laminate flooring, as you can choose the perfect color and texture. It is usually made from pine or spruce, but you can find oak or alder. The molding can be veneered or made of solid wood.
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Light doors and baseboards, dark floors
The next way is to leave the floor dark, but decorate the doors to match the light or white baseboard. Although in this case it is better to use white with caution, since a door in this design can get dirty. To avoid having to wash it often, replace white with beige, gray or beautiful ivory.
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When decorating interior doors and baseboards in the same style and the same light shades, also make the walls as light as possible. Dark ones are not suitable for two reasons: firstly, they will make the doors and baseboards too contrasting against their background, and secondly, in the company of a dark floor covering they will greatly reduce the size of the entire room.
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But light walls in the company of the same doors, on the contrary, will help to visually raise the ceiling of the room and increase its space. And the remaining dark floor will make the interior palette more diverse, it will not look monotonous and boring.
Black
Graphic, dramatic, chic - designers love to use black in high-status interiors. And to avoid pretentiousness, they combine it with neutral, often white, walls and wooden floors.
Shades Cape Red No. 279, Jack Black No. 119, all Little Greene.
White
This is a classic option - it often refreshes the interior, looks visually light and elegant. The white plinth works especially expressively when paired with olive, ocher and beige walls. However, if you need to soften the feeling of bright walls, white baseboard is also a win-win solution.
Shades Muga #445, Wattle V #565, all from Paint & Paper Library. Next Room: Hunter Dunn #523, Paint & Paper Library.
Combination with colored doors
In modern home interiors, anything can take on the role of bright accents - even interior doors. That is why they are often made in color, deliberately highlighting them against the background of the entire room. How to choose a floor and plinth for such a door to get the most harmonious palette?
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Let's start with the flooring - it is better to make it darker in order to contrast the bright door and make its appearance even more impressive. And it’s better to finish this with dark colors by choosing white baseboards for the floor. Make the walls light to match the baseboard or decorate them with another bright color - both of these options will further enhance the contrast and brightness of the door.
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You should not use a black or other dark shade of plinth in such an interior, because it will significantly reduce the visual effect of the bright accent, which in this case is the door.
Bright accents
Decorating a room using contrasting color combinations of baseboards and doors always looks unconventional. This experiment is suitable when you want to move away from the classics and create a more modern design. In this stylistic decision, the choice of color should be made based also on the color of the furniture and walls. A bold decorative approach with a dark door and floor design and a white floor plank is considered one of the best combinations. In this case, the space becomes smaller, but the ceiling height is higher.
A white baseboard that matches the color of the doors, a photo of which is presented below, will complement the artistic picture. By creating a clear outline together with the platbands, the entrance structure will look impressive and original.
A thin and clear line of plinth and platband gives the room a special style and sophistication.
The combination of a bright door leaf with a white frame looks very bold and at the same time stylish in the interior. Rich door leaves with contrasting finishes allow you to achieve a spectacular combination in decoration. The main thing is that their color overlaps at least a little with the shades that were chosen to decorate the room. It is very important not to overdo it with a variety of colors, since their abundance can turn the room into an overly cheerful and uncomfortable kaleidoscope.
How such a combination of skirting boards in the color of the doors might look is shown in the photo.
Merging contrasts works well when their shades intersect with accessories, furniture and walls.
What is a floor plinth?
In the design of a room, the plinth is an indispensable element. Its main purpose is to close the joint between the floor and the wall. It provides reliable protection of the joint from the penetration of moisture and dirt, and also covers all imperfections. In addition, it also performs an important aesthetic function. It helps make the transition from one material and color to another smoother. With its help, you can give the interior solidity or lightness, add a little depth, or vice versa - create some intrigue in the design concept.
The main thing is to choose the right color for the baseboard for the floor or for the doors, so that all the details can be combined into a single expressive picture.
Selection of ceiling skirting boards
Traditionally, white ceiling moldings are installed. Of course, on sale you will find colored ceiling plinths and those imitating natural wood. However, they are not particularly popular. Next, we will tell you what this is connected with and why it is white.
On what basis should you choose ceiling molding?
The answer to the question why white ceiling moldings are so popular is very simple. White visually raises the ceilings and expands the room, while a wooden molding can easily have the opposite effect. Therefore, if your rooms are not very large or have low ceilings, it is best not to experiment, but to choose white baguettes made of foam plastic or other material. The photo below is a typical example of installing white moldings in a room with a low ceiling.
Ceiling plinth, plastic, white. It will visually enlarge a small room
Also, white is actively used in rooms decorated in Baroque or classical style. You can see an example of the first in the next photo. The white background of the border serves as an excellent basis for gold or silver ornaments. Agree, with such “heavy” color wallpaper, a wooden or wooden baseboard imitating it looked very cumbersome. And so we got a kind of lace to frame the ceiling. Hence the conclusion: with wallpaper of saturated colors it is better to use white, or another, but very light color.
How to choose the right ceiling molding: white looks best with dark wallpaper
Would completely different colors be appropriate?
