Quarter round color?

allie22031

13 years ago

My cabinets are going around the perimeter of the room and then I have quite a bit of wall in a eat in bay window and outer wall of laundry.

What is the current thinking? all quarter round match the wood colored cabinets against white shoe molding? All white for both? Wood colored against the cabinets and white against the white shoe molding?

Votes? Preferences? I currently have wood color around the whole room, but let's face it, I don't like much the PO did!

thx,

Allie

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jb1176
13 years ago
I always considered the quarter round as part of the wall system rather than the floor system and thereby I would paint the quarter round the same color as the baseboard molding.
chocolatetruffle
13 years ago
White shoe molding is going to get trashed very quickly. The paint just doesn't seem to hold up. Home Depot carries laminate shoe molding that looks like real wood; it comes in a variety of finishes, and you find it in the flooring section with the pre-finished or laminate flooring. It comes in 8 foot lengths.
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jenva2010
13 years ago
It seems to be regional. All the houses in our area have stained wood quarter-round. Except ours -- DH and I consider the quarter round (well, actually we use a shoe molding because I dislike the look of quarter round) part of the baseboard, so paint/stain it the same as the baseboard. We both think it looks better matching the baseboard (or cupboards), but I'm sure a future homeowner will be baffled at how weird they think it looks.

Which is a long way of saying, do whichever you like better -- there's no hard and fast rule, just personal preference.
stevie_2010
13 years ago
My KD told me to have the shoe molding white to match the baseboards (my cabinets are also white.) I told my GC that but when we got back after the floors were refinished, the molding matched the floors, which are dark. I was all ready to make the GC redo it but when my KD saw it she said it looked just great and she wouldn't change it. So I guess there is no right or wrong here, just whatever you like. (Or in my case since I had no opinion, it was accidental.)

Jenva, can you tell me what the difference is between shoe molding and quarter round. (It's too late for me but I'm curious.)
jenva2010
13 years ago
Quarter round is convex, like a quarter-circle. Shoe molding (at least, what my local lumberyard calls shoe molding) is concave.

I suspect shoe molding is also more of a dust-catcher, which is something to keep in mind if you like both looks equally. (I'm pretty lazy about things like dusting baseboards, so it wasn't a dealbreaker for me.)
ejbrymom
13 years ago
OUr quarterround is currently the color of our flooring. I dislike it. Makes it seem like the floor is creeping up the wall. I think the quarterround should be the color of the baseboard molding (preferably white). It will make your wall look just a little bit taller. We plan to change ours when we change our flooring soon.
brickeyee
13 years ago
"Quarter round is convex, like a quarter-circle. Shoe molding (at least, what my local lumberyard calls shoe molding) is concave. "

That is not shoe molding then, but cove molding (and yet it catches dust).

Shoe molding is usually twice as tall as its thickness, with a quarter round shape with a radius of half the thickness on the top edge away from the baseboard.

It sticks out on the floor less than quarter round, but is often just as tall against the baseboard.

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