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Urgent Advice needed on Cabinet molding -- glue is drying! Pics

16 years ago

DH installed the cabinet molding this afternoon and it looks funny at the corner that meets the wall. We aren't sure whether the molding should have been installed further back even with the wall edge (in which case we need to pry off the wood pieces asap as the glue is drying very quickly), or whether somehow with the installation of the cabinets we need an extra filler piece alongside the wall. Thoughts?

Comments (7)

  • 16 years ago

    I think the molding looks fine bit the gap between the wall and the cabinet should be covered or the cabinet should have been scribed.

    LOVE your red birch cabs!! gorgeous...

  • 16 years ago

    It looks funny to me in the picture, but I just looked at my cabs, a couple of them were done exactly the same way and this is the first time I've ever noticed it, so I'm going to say it will be fine and you won't notice it later on.

  • 16 years ago

    The pictures of the end of the cabinet runs looks like the cabinet facing on the end comes out flush to the edge of the doors so it should do that on both sides. I'll opt for adding an additional piece.

  • 16 years ago

    In my opinion the problem is the finished end panels on the left side of the pantry and the right side of the uppers you show - those panels should have been fush to the edge of the cabinet box not the door (thus the vertical ends (filler and panel) would be the same depth on the left and the right). Changing the crown moulding to be flush with the box (like the light rail) might work but it may also make the end panels look odd - if you go that way I would have the crown follow the edge of the box just like the light rail and not over the end panel as it is installed now. In terms of adding an additional piece of filler against the walls - are the current pieces an extended stile added at the factory or filler? What will you affix the new piece of filler with and to? It really does look good as it is.

  • 16 years ago

    Looking at the first picture, I want to know what the left side looks like at the cabinet door. Is it flush with the door? I can't tell from the angle.

    If it's flush on one side but not on the other, then I would guess it has to do with the hinges of the doors. the side that looks funny is against the wall. There has to be space for the door to open, and that may be a function of the type of hinge that was used.

    either way, your choice would be to leave it as is or cut a bit off the trim. I'd leave it alone.

  • 16 years ago

    What caryscott and morgue said.

  • 16 years ago

    Thanks so much for your feedback -- we had to make a fast decision about whether we were going to try to uninstall that molding before the glue dried. We decided to leave the cabinet molding as is.

    Funny how I never noticed that the light skirt is different from the cabinet molding -- now I'm wondering about that too ;-).

    We sent an email to Scherr's to ask about the crown molding and here is what they said (in case anyone wants to avoid our 9pm freak-out and plan ahead with your cabinets...)

    From Scherr's:
    "You have installed the fillers and top trim correctly, there is
    nothing odd about it.

    Occasionally we have customers order the fillers "L" shaped so they
    end up flush with the doors. This works too, but then the fillers need
    to be wider for scribe room, so there is a trade-off."

    I must admit that I don't understand some of what Scherr's (and some of you) have said, but fortunately DH does.

    Thanks again!