June 25th.... baseboard trim FINISHED

Started out with a few weeks of evenings & weekends up in the loft. Used Bondo & Polyfil to smooth out the 12' boards that were once subfloor.














Also cut the tops of the old rinky-dink 3" baseboards. Routered them and then sanded & painted.














The top peices will fit over the routered top edge on the planks:














Had to make 54 new corner pieces for the doorway casings. I couldn't find anything that would "quite" work. I decided to make my own. These started out as four carefully picked 2x6s. A few hours on the table saw & router and I had what I wanted:














Everything was sanded, primed, "filled", sanded, painted, sanded and then painted again. JT helped out, and in return I did the headgasket in his Hondie.

We both took Friday off, and started with all the furniture shoved aside.




























JT gave me the whole day, and we got all the casing "corners" & planks up. Thumper came by after work and did the side entranceway, a very tricky area. There is not a straight wall or floor in the house.

By Sunday evening, all the trim was up, Dap'd and painted.

As a "value add", Jt and I put new flooring in the hallway upstairs. I used leftovers from the Great Kitchen Floor Project.

I made a threshold using the my favorite plank. When I had them milled, they said there was one they couldn't plane because it had staples and nails in it. When he was showing it to me, we noticed that it was actually lead shot! It had been varnished over several times, so at some point someone fired a shotgun in that little church. I used that board to make a threshold last week. I think it tells an interesting story:

Turned out really, really nice. I am so happy with the results.