I avoided skirting boards in my lime-plastered spare room and used this unusual rustic alternative instead

Yellow bedroom with bed, wooden bedside table and rope skirting.

Skirting boards have always been one of those things I never ever questioned in a house. They’re in every room you go into, so constant you don’t often register them. It was only when we finished lime plastering our 300-year-old cottage guest room with incredibly wobbly walls that we realised that skirting boards just weren’t going to be an option.

So, we went about looking for alternatives to wood or plastic that wouldn’t look out of place alongside engineered wood flooring in a cosy cottage guest bedroom.