What size base is there now? What size are you planning for thru out the house? Were the window supposed to bet that low? Hopefully they used tempered glass in the lower sash as that is required by code.

It’s 6 inch baseboards. They’ve already put most of it down throughout the house. The windows were supposed to be there. Most of the windows are 6 or 7 feet tall in our house. We didn’t think about this beforehand as it’s our first time building

Can you scrap the idea on having window trim? It looks kind of plain like the baseboards, is it a flat stock trim on both?

We cannot not trim the windows. They are wood on the inside and definitely need trimmed

Go with what you have pictured.

I think what you show is as good as it gets and I agree sure hope those windows are tempered glass.

I do believe they are tempered glass. We live in a county in alabama that is VERY strict and follow the codes to a T and it’s all been inspected and approved up to this point but I do remember seeing stickers on the windows that say “tempered glass”

One alternative is to stop the vertical casing at the bottom of the window jamb and install a substantial (i.e. thicker than the base so it protrudes past the thickness of the base) piece of flat stock from the bottom of the jamb to the floor and running between the outside edge of the vertical casings. You could run the base around that or not as you prefer. Yes, it creates two additional inside corners so it might not be popular with whomever does the cleaning in your home.

@charles thank you! Im trying to visualize what that means. lol

If you had 8 ft doors it might have made sense to match the window headers to that height, but I think having the window headers at 6' 8" was a missed opportunity for more natural light and more open views when standing in the middle of the rooms, specially with that higher ceiling height. You would also not have any trim issues. Door headers and window headers do not have to match, specially with high ceilings and tall windows.

Lessons for the next time you build ...

Thank you!!!!

Mark's version isn't the same as what I had in mind, but I like it. If you go this route, I suggest you use thinner material between the vertical casings not thicker.

See if you can get Charles to sketch his idea, it may fit in better with the rest of the house trim.

I'm not in the office this week and don't have access to any drawing tools, but here's a how-to:

The existing casing is installed in a picture-frame fashion with all butt joints. Leave the vertical casings in place as they are currently installed, Remove the bottom (horizontal) member and cut the baseboard so a single piece of trim can be installed from the bottom of the vertical legs to the floor. I'd make it proud of the casings and base. You have the option of simply butting the base to it or wrapping the base around it. The latter is fancier than I would prefer, but there is that option available.

Thank you all so much! This is super helpful