Trimin' it Out

Worked on some more trim work tonight!  I finished painting those window aprons today so that we could go to town tonight!!  Doesn't it look great?  I'm so glad we went to the extra work (ha, I can say that now, lol)

Sunroom trim is all up

Dining Room trim is all up.

New view from the sitting area out to the sunroom.

What a mess we have on that table!!  :)

Kitchen window trim is up.  I need to take a closeup of that!

We even got the chair rail installed in the half bath.

Remember that we've got pocket doors in BOTH walls of that little room.

That meant NO NAILS to hold the chair rail up on the front half of each of those walls.

Solution:  Silicone (Kade LOVES silicone now!)

So we used silicone and I used an old shower curtain rod to put pressure on both sides!

Hopefully it will work and not slide down during the night, lol!

Don't Forget Your Apron

Your window apron that is!  Just look at 'em all!  We actually put them together over a few days...and today I worked on filling holes and caulking their joints so I can get them painted.

Exciting!  This will be the finishing piece of trim for all of the windows!!

Each apron is 6 total pieces.

3 cove moulding (mitered on each end) and 3 simple baseboard (mitered on each end)

These two are for the kitchen windows....

for some reason we just weren't diggin' a full blown apron in there.

Just about ready to go up!

I think they turned out awesome!  I need to apologize to my husband for making EVERYTHING so much harder than it needs to be....but IT LOOKS AMAZING!!

So I'm sitting there working this afternoon and hear a loud falling noise...

hmmmm.....what on earth was that??

Look around, don't see anything....go outside and look at the roof...

dang!  We have GOT to get this tree taken down!

This is the second limb that it has dropped on the house!  I had to climb up there in my flip flops so I could take a pic and send it to Kade at work :) One of these times we may not be so lucky and it may do some actual damage!  Add this to the list of things to do asap!

A little more...but finally another decision made!

The window casing saga continues  :)  This really shouldn't be so difficult!  We tried some samples in the master bedroom today.  Thought maybe a different view might make a difference, lol.

Here it is with the square window apron.

Here it is with a different piece of baseboard, flipped upside down with returns on each end.

And again in the dining room with the square....

I think I'm not loving the square as much as I thought I would!

That's it....decision made....

We're going with the one that takes EXTRA WORK!!

The baseboard flipped and mitered with returns on each end.

Oh good grief!  Why do I make so much extra work for us?

Window Casing & More!

Why is it so difficult to come up with window & door casing??  I have searched and searched and searched some more looking for ideas for what we should do.  Today we put together a couple different options with window aprons...and I'm still not sold on any of them, ugh!  I have on more idea...hopefully we can try it out tomorrow.

This was our first option...just a basic baseboard flipped upside down with a piece of cove moulding pushed up against the bottom of the window sill.

Option number two...just another piece of the same thing we're using on the sides of the windows. (an MDF 1x3)

Option number three...the same as the first...only trimmed down about a quarter of an inch. (yes, I realize that isn't very much, lol, but sometimes just a little is all you need to take off!)

Option number four is no apron at all.  Just a piece of cove moulding under the sill.

At the moment I think this one is our favorite! (Didn't see that coming!!)

Then we went out in the sunroom to test some window apron options out there.

This is the plain mdf 1x4.  These windows don't actually have window sills...so it's going to look a little different out here.  We decided to go with something similar to the headers for the sill/apron area.  We're actually using the scraps from the boards we used on the window sills (they were about 1" x .25" x 8', so each board/window sill we made will do one window)

This is that upside down baseboard again.  We're going to give it a try tomorrow with a return and see how it looks that way.  I think it's everything being so "square" that's bothering me on each one of these trial window aprons that we made!

Oh...did I say that the weather is FINALLY nice here today?  So nice actually.  So we finally got to get the table saw and miter box out and get some stuff done!

First thing Kade did was cut the last board for the back of the mudroom.

Now it's my turn to figure out what we're hanging our coat hooks on and then I need to get it done!

See that blue piece of tape in there?  That's marking our only stud that actually runs where I'll be able to hit it...there's one at the very edge on the left too...but I probably won't be able to get a screw into that unless I use one that's really long!  Anyway....this room is SO close to being done now!

Kade got the fillers & side trim done in the dining room.  I'm so glad he's doing that because I sure don't have the patience to cut all those filler strips!!  Darn old walls!!

It's also done in the kitchen!  Now we can do the backsplash this week!  YEAH!  Then I think all we need are the window headers and appliances and the kitchen will also be done!

(oh wait...gotta install the faucet still too!)

Looks pretty darn good (besides the mess on the counter & island, lol)

More headers are up.  LOVE THEM!!!

And the filler strips are cut and installed in the front bedroom.  That means the sides can be cut tomorrow and then hopefully we can get some more headers built this week too!  YEAH!

It REALLY is coming together...slowly but surely!

Hopefully tomorrow will be another beautiful day and we can get lots of cutting done!