Edwardian era: 1901–1910 (the style runs to about 1914)
Edwardian skirting boards
Lighter than Victorian, warmer than modern: the skirting of the villa and the semi. Ovolo is on the rack; other Edwardian sections we grind a cutter for.
Edwardian profiles we cut from stock
From stock, the SkirtingMatch library cuts Ovolo (20mm moulded head), milled to order in solid pine at six heights from £18 to £36 per metre, in 5–7 working days.
Not sure which of these is yours? Scan your board — the library will tell you.
How to recognise a Edwardian skirting board
Edwardian joinery tends to be lighter and more restrained than Victorian work, built from a few simple elements. What you'll commonly find:
- Mouldings made of simple parts: a quarter-round (ovolo), small square fillets and the occasional bead.
- Crisp steps and fillets rather than deep hollows.
- Boards that are often a little lower and simpler than a comparable Victorian house, although large houses kept tall skirting.
- Many houses of the period were refitted between the wars, so a 1905 house can have 1930s skirting. Measure the board rather than dating the house.
Names and dates only get you close. A match comes from the section itself, measured at a cut end from the top edge down. How to match an old skirting board
Not on the rack? We grind the cutter
Stepped boards, beads planted on a plain board and other Edwardian combinations aren't separate stock cutters with us. If your board turns out to be a torus or an ogee, those are on the rack too: the scanner checks every era. Anything else is a bespoke run: £18 per metre plus £120 for the cutter (waived on orders over 25m), milled 7 days after your offcut arrives.
Either your profile matches a cutter in our library, or we grind a bespoke cutter for it in 7 days. How bespoke works
Matching architrave
Ovolo is also milled as matching architrave at 57mm (£14/m), 70mm (£16/m) and 95mm (£18/m), in the same solid pine. Architrave to any other profile is a bespoke run from your offcut.
Questions
What skirting did Edwardian houses have?
Edwardian skirting is commonly lighter than Victorian, built from simple elements such as an ovolo (a convex quarter-round between two square fillets), small steps and beads. In the SkirtingMatch library the Edwardian profile is Ovolo (20mm moulded head), milled to order in solid pine.
Is ovolo the same as bullnose?
No. An ovolo is a quarter-round framed by two small square fillets, one above and one below the curve. A bullnose is a rounded shoulder on the top edge with no fillets.
Can you match Edwardian architrave as well?
For the stocked profile, yes: Ovolo is also milled as matching architrave at 57mm (£14/m), 70mm (£16/m) and 95mm (£18/m), in the same solid pine. For any other Edwardian architrave, post an offcut and we'll quote a bespoke run.
We match any skirting board. Guaranteed. If your profile isn't one of the cutters in our library, post us an offcut. We grind a cutter to your exact section and mill it in seven days — and the cutter stays on file, so the next metre is never a problem again.