I spent yesterday including all the fairly molding and a bit flourish to my closet cupboards. I’ve to snicker at myself since you’d suppose that after 30+ years of DIYing, I’d have a way more practical understanding of how lengthy these items ought to take, and but, it looks as if I’ll by no means be taught.
Earlier than final weekend, I assumed that I might spend a few hours including all the molding, one other couple of hours priming and caulking, after which be capable to paint no less than 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 hooked up, 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 large initiatives commonly, 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 is going to be a really lengthy sequence of posts on my greatest constructed but — my walk-in closet and laundry mixture. When you missed the earlier submit, you will discover that right here: The Stroll-In Closet Is All Trimmed Out
The excellent news is that all the trim and molding is now put in. I’ll most likely be including two extra cabinets, and people will want trim as nicely. I’m nonetheless figuring out these particulars. However so far as the cupboards and cabinets which are at the moment within the room, these are all trimmed out, and I now have all the fairly molding put in additionally.
Earlier than I put in the gorgeous trim, I made a decision so as to add a bit flourish to the cupboards. To do that, I lower 12 items of 1″x5″ lumber (which is definitely 4.5″ broad) into 4.5″ squares. After which I made a mark one inch on within the prime left facet and the underside proper facet.
Utilizing a one-gallon paint can, I traced a curve between these two marks.
It regarded 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 hooked up 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 feel. (I’ve to confess that I’ve been second-guessing that call, so we’ll see.)
I want that I might have made these items a bit bit greater, however I had to make use of the highest shoe shelf (the shortest shelf on the appropriate part on the appropriate wall) to find out how huge these items might 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 most important I might make them…
As soon as they have been all hooked up, 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 very huge molding, however on the left facet 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 in an effort to faux the look of a very huge 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 approach, it has the looks of a giant crown molding, however it doesn’t stick out too removed from the cupboards like an enormous crown molding would since a lot 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 lower. So reducing them is as straightforward as reducing baseboards. You don’t have to determine spring angles and lower them like crown molding, which may get sophisticated for non-pros.
Right here’s a greater view of the highest molding. You’ll be able to see that a lot of the ornamental components are literally baseboard that’s hooked up 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 outdated dwelling 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 under) the place the molding merely wouldn’t sit in opposition to the ceiling regardless of how onerous I pushed on it.
And since I couldn’t get the lengthy piece to take a seat in opposition to the ceiling, I needed to drop the piece connecting to it on the opposite cupboard down a bit as nicely.
You’ll be able to see that on the opposite finish of this wall as nicely the place there’s a spot between the molding and the ceiling.
I’m not anxious about that as a result of caulk will magically make these gaps disappear, and as soon as it’s all painted, it would look as good as something can look in an almost-80-year-old dwelling.
The opposite facet of the room wasn’t fairly as a lot of an issue. A lot of the prime trim on that facet 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 maintain that drawback.
And on this facet, I received the little thrives sanded and primed, however I nonetheless have to prime the within of the cupboards and the cabinets…
I additionally received all the baseboards hooked up across the backside of the cupboards.
I shall be including shoe molding as nicely, 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 evening, right here’s what the left facet of the room appears to be like like with all the trim and molding put in…
Immediately, I have to get these thrives (I’m positive these have a correct title, however I don’t now what it’s) on the appropriate facet of the room sanded and primed, after which proceed with priming the remainder of the cupboards. I additionally have to determine if I wish to add these different two cabinets as a result of if I do, that clearly must be accomplished whereas I’m nonetheless on this section of the challenge. I don’t wish to get all of this primed, caulked, and painted, after which have to return and add two extra cabinets.
And I additionally have to determine for positive if I need doorways on the cupboards flanking the doorway. I actually like the way it appears to be like with the open cabinets, and if I need these objects out of sight, I might at all times use fairly baskets to retailer issues.
I simply maintain pondering that we’ll finally have a complete storage closet (the present hallway toilet) the place I can retailer something I need saved out of sight, and I actually just like the consistency of getting all the cupboards on this room open. I simply don’t know that I wish to damage that consistency by having two cupboards with doorways on them. *Sigh* I hate being undecided on these issues this late within the challenge, however that’s how my thoughts works. I typically change my thoughts and make modifications mid-project. I don’t thoughts altering plans as I am going alongside, however I hate being undecided.
So I’ll be again at it at present! Extra sanding, extra priming, and hopefully I can get to the caulking at present. And I’ll most likely be including two extra cabinets earlier than the day is over.
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