I have a portion base trim where there will be base board with a return and there should have been a miter for the outside shoe. When it was installed the ended the shoe and there is no miter for the corner.
I’m trying to figure out the best way to make this look decent. My first inclination is to do a return but with it being stained it will show more where it hits the shoe at the corner.
Anyone have a better method or idea?
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What's the profile of the intended base?
Guess that would have helped. Craftsman.
If that's in a kitchen of bath, you could remove the wooden shoe and replace the whole thing with vinyl base.
Sand the end-grain flat and smooth then stain it? You could round off the sharp corner on the shoe with sandpaper, a file or a rasp. Get some veneer and glue it to the endgrain? Both should make it less noticeable.
If you want it right, pull the existing shoe and replace it.
the other way to go is just make your new molding a little long. The cabinet will hide most of the details anyway.
How tall will your molding be, in relation to the kick space under the cabinet?
I’d love to do it the right way but getting the shoe off without damaging anything will be a problem. It’s freshly nailed and glued. The molding is about half an inch taller than the kick. I was thinking to run it past the shoe a little and maybe terminate the shoe as if it were going up to door casing. Wouldn’t be easy since I can’t pull it off- I’m afraid the multi-tool wouldn’t be precise enough.
I would run the new baseboard past the shoe and call it a day. no one will see the narrow gap between the end of the shoe and the back of your new baseboard.
Only drawback I see is it might make it a little easier to stub a toe in the dark. (but not much)
Well, 60yr house, none of the trim is exact and we are reusing the old trim in the mud room.
She said she didn’t want base ran on that side of the cabinet anyhow- something I wasn’t told initially. Ended up just making a return on the end of the outside shoe and it matches to the straight cut under the kick. Good enough, I guess. Shortcuts like this drive me nuts, but it isn’t a showpiece and it isn’t in a high visibility area.
I hear ya.