Sometimes, looking at photographs of various interiors, you can come across rather unusual color combinations. Moreover, sometimes it is even impossible to imagine that completely different colors can be successfully combined. Doors and floors help to recreate the completeness of the designer's plan, and therefore their sometimes exotic colors will come in handy.
Options for such original solutions are presented below in numerous photos:
Conclusion
Creating harmony in a room using colors allows you to achieve the desired effect at minimal cost. In this case, any element, including the baseboard, carries a certain load. We talked about the general rules for selection and combination, to which you can make your own adjustments.
The video in this article will provide an opportunity to expand your knowledge on this topic. If you have any questions while reading the publication and after it, please ask them in the comments, we will be happy to answer them.
How to choose a countertop color
To make the interior look harmonious, you should definitely pay attention to the choice of shade of the countertop
General rules
The light countertop will organically fit into any style. It harmonizes equally well with light and dark kitchens. At the same time, light colors are considered very easily soiled and therefore require careful handling. Dark tones of the work surface are considered more practical. They can have a matte or glossy texture. It is quite acceptable to combine such shades with a dark or light set.
Frequent choice
There are several universal options that people choose most often. They go perfectly with any furniture options.
This shade is perfect for neutral countertops that act as a backdrop for furniture or a backsplash.
Black
This shade of the countertop looks very stylish. This option is well suited for large or medium-sized kitchens. It allows you to visually separate the upper and lower cabinets. This color fits organically into all styles.
Grey
A light gray countertop harmonizes perfectly with white or gray furniture. The dark shade looks laconic and fits into any style. It should be combined with gray and white items.
Door surface options
There are two main types:
- Matte. Noble matte interior door leaves fit perfectly with the overall design concept and create a truly amazing interior, filling the atmosphere with special comfort and notes of conservatism.
- Glossy. They look much fresher and more unusual, and due to the shine and brightness of the gloss, they give the room a presentable appearance and visually increase its area.
The photo shows a children's room and a white interior door with a matte surface.
Depending on the glossy or matte surface, the overall spatial perception can be significantly influenced or completely changed.
Which skirting board is suitable for uneven walls?
You can easily install any skirting board on perfectly leveled walls and use any type of installation - screws, nails, glue, rails, clips. If you are going to glue the plinth onto uneven walls, you will have to temporarily secure it additionally with self-tapping screws in the depressions, and then seal the cracks with sealant or putty.
But on uneven, rounded walls and columns it is most convenient to use flexible skirting boards. Many rigid polyurethane and duropolymer models have flexible analogues with the addition of rubber. They are also called rubber skirting boards. Or there is a flexible PVC skirting board in a roll. But I won’t even write about this monster.
Role in the interior
Initially, the plinth was used exclusively for protective purposes. It covered the unprotected gap between the floor and the wall, from which the wind blew and the cold blew in. This element also allows you to hide the builders’ flaws: unevenness or crooked cracks. For wall decoration, moisture-resistant materials that can easily withstand contact with household chemicals (paper wallpaper, plaster) are not always used. When wet cleaning floors without a baseboard, it is easy to catch an unprotected piece with a mop and ruin part of the coating. Inside the hollow models there is a special groove into which the wiring is placed. Skirting boards are an excellent camouflage for unsightly communication lines.
In modern versions, even a heating system can be placed inside the draft (the architectural designation of a relief “belt”), which will warm the room along the perimeter in parallel with the radiators. For decorative purposes, some models are equipped with backlight bulbs or sockets. An organically selected pair of floor plinth and ceiling fillet will unobtrusively emphasize the height of the walls.
Light floor and baseboard, dark door
When using light floors and dark doors with the same trim, you will get a very original and even eccentric interior design project in Moscow. Especially if you decorate the walls lightly so that the dark door stands out and contrasts as much as possible. The color of the floor can match the walls or be a couple of shades darker.
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Despite the fact that in the previous method the color of the doors and baseboards was the same and contrasting with the floor, with this finish it is better not to choose the combination of “light floor - dark baseboard” to match the dark door. The result will be a contrasting dark stripe, which will very strongly and unattractively separate the light walls and floors, and will also overly clearly indicate the geometry of the room - this will visually narrow its boundaries. You can make the trim around the doors as dark as possible.
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So, when choosing a dark door, decorate the floor plinth in the interior with white or another as light shade as possible. The main thing is that it combines harmoniously with the walls and flooring, without standing out too much and without creating additional contrast.
To match the wall color
There is no better solution if you need to visually “stretch” the walls, thereby raising the low ceiling.
Shade Ashes of Roses No. 6, Little Greene.
Shades Squid Ink #698 and Rufus #455, all from Paint & Paper Library.
Grey
A neutral and at the same time ideal solution when you want to highlight the plinth as an architectural element of the interior. Gray always looks elegant and unobtrusive.
Shades Shallows No. 223, Lamp Black No. 228, Urbane Gray No. 225, Loft White No. 222, Trumpet No. 196, all Little Greene.
