Quarter Round Match Floor Or Cabinets

Quarter round should match the floor.

Quarter round match floor or cabinets. We ve written a fair amount about installing baseboard and quarter round for hardwood floors and the right finish nailer for doing this job. Matching quarter round to white baseboards. Should my floors match my cabinets. Christophern the hardwood floors sites i looked it indicated that it is truly a personal preference not a rule and that a painted quarter round to match the painted baseboard is a more traditional look than matching the floor.

Should my floors match my cabinets. August 8 2018 mary. Doesn t matter a bit. This article was first published in november.

Shoe molding is available in wood mdf and polystyrene to match your baseboards. Installing quarter round around the outside of your cabinets can be done yourself using simple tools. Quarter round molding painted the color of the cabinets with travertine flooring quarter round painted the color of the island with hardwood floors as noted above there is no right or wrong decision when it comes to staining or painting your kitchen cabinet quarter round molding. Standard shoe molding available at home improvement centers and lumberyards comes in widths of 7 16 inch to.

However they acted like this was a rather strange request and had assumed that i would. Meg the best floor layers take the baseboard off and put the wood or laminate closer to the wall not all the way though as there has to be space for it to expand and contract and then they put the baseboard back on thus the baseboard itself covers the raw edge of the flooring and there s no need for quarter round. We are having hardwoods installed in a few weeks and they plan to use quarter rounds between the baseboards and floors. Picking out a floor or cabinet you like is an easy task and in the end should work just as well together.

What i ve seen in most houses is the molding and shoe match. If you have installed a new floor and there are gaps between the floor and the cabinets quarter round molding can be installed to cover any gaps or imperfections. Since we have 4 inch white baseboards i requested white quarter round mouldings. You will find many flooring dealers will try to steer you into matching moldings specifically quarter round because it puts more money into their pockets.

Then if you go around cabinets those are stained to match the wood floor so the shoe molding doesn t jump out at you being painted. Cabinets and hardwood floors in your home go together like salt and pepper romeo and juliet batman and robin you get the idea. One recurring question from fellow diyers tackling this project is whether you should lay quarter round that matches the wood floor or just paint the quarter round white to match the baseboard.