A Trim Story: Repairing Old, Matching New + How We Install
The Scary Room is slowly chugging along, despite spending every weekend working on the trim. We didn’t make it easy on ourselves – what, with our 3-piece door moldings and 2-piece baseboards – but after caulking the last seam earlier this week, we can say that all the time intensive work has absolutely been worth it! […]
The Scary Room is slowly chugging along, despite spending every weekend working on the trim. We didn’t make it easy on ourselves – what, with our 3-piece door moldings and 2-piece baseboards – but after caulking the last seam earlier this week, we can say that all the time intensive work has absolutely been worth it!
Over the years, I’ve had to retrain my brain on how to approach trimming a room. Instead of writing with a fat black marker on our kraft roll ‘Trim Scary Room‘ (punctuated with three exclamations and underlined emphatically), I’ll write this instead: Measure the room + buy trim
Cut and install trim
Spackle and caulk trim
Sand everything!
Paint trim
You get the point. Scott and I have our strengths and weaknesses in each bullet point (he’s the master cutter, and I can caulk any room with my eyes closed), and after trimming almost every room in this house from scratch, I can honestly say that this has been the most challenging room yet. Of course, it all started with my declaration to salvage the original window trim (more on that in a second!), a...
The Scary Room is slowly chugging along, despite spending every weekend working on the trim. We didn’t make it easy on ourselves – what, with our 3-piece door moldings and 2-piece baseboards – but after caulking the last seam earlier this week, we can say that all the time intensive work has absolutely been worth it!
Over the years, I’ve had to retrain my brain on how to approach trimming a room. Instead of writing with a fat black marker on our kraft roll ‘Trim Scary Room‘ (punctuated with three exclamations and underlined emphatically), I’ll write this instead: Measure the room + buy trim
Cut and install trim
Spackle and caulk trim
Sand everything!
Paint trim
You get the point. Scott and I have our strengths and weaknesses in each bullet point (he’s the master cutter, and I can caulk any room with my eyes closed), and after trimming almost every room in this house from scratch, I can honestly say that this has been the most challenging room yet. Of course, it all started with my declaration to salvage the original window trim (more on that in a second!), a...
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yellowbrickhome
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http://www.yellowbrickhome.com/
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