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Helppppppp with cabinet base moulding

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

My daughter's kitchen is almost done, but recently some moulding was installed that does not look right to her. She is doing frameless cabinets in her kitchen , family room and hall leading to a bathroom..

Her family room has cabinets that wrap around a corner with base moulding applied under the doors and under a shaker end panel on the other end of these cabinets that I do not have a pic of. The moulding is flush with the cabinet doors and panels.

This is a picture of the cabinets next to this peninsula which has moulding applied on top of the shaker peninsula panels as seen in this picture, but flush with the doors.

The end of the peninsula has a shaker panel with molding applied over the panel and wraps around to the front of the cabinet under the drawer. Then the shoe moulding starts.

She has an integrated Miele fridge. The first pic is the right front of the fridge. Base moulding sticks out in front of the fridge. There is shoe moulding under the toe kick in the rest of the kitchen. The second pic is the left side of her fridge which has an integrated panel with base moulding applied over the side panel. The front fridge panel will be flush with the frame of the cabinet. It seems silly to have the base moulding sticking out in front of everything else.

She also has a small microwave cabinet that WILL have shaker panels on the end and it looks like that molding will be flush with the panel above when it is installed.

The molding does not seem consistent to her. The fact that the moulding sticks out in some areas and not others bothers her, especially around the fridge and the end of the peninsula where it wraps around the front of the cabinet and sticks out like a sore thumb! It actually looks a little better in pictures than in real life.

Any suggestions??

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townlakecakes
7 years ago
I don't have any idea what's right or not, but the peninsula looks ok to me (to avoid that, she could have ordered the cabinet with the toe kick continued around the side instead of just on the front) but that bit around the fridge looks just plain weird.
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
7 years ago
Looks fine to me.
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suzanne_sl
7 years ago
These cabinets don't have actual recessed toe kicks? I agree that the molding looks odd sticking out.

This is our current pantry (frameless) with toekick, but no shoe molding. The finished end of the island looks the same.

This is the penninsula (also frameless) in our last home with toekick covers and shoe molding.

I guess I'm confused about the construction of the cabinets.
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7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
That is a design issue where she selected to use flush toe areas, and recessed toe areas combined. And then used baseboard molding on the flush toe areas, directly adjacent to the flush areas. The two don't mix well where they join unless thought out well in advance. The fridge panels would need to be notched, and then edge banded or finished, if they were to use the recessed toe look.

It's all in the design details in the original design specifications of the space. Base mold should be used with a restrained hand.
Karenseb
Original Author
7 years ago
Thanks for the comments. My daughter has documentaton stating and picturing the base molding installed flush with the shaker cabinet panels and doors. We will be talking to the KD and installers on Monday morning. Hopefully she can get the molding flush on the peninsula. The integrated panel on the left side of the fridge is attached to the floor at the bottom and if they remove the base molding, perhaps shoe molding will be acceptable to her.

Sophie, we will also ask about the notching and edge banding as a solution for the fridge.

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