Spring Family Projects

DIY - Sky Fort Playset along with much unwanted landscaping

DIY - Media Server to replace all (or most) of the kid DVDs

DIY - Period appropriate trim

There are several generations of trim throughout the house. My goal was to get the look of the room back to what it probably was in 1910. The house is a Prairie Style American Foursquare.

Before: (Note 1/4" oak flooring, no longer mass produced, was repaired using salvage material from closets and another room.)

Base:
As far as I could determine most of the original base was 1x8 Douglas fir routed
with a shallow round. There wasn't much of this left in the house.
(I won't go into the other generations of trim here.) Routing 1x8 (or
1x10) white pine was my plan B. I wanted something a little more ornate
and I wanted something 8+". I searched high and low at all of the home
improvement places and local trim shops. Couldn't find the base I needed.
It was all short, <8", a dull style, or made of some composite material.

I went with a standard pine base cap and a standard 11/16x11/16 shoe. The
base I decided on was pine exterior siding. The cap sat on it perfectly
and it gave me the marriage of the height I wanted along with the flourish of
the cap and base.

Windows: As far as I could tell the original window trim was 1x6 doug routed with a shallow round. (Again, I won't go into the previous generations of window trim.) The tops of the windows had crown molding. Apparently the old crown was solid where the new crown leaves a void where you don't see it (?) Found something close enough and it looks great. (I believe it is 2 1/4" bed moulding as I have since used this in several areas of the house.

Almost done. Still need
to do door hardware, closet light, and vent covers.

Trooper relaxing in one of his new rooms.

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