Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Hi folks!

Well, the hubster and I are making slow progess, but at least making progress on our Cubby. We hunted all over Home Depot last weekend for something to use for the interior corner edges and came up empty. Everything for corner edging went over the OUTSIDE edge, not the finished edge being in the interior angle (make sense?) What have you folks done?

Maybe we are just not calling it the right thing. We envisioned it being metal (but any ideas for alternative material would do...) Any ideas for the amatuers?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

Davera ( & Adrian)

Wooden cove moulding comes to mind..... or 1/4 round moulding. If you get it small enough it should bend quite easily with very little persuasion...

I made some cove molding with a table saw and router table from pine. It bends fairly easily, but the sharpest part of the cubby profile required me to soak it in water first. It's about 3/8 x 3/8 inch. Some glue and headless nails hold it in.

Or you can get the piece they cut the quarter round out of -- I have no idea what it's called but at Lowe's and some Ace Hardware you can get it in up to 12' pieces and it's very bendy, almost like ribbon cable.

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I wanted something like quarter round but all I could find at the local Lowes & Home Depot was 1/2" quarter round that looked out of proportion to the rest of the interior and was hard to bend to the interior radiuses. What I found was screen molding that was 5/8" wide and 1/4" thick. I cut it in half (carefully) down the center and wound up with 2 strips of 1/4" quarter round with a nice radius and easily bent. Put it up with glue & small brads, some wood filler and it looks great. Just a thought.[/img]

This might not go with your theme at all, but I and a few others used rope--in my case, nautical manilla rope.

And HD has nylon rope in all colors.

Davera
Knowing what "They" call it is important. Usualy what they call it is so far off from what a comon sense name would be that its easy to get missed.

Heres what I used.

Hollow Bead Welt??
(theres a good name for "Inside Corner")

Not the cheapest place to buy it but here it is.

http://www.rvsurplussalvage.com/catalog ... ct_id=2718

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RV-Marin ... enameZWDVW

Happy Trails

Len

Is this what you have in mind?

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=863-1487-L205&lpage=none

If you want to use the "rope effect", go to a fabric store. They have braided cotton rope for about 50 cent a yard (They have various sizes, so cost may be + or - 20 cent.)

I used it to trim around the base of my front windows' framing. Glued it into place. I saturated the rope w/acrylic paint ($5/gallon in the excess paint section of Lowes). Lastly, I put a final coat of paint that matched my other trim.

Todah

That's kinda not what I was thinking of ... in the drawing below it would be M2. But M24 is nice too.

These are all really great ideas. Thanks so much! This forum is an awesome resource...

I am really liking the idea of using rope. We stained the interior wood, but are now considering painting it anyway, as the stain didn't go on so well. We have epoxy on the wood in places we couldn't see before staining, and the stain didn't take in those places. So we are reconsidering the approach there..

Thanks again all: I'm sure you'll be hearing from us again!

D.

The rope is very rigid. In other words, it doesn't "flop around" all that much, and a few finishing nails here and there sets it in place.

Granted, I used manilla, which I think is a lot more rigid than the nylon, but you can see for yourself at the store if you think the nyon rope or fabric yarn will work for you.