i need to get some advice on what type of baseboard to use in my kitchen. Right now I have solid red oak floors in the kitchen and I will be installing cherry cabinets a little later in the week.
As far as the baseboard moulding is concerned, should I try to use red oak or cherry moulding? any other ideas?
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Obviously, you could go either way. In design pictures I've seen, the trim matches the flooring. You might consider buying cheaper baseboards and painting them your wall/accent color ... That's what we will be doing when I finish the flooring in our place.
Good luck,
grace
As a Home Depot trainer, I tell the associates and customers this; The trim should match the rest of the house, N O T the floor. If you had blue carpet inthere would you paint the trim blue? NO, so make it flow with the rest. Also stay away from trying to match the cabinets to the floor, same reason. Keep in mind cherry will 'suntan' as it ages and may bleach out if it's in too much sun.
why would any body in their right mind paint baseboard..AHHHHHHHHHGGGGG.
Why would anybody not paint it? Raw wood is for barns
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but the beauty is the wood, not the paint
Beauty is in the design, the proportions, the scale, the gestalt, the usefulness, the context, the symbolism...oh, and sometimes, in the wood grain.
Mike
First let me say that I absolutely HATE home depot and find that store and going there a horrible experience. Not to mention that 70% of their products are CRAP.
Wango is right though. You should use the trim style that is in the rest of the house. If your house is paint grade trim, use that same exact trim and paint it the same color white. Make sure you match the white correctly, I know Ben Moore has about 20 or 30 variations of white paint.
I attached two files (they are large so dial up's beware) that show a dining room with 2 1/2" select red oak and white raised panel trim and crown. Also I included a kitchen picture where the cabinets are cherry and the flooring is red oak (there is a paper to protect the floor until it was sold. On the far left you can see the white baseboard trim, that was the best I could do with the pic's I have. There was no crown or chair rail in the kitchen, only the base. The entire house is white trim except a library which is all mahogany raised panels, crown and built in's and the flooring is the same red oak.
I saw that you are in winthop. This house is in Natick, MA, near Dover and sold for $1.6 million.
Edited 5/17/2005 10:22 pm ET by DDay
That looks like a nice house. I agree with you, that the baseboard color should match the rest of the trim. I don't see anything wrong with painted trim either. Here are your pictures resized for the bandwidth challenged.
Mike
Thanks for the resizing. I tried to do it once a month ago and couldn't get the pictures resize while maintaining the quality of the image.
I love the look and warmth of clear finished wood but the prices are much much higher and the design options are more limited, especially when you get into wainscoting and crowns.