Nemesis

After much trial and error over the past few weeks (did you think we were just messing about in those other rooms? ;-), tonight my dad and I finally finished the base shoe in the master bedroom. The big problem was bending the molding along the curved wall.

We tried wrapping it in wet towels overnight. Didn't work.

We tried back-cutting notches along the back side of the molding. Sort of worked, but the top of the molding kept wanting to roll over.

We tried steaming it in a fabricated steam box. That also kind of worked.

Finally, we did a little of each and added a new wrinkle. Back-cut the stock, steamed it, and then put it in a form and let it dry for a couple of hours so that it would hold its shape while we worked it into position.

Of course, the room and curve aren't really symmetrical (and half of the curve is *slightly* larger than a 4x8 sheet of plywood), so we needed to custom make the form for each half of the curve...