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Curious re Baseboards with bullnose wall

6 years ago

i recently reinstalled my baseboards and I just copied the way they were installed before with a few little tweaks to accommodate trim we added in a couple of places. When I was looking at pictures online I noticed that most people said the “right” way to do bullnose corners is some variation of cutting a 1” corner piece. A few people even showed examples of terribly mitered 90 degree baseboards around bullnose corners as what not to do. But I also came across a few pictures where the baseboards met at perfect 90 degree angles and were mitered beautifully around a bullnose wall corner. I thought it looked really great, and very clean. Now I’m just curious there is a reason why everyone warns against this method, because it does look really good in some applications. I thought maybe it had to do with expansion at the joint but then I realized that can’t be it because the corners are still mitred, just at 22.5 instead of 45. Anyway, I’m just wondering what opinions are out there on the matter. I have a few projects coming up that involve more woodwork so trim seems to be catching my interest right now.

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User
6 years ago
You mean like this ?
EvaElizabeth
Original Author
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Yes, that’s what I mean.

it also just occurred to me that wainscoting is 90 degrees around walls with bullnose corners all of the time. So why a preference for following the curve with baseboards? Especially in new construction, since most people I know have trim with some variation of “wrapped” baseboard. Maybe they get banged up more easily? Or they’re more forgiving to install? I love square wall corners and trim, personally. My house has bullnose wall corners and very simple trim and I think squared off baseboards would have looked great. we don’t have a lot of extra trim but what we do have around our stairs (and the paneling in our mudroom) is all square. I sort of think the bullnose corners are more noticeable when the trim follows them and when it doesn’t the bullnose corner seems to disappear.
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User
6 years ago
Right. I much prefer that to this.

I do notice they have some rounded mouldings now.
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Virgil Carter Fine Art
6 years ago
Agrrrgh...!
One Devoted Dame
6 years ago
Maybe they get banged up more easily?

Our new tract home (finished at the end of August 2017) has rounded-corner walls with sharply mitered baseboards, and it drives me nuts.

Yes, the baseboard corners get banged up like crazy (I have lots of kids and a dog, though....). I want to either redo all of the trim in the house, or splice the miter off and replace it with a round cap. I also just like the consistency of squared with squared and rounded with rounded.

My builder probably used the cheapest caulk available, which means that the space between the rounded wall and mitered board will probably start cracking/opening up soon. Sigh.
palimpsest
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My c. 1840 house had beaded outside corners and the bases were 90 degree with a wood fillet cut to fit the gap.

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