The Walk-In Closet Is All Trimmed Out

Issues are transferring proper alongside on my walk-in closet mission! I now have the entire thing trimmed out (aside from three items), however I nonetheless don’t have the gorgeous molding connected but. I’ve been within the wooden filling and sanding stage for the final two days. As quickly as I get by way of that course of, I’ll connect the gorgeous molding, perform a little little bit of wooden filling on these nail holes, after which begin caulking every little thing. If issues go as deliberate, I hope to be able to prime and paint this weekend or early subsequent week on the newest!

Right here’s what the closet appears like now that the opposite facet of the room has been trimmed out.

This facet of the room clearly had lots much less trim that needed to be put in, but it surely additionally gave me essentially the most issues. I assumed I’d by no means get these cabinets straight. Discover I mentioned “straight” and never “degree” as a result of when working in a 70+ year-old house, nothing is completely degree, sq., or plumb. That implies that if I connected the highest trim alongside the ceiling after which had the cabinets completely degree, they’d look fully off with one another. So it’s a balancing act when coping with older houses. You need issues to be as degree as attainable, realizing that they’re not going to ever be completely degree, whereas additionally making them look uniform with one another. That requires a whole lot of “splitting the distinction” when putting in cabinets inside sq. cupboard models that aren’t sitting completely plumb on an unlevel ground and with an unlevel ceiling.

However I lastly acquired them trying proper…I feel. I did one of the best I might with what I needed to work with.

I additionally acquired a bit slowed down by redoing the cupboard on the precise facet of the doorway. I had that cupboard in place and screwed to the facet cupboard, and had it nearly fully trimmed out. Then I made a decision to redo it. The explanation?

Once I put in it the primary time, in an effort to get these two cupboards completely spaced with the doorway, the sting of the cupboard on the left facet was completely aligned with the entrance fringe of the facet cupboard. However in an effort to preserve that spacing across the doorway, the cupboard on the precise facet needed to be hidden an inch extra behind the facet cupboard on the precise that it was linked to. That meant that the doorways on the left cupboard would have been an inch narrower than the doorways on the precise cupboard.

That didn’t set nicely with me. I attempted to brush it off and simply transfer ahead with trimming out the cupboard, however I couldn’t let it go. So I ended up taking off the trim, unscrewing that cupboard from the facet cupboard, transferring it over an inch (which I assumed I’d by no means get performed as a result of it’s such a good squeeze), screwing these cupboards again collectively, and beginning over on the trim.

Now the 2 cupboards have the identical width displaying, and the doorways would be the similar width on each cupboards. However now the doorway isn’t completely centered between these cupboards.

However I’ll care for that after I trim out the doorway. I’ll simply shim the door jamb on the precise facet in order that it’s an inch away from the tough framing, and that can make the doorway centered between the cupboards once more. Fortuitously, I’ve 38 inches of width to work with on that doorway, so shedding an inch on that facet received’t matter.

As a result of I wasted lumber by re-trimming that cupboard, I ran out of lumber to make use of to trim out the dryer cupboard. However that’s okay. It’s simply three items. I can try this in a short time.

But it surely’s transferring proper alongside! I nonetheless have at the very least two days of labor forward of me (not counting in the present day as a result of I don’t have a whole lot of time to work on Wednesdays). However tomorrow and Friday will probably be all about wooden filling, sanding, and caulking.

And I’m so glad I waited to complete the doorway till after the cupboards have been all put in! It nonetheless wants some framing and drywall performed earlier than I can trim out that doorway. However had I already completed that, it will now be off heart with the cupboards. Now I can get the doorway completely centered with the cupboards on the primary go ’spherical.

Additionally, I need to level out that the hole between the highest trim and the ceiling will disappear as soon as the gorgeous molding goes on. The crown molding will cover that hole and go all the way in which to the ceiling.

And right here’s a glance again the opposite course. I’m so enthusiastic about how that is shaping up!!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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