Choosing the most suitable architrave design for your home

Of all of the work that possibly needs to be undertaken to bring a home's decor to the highest standard, buying the right architrave may not seem a natural first priority. Such tasks as the application of wallpaper, the touching up of paintwork and the polishing of wooden floors may seem to demand greater attention, at least at first.

However, there's also no means of smartening up a home's appearance that is quite as effective as installing the right architrave design. It makes such a difference because the most appropriate architrave is instrumental to finishing off a room's overall look. Like its close relative, the skirting board, the architrave may seem merely visual but also serves a practical purpose of guarding against fingerprints, marks and scuffs.

But while skirting board covers the gaps between the floor and the wall, architrave does the same job for the edges between the door frame and the wall. Also like skirting boards, architraves can vary significantly in appearance from one property to the next. Historic houses are likely to have an especially decorative architrave design, compared to the clean, contemporary aesthetic of more recently designed and built properties.

Midland Skirting, with its more than 15 years in the business of producing the most beautiful skirting, also offers plenty of choice of architraves. You may be attracted to our classy Angle Edge Architrave, for example, or it may be the Angle Groove Architrave that you have fallen in love with. We also stock such well-regarded designs as the Chamfer Architrave and Pencil Round Architrave.

Other options in our architrave design selection sport more of a classic, period look, appropriate to the aforementioned older properties. These include the Victorian 1 and Victorian 2 Architraves. We offer standard architrave supplied in three metre lengths un-primed as standard, unless otherwise stated at the point of order. But more recently, we have also begun to offer architrave sets in packs of three, consisting of two 2m lengths and one 1m length.