Trimtastick!

While continued detail progress has been sporadic, it has also finally come to fruition! Here's what's been going on in the wide world of trim work!

For starters, I took a step back from the house and noticed that I hadn't yet finished all of the trim in the family room. Um, what?! I had no idea that I just whiffed half the room! So, I got busy not only putting in the rest of the baseboards and crown moldings but also filling the gaps between the ceiling and crown molding:

The filler is peeking out from the crown molding on the left.

This wall needed more filling than the other.
The paper is there to catch the filler crumbs.

After letting that dry and painting it, it looks great!

My key to success? THIS:

I know I said the previous product I used was okay, but those days are over. It was really difficult to work with, but this stuff is the stuff! It dries fast but not too fast which is the problem with the other. Anyway, easy-easy and great outcome!

Once I believed I finished the first floor, I moved on to the second! I forgot about painting doors, so I put up the molding I could by working around the doors taped in:

I borrowed the French doors in the dining room to fit the molding
for the master bath opening. That same door is in the mail as we
speak so I can finish up that room! Oh, and the bathtub in the
kitchen is not going to be a thing.

The door needed a lot of taping to make
sure it didn't move. It fits the opening
*just so*.

Then, I finally made myself sit down and get busy painting the doors:

Who else thinks I just block this out of my
brain as something to do because it's not
the most fun thing to do?!

In no time, the doors could be installed:

There's my super-useful, home made
t-square back in use!

To maintain the height needed to correctly
fit the opening, a stack of paint cards did
the trick!

One of the features of this house is that many walls are repositionable. But, that also means they may be a little wibble-wobbly. So, I created a little masking tape wedge to go between the wall and the ceiling on the divider between the bedroom and hallway:

If you look really carefully in the house, you
can see a little, bitty piece of masking tape
peeking out at the ceiling. So, don't look.

That tape wedge was the perfect solution to let me go forth! Baseboards and crown moldings, here I come!!

My enthusiasm was doused just a little pretty quickly. Dousing number one (not my fault): I realized I didn't have enough baseboard to complete this level. But, upon returning to Hobby Lobby to purchase it, I find out they are out-out-out of this baseboard! As in, it's not being restocked, nor is it available online. DRAT! Fortunately, I found trim I really like that is the same size vertically as the rest in the house. That was a trick because their stock has moved into taller, more make-a-statement baseboard which I don't like. The trim I found is labeled for windows and doors, but it looked great for floors to me.

The other dousing (completely my fault): I had exactly the number of pieces of crown molding that I needed to finish the master bedroom, kid room and hallway. The only thing I needed to do was to cut each piece correctly. And, you can already guess the end of the story is that I didn't. In fact, I blew it on the first cut. And, in need of just a single piece, I wasn't going to purchase the four-pack. Fast-forward to the happy ending when I report that the bedrooms are molded, the hallway is not, and I am very happy with the outcome!

The kid room needed the same TLC wood filler needed in the family room. The wall warping that Christened the beginning of this build came back to bite me in that the molding didn't really sit flat against the wall like it's supposed to.

I'm just saying if you find the right adhesive that's really strong and really fast-drying, you can accomplish the seemingly impossible.

It's fun - typical - that I had the paint out to touch up the filler in
the kid room and completely forgot to touch up the corners in
the master.

And, just for fun, I thought I would point this out:

Ignore the video arrow. It wasn't
even a video, so I have no words.

That lighter line at the bottom of the stairs comes from the light under the master bedroom door. I loved realizing this because the doors in our house have enough of a gap under them to let light come under them, too. It just works for me.

Third floor trim work is on the agenda! I don't promise staying focused on just that project especially because I have yet another baseboard supply issue going on. I'm pretty determined to resolve that in some fashion by the weekend, though, so I'm hopeful for a third-floor update on the immediate horizon!