Trim Part 2

There wasn't much progress this week in terms of heavy lifting/hard labor, it was a lot if baby steps. Last week we cut, sanded, routed, and primed all of the trim, this week we put it up.

We started with the trim for the entryway since it's the first place guests would see, should we have any. To be fair, we don't really have guests, but by the time we do, the entry will look great!

Let's take a trip down memory lane and see what our entry started as.

This picture is probably from the first week or two we were in the house. This is taken from the living room looking into the dining room. The living room was sunken by about 3 inches, we had ripped up all the carpet, but the tile was still in the entry and the linoleum was still in the dining room.

We opened up both arches, starting with the one leading to the living room, to create a more open space instead of walking straight through the front door into a wall.

A week or so later we had the sunken livingroom filled and brought it all up to one level.

We took down the popcorn ceiling,, painted, and then added crown moulding. (And caulked it like our lives depended on it)

Just a couple weeks ago we finally added new tile.

That brings us to this week. We added the door trim around the doorways where we took out the arches.

Don't mind the giant scratch on my door. That's what happens when you use water based paint over oil based, it flakes right off. I'll be repainting it eventually.

No more exposed ragged drywall, just clean, gorgeous doorways! I spent the better part of the weekend filling holes, caulking gaps, and mudding unevenness. We ripped a board to fill the inside of the doorway a few weeks ago so when we put up the trim it didn't line up perfectly to create a smooth casing so I had to work my magic with the spackle.

I still need one more good coat of mud and then I'll be ready for primer then paint. Those are my goals this week.

This is the trim style we'll be using throughout the house on the doors, and eventually around the windows. It has a bit of a farmhouse/cottage feel that I hope leans beachy once we are all done, regardless, I think it elevates the space and really makes it stand out.

We have 10 more doorways to trim out, but the big ones are done (until we tackle the sliders, but they're pretty far down the list), and these two were the hardest because of their size and the missing drywall we were covering. The others should go a little smoother.

In addition to getting up the trim, Scott hung our dartboard outside and I cleaned and painted the light fixture from the hallway and Scott put it back up for me.

The house came with three circa 1979 lucite chandeliers, one in the entry, the dining room, and the hallway. I've been hanging onto them, unsure if they're past their prime in all their brassy glory, and decided to see what I could do with the small one. It was filthy from being in the garage for months (not that it was really clean prior to that) so it got a good wash down.

Once it was back to being shiny I took it to the garage for a coat of a softer, more modern, gold spray paint.

The picture doesn't do it justice, it's pretty cool!

I don't know that I'll be using the other two, but this one is pretty neat, and a nice nod to the era of the home.

Looking through these photos and just listing the steps we took for even our small 4'x10' entry makes me appreciate just how far we have come in the last 4 months. It's flown by, it's been hard, but it's totally been worth it.

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