One of the first things we tackled in The Scary Room was the removal of the existing trimwork, in an effort to properly repair the drywall before reinstalling. It was in sad shape (well, it still is), and from the beginning, I told Scott that I would spend days – weeks, if I had to! […]

One of the first things we tackled in The Scary Room was the removal of the existing trimwork, in an effort to properly repair the drywall before reinstalling. It was in sad shape (well, it still is), and from the beginning, I told Scott that I would spend days – weeks, if I had to! – nursing it back to health. It’s the only trim in our home that’s original, but even that comes with a small asterisk, as we quickly learned that the baseboards were not as original as we once thought. In this video, you can see that the baseboards were cobbled together over the years, and they were installed haphazardly in varying heights throughout the room. Never mind that the closet wall (and the closet interior) didn’t have baseboards at all. We ultimately decided that the baseboards would get scrapped altogether, but we would do our best to replicate the one teeny section that we think to be original. And the window trim" The window trim is pocked and chipped, it’s glooped in thick paint, and the sills are soaked with water damage. Even still, I feel really, really good about salvaging them! We’ll probably need to replace the sills (and likely...