Wednesday, January 23, 2008

trim is good





No, it is not exactly the same height everywhere, but you'll just have to live with it.

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OK, I feel I need to address the 'not all the same height' issue in a little more detail. All the tall trim you see is original. It's like a foot tall, with various ridges and detail. Interestingly, even the original trim does not all have the same detail--there are two versions in our bedroom.

Our original (pre-adoption) plan was to have new trim custom made to exactly match (one version of) the original trim. ahahaha! As you might guess, that was going to cost a small fortune & got de-prioritized.

Even if we had done this, it would have been impossible to ever get seamless trim, because the old trim is all now weirdly embedded into the newer drywall. So you would still have trim that sits on top of the drywall butted up against trim embedded in the drywall.

So we didn't do that.

We went to Home Depot & picked some of the tallest trim they had, which also happened to have some similar detail. And them we built up another layer of shorter trim, and a layer of quarter round on top of it AND on top of the old trim, to try to blend it together in a not-too offensive manner.

No, we won't win an awards for historical accuracy or perfection. But unless you are actually looking at one of the corners where the height changes, I don't think it is too terrible looking.

And that is why the heights are different.

3 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Mom caught the trim that wasn't the same height right off the bat!! Pretty funny you put that comment right below the pictures. Looks great.

4:11 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Wow, quite impressive. Very cool - I want to do this to our house!

8:01 AM  
Blogger Mike Greene said...

Thanks. We had to give up our dream of matching trim for a cute little baby. We almost have our stairs finished. Wait until you see pictures of how good they look.

6:16 PM  

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