Period appropriate trim
By sevenofiveThere are several generations of trim throughout the house.
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.
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Rehabbing Prairie Style American Foursquare (1910).
jasimar
So gorgeous! Your putting my diy skills to shame. Please.. don't look at my kitchen post. I'm suddenly and quite utterly humbled (read: embarrassed).
I'm sorry that I have no productive advice to add.. I can only lavish with envy and complimentary praise. Well done.
bruno
Hi Sevenoffive: just a reminder that after you upload photos, you have to drag them into your blog post (if you're on Firefox or IE), or click the 'insert this image' link (on Safari).
Looks like you uploaded some pics that didn't make it into the post.
Thanks!
bruno
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