Here’s the situation – bathroom walls are getting 1/4″ beadboard to 48″ height all around, except for the shower stall, which is ceramic tile. On one wall, the tile will end at an outside corner, and I know how I’ll handle that one, but on the other wall, the bullnose tile ends on a flat wall.
How would you handle the meeting point between the beadboard and the bullnose?
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It sounds like there are no vertical stiles in the installation, just continuous beadboard. If you can find a way to incorporate stiles, use one at the end of the beadboard and butt the tile on the other side (caulk joint). Install the panels, install the base and wainscot cap, then run stiles between the two, maybe 4' OC to hide the panel joints.
Since your tile is probably about the same thickness as the beadboard, a meeting without some sort of trim is going to be funky.
Thanks, everyone, for the input so far.
I wasn't planning to use any stiles, mainly because the room isn't that big. The longest straight run of wall is only about 8'; the rest are much shorter. It is kind of chopped up, and figuring out a decent looking stile repeat with numerous different length walls was just too much for me. ;-)
I am using the 1/4" 4x8 sheets cut down to 4x4 instead of individual beaded boards. It's not as nice, I realize, but given the moist environment of a bathroom, I didn't think I wanted to deal with that much wood movement (even primed all sides). And, it would require dealing with the baseboard and casing differently than everywhere else, I guess.
Because a bullnose tile is essentially a rounded over edge, I did consider, for a minute, rounding over the edge of the board, and then just butting them against each other, but I'm not thrilled with the idea. One other thing I considered was using some kind of small T molding (like an astragal) to cover the gap.
I wasn't familiar with Schluter products, but I just looked it up, and that may be a possibility too. Thanks for the suggestion.
Caulk?
Seriously.....being as you`re using such a thin wainscotte, you might want to consider firring out behind it....kinda beef it up to look more substancial. Create a piece of trim to meet up with the bullnose and return your wainscotte cap just into the bullnose.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
If you can, shimming out the wainscot sounds like a cool plan. Of course it would involve dealing with casings and baseboard but might offer a more sophisticated look. If you had to you could almost return the beadboard (but that would require some extra joints/molding on the corner). But the stiles are a good option too. Keep me posted on how you decide to approach this and post finish picutres if you can. I'm curious how this turns out.
Chris
Assistant Editor, FHB
Schluter trim seems to be going out of fashion - but this might be a time to use it...
All the best...
To those who know - this may be obvious. To those who don't - I hope I've helped.