Then I looked over, and noticed by wife. Who said to me “Mistakes were made.”
And around then is when I noticed how hazy the air was in the basement. And how everything seemed to have a slight layer of dust. Which ended up not being dust, but ash.
After the work of cutting everything, we tackled reorganizing our piles. We had smaller groups of trim for each window, but also had a lot of stuff that wasn’t going to be used in the near future. And needed to get put away (for a while, anyhow).
Back in the basement, suited up after a long day at work. We were able to make more progress on pairing boards together. And got some rough cuts in, for the windows.
With our newer cut list defined, Liz went about trying to match boards for each window (casings to match the stool/apron, etc). And after all this planning and talk, we finally set about making a few cuts, tonight.
There’s more to do yet, but actually cutting down some boards into rough lengths was a big deal for us. Trim is a newer endeavor, and tonight was a big, first step.
But what started as some research into how to cut returns for a window stool… ended up being an all-day conversation.
We spent a long while looking over trim videos online, trying to track down how to measure/estimate the length needed to cut a return for a window stool.
I walked downstairs this morning to see this: a whole mess of shellac flakes sitting on a coffee filter.
To get them off the tops of our sawhorses, we had to do this threading motion (feeding them in at an angle). A little challenging given that these were super-long boards, in a basement.
The storage we have against the wall is made of three sawhorses. Think about making a tight three-point turn in a car, and you’ll kind of get the gist of what we had to do.
Liz, looking over the window trim. We set up a set of horses, where we were able to stack and assess each piece.
Honestly, this took a lot longer than we anticipated. We’ve actually been doing this for a few nights, and it’s been a slow slog, with us putting in a few hours each night.
Big day for us – we have a scheduled delivery of our interior trim. It’s not everything we need for the house – but it’s all for the first floor.