Baseboards on Irregular Logs

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Permalink Reply by Marla on June 11, 2011 at 1:11am

Personally, I don't think baseboards are necessary on log walls.  We just slid our flooring under the bottom log, which sits on a 1x8.  The only place we have baseboard is on the interior walls which are framed and drywalled.

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Permalink Reply by John Duke on June 11, 2011 at 10:42am

I agree that baseboards are not necessary in many situations, unless you are trying to cover uneven, gapped joints, want to use them to hide wiring, are installing wall-to-wall carpets, etc. Especially if you are installing a new floor you can tuck the floor under the floor log as far as it goes and seal it. Search this forum for baseboards and you will see a few examples of what people have done. You can also do an image search on your favorite search engine -- something like:

 

  baseboard "log cabin" OR "log house"

 

will start to turn up hits for you to give you ideas.

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Permalink Reply by John on June 13, 2011 at 12:33am

If you really want trim, you can always run a small top cap piece that would make that funky transition. Its kinda bulky at the bottom but makes a good elec. Chase too. You would fasten your baseboard to this, with topcap overhanging baseboard.


Jd

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