Decorative mouldings in a child's room

Skirting boards are decorative finishing elements that bring refinement and charm to our interiors. Skirting boards are a perfect match for wooden floors, wall mouldings let you create one-of-a-kind decorative features, and cornices add the finishing touch that completes the room. When choosing mouldings for a child's room, go for products that are not only good-looking, but also hard-wearing and safe for your little one.

Which mouldings should you choose for a child's room?

Decorative mouldings come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, which makes them easy to match to the interior style you have chosen. For a minimalist room that you plan to build on over time, following the tastes of your growing child, go for simple skirting boards and cornices.

If you would rather create charming decorative features from the outset, choose mouldings with finely sculpted detailing. In a room like this, alongside skirting boards and cornices, wall decorations such as frames - double or single, filled with decorative wallpaper or left plain - will look superb. Corner mouldings round the scheme off perfectly: they create visual unity while protecting the corners at the same time. It all depends on how we picture the interior and the effect we want to achieve.

Finishing mouldings are available in many shapes, colours, materials and finishes. Beyond their good looks, decorative mouldings in a child's room have to be hard-wearing and stand up to everything a curious child can throw at them. On the market you will find:

• Wooden skirting boards,
• MDF skirting boards,
• Aluminium skirting boards
• Plastic skirting boards (PVC, polystyrene, polymer).

The choice of material is crucial if our decorative features are to last and keep their flawless look for years, even in a room as demanding as a child's. A wooden skirting board, especially when matched to the floor, looks stunning in classic interiors, but in our child's room it may not be up to the job - it is prone to knocks, it warps and swells on contact with water, it is hard to clean and it calls for special maintenance treatments. Skirting boards in MDF, made from wood-based board, can swell and delaminate in the same way. Aluminium is hard-wearing, but raw-looking and cold to the touch. It works far better in the bathroom than in a child's room. That leaves plastic skirting boards as the best option - easy to look after and water-resistant. Not every material of this kind is durable and resistant to mechanical damage, though. Polystyrene skirting boards can be too soft: under the pressure of inquisitive little hands they will dent and break. PVC ones are tough, but they look shiny and plasticky, which can have a real impact on how the room reads. So which should you choose? We strongly recommend polymer.

Superior build quality

When choosing a skirting board for a child's room, hard-wearing, high-quality products should come first. The mouldings need to cope with accidental knocks during play and with scratches. For the sake of both looks and safety - especially where electrical wiring runs behind the mouldings - it is worth choosing profiles with a dedicated channel in which exposed cables can be hidden.

Mardom Decor skirting boards tick every box: they are made from the hard-wearing PolyForce material and feature the innovative ScratchShield® technology, which increases resistance to mechanical damage and protects the surface against denting and scratching. Thanks to the innovative technology used in production, the skirting boards resist not only impacts but also the scratches that sharp objects such as scissors can cause.

Water-resistant, hard-wearing finishing skirting boards. Browse the mouldings and accessories available in our online shop. Choose the profile of your dreams, order a sample and put the quality of our decorative mouldings to the test!

Finishing skirting board - your child's safety

Decorative mouldings are a simple and attractive way to finish a room. When choosing any kind of wall decoration, however, it is essential to pay close attention to our child's safety. Every product fitted in our child's room must be of high quality and non-toxic.

Mardom Decor products are made entirely in Poland, in line with the strict standards of the European Union. Every stage - from design through to packaging - takes place in our home country, which gives us complete control over the quality and safety of our mouldings. We hold hygiene certificates and the other approvals needed to confirm the high quality of our products.

Are decorative skirting boards really necessary?

Decorative mouldings are not limited to skirting boards, but skirting is without doubt the finishing element people buy most often. It is indispensable in every room, whatever its purpose, and a child's room is no exception. That is why it deserves particular attention when we go shopping. Its main job is to protect the floor (floating laminate flooring in particular) from dust, grit and moisture. Floor skirting boards neatly cover the expansion gap left when the floor is laid. Dirt therefore cannot build up in the gaps, and we do not expose our child to contact with bacteria or dust mites. On top of that, skirting boards add a great deal to the look of the room. If we want a perfectly finished floor, we should also consider threshold strips and transition strips in a colour and texture that match it.

Well-chosen transition strips make our floor panels blend almost invisibly into the scheme. It is worth bearing in mind, though, that floor panels come in a huge number of shades and finishes, and not all of them have a dedicated matching skirting board. A white polystyrene moulding suits every type and style of room, whatever the tone of the floor. Floor skirting boards are also an excellent way of protecting walls from mechanical damage. A child's imagination knows no limits: you never know when a bedroom will turn into a racetrack for cars or a ballroom for dancing dolls. Finishing skirting boards for laminate flooring will properly shield the wall from the accidental knocks and scuffs that come with an exciting game. Floor skirting boards also take care of hiding the electrical cables around the home. Loose, unprotected cables are one of the last things we would want to leave in a child's room. Correctly profiled floor skirting boards conceal exposed wiring perfectly, keeping the room both safe and good-looking. Decorative mouldings - furnishing a child's room. When choosing mouldings for a child's room, we want them to be functional and attractive, and to suit the interior not only now but in the future too. So which criteria should we take into account?

What colour should floor skirting boards be?

When choosing finishing mouldings, we want them to sit perfectly with the interior scheme and to serve us for many years. As children grow, however, redecorating their room is inevitable, and that means changing the style of the space completely. In that situation we suggest two options: mouldings in classic white, which work with every style, or mouldings that can be painted.

Mardom Decor Premium skirting boards are an excellent choice if you are looking for a snow-white shade and outstanding durability. The products are covered with a special SupremeSatin® coating, which gives them the shade you want and protects the surface as well. Traditional Mardom Decor skirting boards are finished with a premium-quality paint that smooths the surface and improves the adhesion of pigment to the material. You can therefore paint the decorative mouldings any shade you like, and the result will always be perfect. For a fully coherent effect, you can paint the mouldings in exactly the same paint as the one used on the wall.

Please note!

Mardom Decor mouldings are suitable for painting with water-based paint.

With well-chosen finishing mouldings, your child's room will become a space that is safe, practical and beautiful all at once, where your child can play and grow up in complete safety.