I spent yesterday including the entire fairly molding and just a little flourish to my closet cupboards. I’ve to chortle at myself since you’d assume that after 30+ years of DIYing, I’d have a way more reasonable understanding of how lengthy these items ought to take, and but, it looks like I’ll by no means study.
Earlier than final weekend, I believed that I may spend a few hours including the entire molding, one other couple of hours priming and caulking, after which be capable of paint at the least among the cupboards earlier than the top of the weekend. However right here I’m on Tuesday morning, and I’ve solely now gotten the gorgeous molding connected, I don’t even have half of the cupboards primed but, and I haven’t even began on the caulking. Ugh. I don’t do these big initiatives repeatedly, so within the interim, I appear to neglect simply how lengthy all of those completely different steps really take. However possibly…simply possibly…I’ll be prepared to color the cupboards by the top of this week.
This is just one half of what’s going to be a really lengthy sequence of posts on my greatest constructed but — my walk-in closet and laundry mixture. In case you missed the earlier publish, you could find that right here: The Stroll-In Closet Is All Trimmed Out
The excellent news is that the entire trim and molding is now put in. I’ll in all probability be including two extra cabinets, and people will want trim as properly. I’m nonetheless understanding these particulars. However so far as the cupboards and cabinets which are presently within the room, these are all trimmed out, and I now have the entire fairly molding put in additionally.
Earlier than I put in the gorgeous trim, I made a decision so as to add just a little flourish to the cupboards. To do that, I reduce 12 items of 1″x5″ lumber (which is definitely 4.5″ large) into 4.5″ squares. After which I made a mark one inch on within the prime left aspect and the underside proper aspect.
Utilizing a one-gallon paint can, I traced a curve between these two marks.
It seemed like this with the curve traced on it…
After which I used my band noticed to chop the curve.
I repeated that 11 extra instances, after which I connected these items to the within prime corners of every of the six cupboard sections utilizing wooden glue and 16-gauge 2-inch nails.
I didn’t add these items to the cupboards flanking the door as a result of I’m planning on including cupboard doorways to these cupboards…I believe. (I’ve to confess that I’ve been second-guessing that call, so we’ll see.)
I want that I may have made these items just a little bit greater, however I had to make use of the highest shoe shelf (the shortest shelf on the precise part on the precise wall) to find out how massive these items may very well be..
I didn’t need these ornamental items to be jammed proper up in opposition to that prime shelf. I wished to depart some house between these items and the highest shelf, so I decided that 4.5 inches was the largest I may make them…
As soon as they have been all connected, and the wooden glue had time to dry, I piled on the wooden filler…
Whereas the wooden filler dried, I labored on the ornamental molding. For the highest molding, I didn’t use common crown molding as a result of I wished so as to add a extremely massive molding, however on the left aspect of the room, the HVAC vent is fairly near the cupboards.
I didn’t need the molding getting to shut to that air vent, so so as to faux the look of a extremely massive crown molding, I used the identical trick that I used on the cupboards in my studio by utilizing a 3.25-inch baseboard and attaching a tiny crown molding to the highest. That manner, it has the looks of a giant crown molding, nevertheless it doesn’t stick out too removed from the cupboards like a giant crown molding would since many of the molding (i.e., the baseboard) is mendacity flat in opposition to the highest of the cupboards. The one projection is that tiny crown molding on the very prime.
The bonus is that this technique of putting in prime molding is a lot simpler than putting in crown molding as a result of the 2 items are glued and nailed collectively first earlier than they’re reduce. So reducing them is as straightforward as reducing baseboards. You don’t have to determine spring angles and reduce them like crown molding, which might get sophisticated for non-pros.
Right here’s a greater view of the highest molding. You possibly can see that many of the ornamental components are literally baseboard that’s connected flat in opposition to the highest of the cupboards, and solely the highest 1.5 inches is tiny crown molding that has an angle to it.
Attaching the highest molding was nonetheless a little bit of a problem, although, as a result of the ceiling on this room is simply not flat. Oh, the enjoyment of working in an previous house the place nothing is flat, sq., or plumb! So there are areas the place the molding is correct up in opposition to the ceiling, and different areas (as you possibly can see within the nook beneath) the place the molding merely wouldn’t sit in opposition to the ceiling irrespective of how onerous I pushed on it.
And since I couldn’t get the lengthy piece to sit down in opposition to the ceiling, I needed to drop the piece connecting to it on the opposite cupboard down a bit as properly.
You possibly can see that on the opposite finish of this wall as properly the place there’s a spot between the molding and the ceiling.
I’m not apprehensive about that as a result of caulk will magically make these gaps disappear, and as soon as it’s all painted, it can look as good as something can look in an almost-80-year-old house.
The opposite aspect of the room wasn’t fairly as a lot of an issue. Many of the prime trim on that aspect is in opposition to the ceiling, however I did have a little bit of an issue across the cupboard flanking the doorway. However once more, caulk will care for that downside.
And on this aspect, I obtained the little prospers sanded and primed, however I nonetheless have to prime the within of the cupboards and the cabinets…
I additionally obtained the entire baseboards connected across the backside of the cupboards.
I will likely be including shoe molding as properly, however I have to get the flooring refinished earlier than I connect these.
After which the baseboards proceed across the sides of the washer and dryer cupboards to tie all of them collectively and end off the underside of these cupboards.
And right here’s a have a look at how they wrap round to the cupboards flanking the doorway.
In order of final night time, right here’s what the left aspect of the room appears like with the entire trim and molding put in…
At present, I have to get these prospers (I’m positive these have a correct title, however I don’t now what it’s) on the precise aspect of the room sanded and primed, after which proceed with priming the remainder of the cupboards. I additionally have to resolve if I need to add these different two cabinets as a result of if I do, that clearly must be accomplished whereas I’m nonetheless on this part of the venture. I don’t need to get all of this primed, caulked, and painted, after which have to return and add two extra cabinets.
And I additionally have to resolve for positive if I would like doorways on the cupboards flanking the doorway. I actually like the way it appears with the open cabinets, and if I would like these objects out of sight, I may all the time use fairly baskets to retailer issues.
I simply hold considering that we’ll ultimately have a complete storage closet (the present hallway toilet) the place I can retailer something I would like saved out of sight, and I actually just like the consistency of getting the entire cupboards on this room open. I simply don’t know that I need to destroy that consistency by having two cupboards with doorways on them. *Sigh* I hate being undecided on these issues this late within the venture, however that’s how my thoughts works. I usually change my thoughts and make adjustments mid-project. I don’t thoughts altering plans as I’m going alongside, however I hate being undecided.
So I’ll be again at it as we speak! Extra sanding, extra priming, and hopefully I can get to the caulking as we speak. And I’ll in all probability be including two extra cabinets earlier than the day is over.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You possibly can study extra about me right here.
