I’ve been working on finishing up the trim in the studio, but I’ve been met with some challenges and one of the most absurd roadblocks I’ve ever experienced in all of my years of DIYing and remodeling.
I’m very glad that I finally got this area to the left of the paint swatch cabinet trimmed out. This was a challenge. I had to move the cabinet out so that I had room to work back there, and that cabinets is big and heavy. And then, once I got that tiny bit of baseboard installed, I had to move the cabinet back, making sure it was snug up against the baseboard with no gaps between the ends of the trim pieces and the cabinet. I thought I was never going to get the cabinet in place, but with sheer determination, patience, and a rubber mallet, I finally got it where it needed to be.
I still have to do all of the caulking and painting, but I think I can get that part done with the cabinet in place.
With that done, I thought that I had finished the hardest part of the trim, but I was wrong. Next, I moved to trimming out the doorway that leads to the sitting room/breakfast room area. But when I went to install the half jamb on the studio side of the pocket door, I couldn’t get the door to move over in the slot enough for the 1″ x 2″ jamb piece to attach where it needed to go.
After getting a flashlight and trying to find the problem, I finally realized that there were two things pushing the door over to the side. First, there was a random piece of wood in there.
But also, there’s an entire roll of painter’s tape on this side of the door!!!
Y’all! How in the heck did that happen?! How and why is there an entire roll of painters tape inside the wall? And it’s on the breakfast room side of the door, so it’s pushing the door over in the slot and affecting the opening and closing of the door.
I spent about an hour trying everything I could think of to get that roll of painters tape out of there, but I had no success. I mean, I tried hot glue on the end of a paint stir stick, quick dry epoxy on the end of paint stir stick. But just as I’d start pulling the roll of painters tape, the adhesive would release and the tape would roll back.
The only thing I can think of is that I’ll have to cut a hole in the drywall on the breakfast room side, remove the painters tape (along with that random piece of wood), and then patch up the drywall.
This is truly one of the most absurd and baffling things I’ve ever had to deal with in my years of DIYing and remodeling. I mean…WHY? HOW? I have no explanation. 😀
But I did manage to move the roll of tape enough so that I could proceed with installing the trim. I got the door trimmed out, including that half jamb piece, and then I got the baseboards installed on the long wall.
And speaking of baseboards, I don’t know if I’ve ever shared with y’all my favorite baseboard combo, so here it is. First, I install 1″ x 4″ lumber as the main piece.
For this wall, I had ot cut around the cabinets.
And then, along the floor, I add quarter round trim. Where the quarter round meets the door casing, I cut the end of the quarter round at a 22.5-degree angle.
And then on top of the 1″ x 4″ piece, I add base cap trim.
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
