Carley

Hi, my boyfriend has bought a gun cabinet and he wants to fix it to one of the outside walls which he has been told is required. The only thing is the skirting board is in the way. We were going to take it off to fix the cabinet to the wall but there are pipes all along the bottom of the walls right the way through our house. Can we put the cabinet on the wall but about a foot off the floor? Thanks Carley