Welcome, Wall-E

Next step was the trim: the casings and molding around the window and closet door, and the baseboards. I seem to recall a rather late-evening trip to The Depot to pick out the wood for this and sort of feeling too tired to make good choices. Luckily Troy kept us on track and we ended up with pieces I really like.

Not all went so smoothly, however. Troy has a chop saw that got about the same time we also got a child. So...it's been around a long old time. When he went to make the first 45 degree cut for the molding around the door, it became extremely clear that we had a problem. It wasn't cutting in line with the laser, and we couldn't figure out how to fix that. We realized that we had two choices. One was to just do our best with each and every angle cut, slicing off more and more to get each piece right, or we could go shopping.

Now, Troy has been considering getting a nice sliding compound miter saw. But he hadn't exactly picked it out yet, and he does not like to be rushed. I told him that I was sorry that he was being pushing into making a large tool purchase under duress. That's not the way he is. But we both agreed that fighting with the old chop saw over every single angle was going to be an absolute nightmare. Another later-evening trip to The Depot and we came home with our newest friend. 

Meet Wall-E.

It only took a couple of silky-smooth cuts for us to both feel very very happy that Wall-E had joined our family. That lovely Dewalt made life so much better as we were putting up all the trim. We are very blessed with tools.

My main job was to be the painter. I know it's usual to use a flat paint for ceilings, and an eggshell or satin for walls, then a glossy paint on the trim. I hereby declare that using glossy paint is the absolute worst. It's so sticky! I did not especially enjoy the painting process. Like painting with half-dried glue.

 

Here is Troy putting another new tool to excellent use - a pneumatic finish nailer. We love it. 

 

 

The room looked pretty great with all of its trim in place! 

One thing we decided to be picky about was the closet doors. Sorry to be snobby, but we just did not want hollow-core doors. We wanted something nice and solid. Troy picked out these solid doors months ago, and they have been patiently waiting their turn on the back porch ever since. What a treat to finally put them in. Troy knew what kind of hardware he wanted for these heavy doors - he picked out some heavy-duty smooth-as-butter things made for 200lb doors. Worth it. 

  

 

In the words of a certain Star Wars pilot named Porkins....Almost There! Stay on target!