Ok, so I've laid my 3/8" engineered hardwood floors this past weekend. I installed them in the formal dining room. Here's the exact wood I used:

http://www.hardwoodinstaller.com/hardwo ... saddle.htm

Now I need to install the trim around the edges to give it that finished look. However I want to use something a little more fancier than the standard quarter round. Anyone have any suggestions?

I'd like to be able to find the trim at Lowes or Home Depot.

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I just ordered all of my interior moulding/millwork products this week. When I was at the mill, I looked at some pictures of high-end homes that used base cap moulding in place of a standard base shoe / quarter round. It really looked elegant and I'd never seen or heard of doing that before. That is what I decided to do. I ordered 6 inch modified baseboard moulding and a base cap that matches tha baseboard profile for the shoe moulding.

Let me also seriously encourage you to look for moulding at a local millworks/moulding distributor as opposed to Lowe's/HD. It eliminates lots of middlemen. Plus, the people working there are much more knowledgable about the stuff. I was able to purchase solid (not finger joint) FAS Poplar (and Oak for the small area of stain grade work) for less than the cost of MDF at the big box stores. It was 1.44 a lineal foot for the 6 inch poplar baseboard. Last time I checked at Lowe's it was around 2 bucks a foot for 5.25" MDF speed base.

Great advice! I never buy trim at those big box stores. They carry a few items that no one else does that I buy but trim isn't one of them.

I think a white / off-white base-board that is 5+ inches really sets off a wood floor and makes it stand out. Its cheap and it looks classy.

The undersides of base cap tend to be dirt collectors, just one thing to consider.

I did a lot of floors in our house and I scrapped the pre-existing quarter round and just used the baseboard to cover my edges.

Don

All good responses guys but it sounds like this fellow, new guy, decided to leave his existing baseboards in and now needs to cover the gap between the base and the floor. Baseshoe is the traditional way. There is a trim called a door stop that is typically a flat rectangle shape. It's the trim that sits on the door jamb that the door closes against. They do make a fancier version of this where one side has an ogee. Some of my contractors have used this instead of baseshoe when wanting to make the moulding fancier.

Yes, I left my current base board in place.

I looked a base cap and while I like the look of it, I'm afraid that dirt will get under the rounded bottom edge and be hard to clean. I wish they made base cap that was flat on the bottom.