Ideas for skirting around fireplace

[malcolm]

I've been fitting skirting. I've come to the fireplace. Continuing skirting to the hearth will look too heavy and I'm thinking about a shorter moulding the same height as the hearth.

What has anyone else done for this sort of detail.

 

[paulc]

Turned up a scrap of wood to give a rounded end to the bit of skirting.

 

[Toby Newell]

Turned up a scrap of wood to give a rounded end to the bit of skirting.
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For the men with lathes in their sheds

 

[Toby Newell]

Turned up a scrap of wood to give a rounded end to the bit of skirting.
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And +1 for finishing the skirting at the wall and not going round the corner and cutting a mitred border around the quarry tiles.

 

[Toby Newell]

I've been fitting skirting. I've come to the fireplace. Continuing skirting to the hearth will look too heavy and I'm thinking about a shorter moulding the same height as the hearth.

What has anyone else done for this sort of detail.


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And... looks like you are going to need quite a lot of Lecol 7500 to fill the gaps in your pine parquet.

 

[88v8]

I've been fitting skirting. I've come to the fireplace. Continuing skirting to the hearth will look too heavy and I'm thinking about a shorter moulding the same height as the hearth.

What has anyone else done for this sort of detail.

I think I would regard the sides of the fire opening as decoratively analogous to a wooden fire surround, and stop the skirting where it is.

 

[CliffordPope]

Here are our four;

 

[CliffordPope]

Damn - I went to so much trouble turning the pictures upright, and then something turned them back again as I sent them!

 

[88v8]

Damn - I went to so much trouble turning the pictures upright, and then something turned them back again as I sent them!

Hehheh... they have to be rotated in your photo editor, then saved. Just rotating them on your screen doesn't do it... how do I know that...

I like the third pic, the one with the green marble(?) surround... the wallpaper, carpet, the whole bit... how a period house should look. A pox on painted walls and laminate.
What's the pot for?

 

[malcolm]

Thanks for the ideas and pictures. The pamments are mostly cleaned up now and the hearth should go in next week so I can see what it looks like and try some things.

 

[joe_thomas]

Here's a before and after of our fireplace after a lot of work. When we moved in it was boxed up and not pumping out much heat, so we re-opened it, brought the stove out into the room a bit more.

I laid a limestone hearth, and also made a Beech hearth-surround. I think I'll leave the "cheeks" without skirting boards, once we've decided what to do with the floor.... If anything, some timber moulding/beading at the base would do. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-White-Oak-Quadrant-Moulding---18-x-18-x-2400mm/p/121215

 

[CliffordPope]

Hehheh... they have to be rotated in your photo editor, then saved. Just rotating them on your screen doesn't do it... how do I know that...

I like the third pic, the one with the green marble(?) surround... the wallpaper, carpet, the whole bit... how a period house should look. A pox on painted walls and laminate.
What's the pot for?

I did save them, after rotating and reducing the size to 10% to make them acceptable for the forum. That's the puzzle.

The green is painted of course. I was aiming for malachite but got a bit carried away.

Fir cones. It's got to go somewhere - it was a present.

 

[a twig]

I've been fitting skirting. I've come to the fireplace. Continuing skirting to the hearth will look too heavy and I'm thinking about a shorter moulding the same height as the hearth.

What has anyone else done for this sort of detail.


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On all the places I’ve done I have taken the same approach as Ivor and stopped there.

I brought it forward and round on the first fireplace I did and that evening sat in front of it that - it completely triggered my “it looks wrong” OCD to the extent that ~10pm after half a glass of wine I went and found tools and ripped it back off!

 

[CliffordPope]

I think if the skirting just stops abruptly it gives the impression that it used to go straight on, and that the chimney or whatever has been just built later covering it up. It makes it look a bit like a fake. Skirting should always go round the corner, or at least end with a suitable vertical piece an inch or so higher than the skirting, as a stop-end. Like at doorways when it meets the moulding round the door frame.

 

[LadyArowana]

We have a very deep skirting and this is how it runs to the fireplace

 

[CliffordPope]

That's different, because the skirting ends with a define upright feature - the fire surround. I meant where the skirting just disappears into a wall.

 

[malcolm]

It's a good photo though - a fire surround would completely fix my problem.

 

[a twig]

I still think what you have at present is fine