And just like
that it's fixed. Currently not the prettiest thing, but paint will
take care of all that. The original trim has a decorative groove on
both sides. I didn't go to that trouble for such a small area. Jen didn't
like my caulk job, but I'm not so worried about that either.
I'm just happy the gaping hole is
gone.
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After the bathroom it was onto the kitchen. The
previous owners actually had two different trim styles in the house.
Since they had redone
their kitchen in relative
recent history,
they had put in trim different then the rest of the house. Even
this trim wasn't acceptable, so I started tearing it down for the new. Turns out
this part is going to be little more involved then I expected. It was
getting late and I was losing brain capacity, so I left figuring out
the new trim for when I'm more
fresh.
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The hard part
will be figuring out how to cut the bottom of
the new door jam to fit the floor the way it was installed
around the old door jam AND make sure this door jam is the
same hight as the one down the wall. The piece laying there is
the bottom of the old jam. I cut it off to make it easier for
me to cut and size the new jam. If it were easy, I could just
cut the bottom of my new jam to fit, then cut the top for the
hight requirement. Problem with jams is they have a special cut
or groove in the top for the top part of the jam. I have to do all
my fitting and height adjustments from the bottom.
It's a
shame I didn't get a closer shot. the hole in the floor really is
ugly. I think I might have to chip away some of the grout to make it
easier and more uniform.
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8/30/07 With little time before dance class, I
skipped the kitchen and attempted our half wall. When we bought the
house, this was a banister (scroll
down 1 picture). It wasn't very sturdy and we didn't like the look
of it much, so we put in a half wall.
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Finally it gets the trim it deserves.
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Since
the stairs are
a high traffic area and the wall is something we use
frequently to hold things we need to take downstairs, we
decided to go ahead and paint it.
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Might as well, since Jen was painting
anyway.
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While she was painting, I tore out the old door
jam to our bedroom, so we could install a new one with a solid wood
door. The tear out went smooth. The install could have been better.
Oh well. No one will ever know what's wrong unless they know what to
look for. That's kind of our moto in all this home trim project
thing.
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With the door jam done (kitchen too, no big
deal in the end, though I screwed up things there too), it was time
to finish the base molding in the living room. I had been putting
this one off because it involved three corners that needed cope
joints. For our base molding design, that meant nine cope joints in
all. Yay!
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So
what's a cope joint? Basically you take a coping saw and cut out the
shape of the board from the other wall into the board you're
going to install on the perpendicular wall. It's supposed
to combat contraction and expansion. It's also been explained
to me that they're easier to do then some kind of angle joint. I
think they're kind of a pain in the ass and am glad I have caulk to
make up for my poor coping skills.
So for our design, I
have to cope the main base board, the cap and finally the shoe
round. That's three boards at each corner. Here's the main base
board.
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