Molding and baseboards

Here are some photos of the first stages of getting the baseboards and crown molding up.  The baseboards were easy: nice right angles.  We just had to cut out holes for the outlets.  The crown molding on the other hand, was a bitch and a half.  Even with some how-to videos that made it seem like a snap, figuring out the angles of the cuts on the mitre saw plus getting all our measurements exact proved to be way more tricky than we thought.  At least its on the wall now.

Baseboards up.  Room is a mess again. 

Cutting the molding.  We eventually moved the saw outside because cutting the large pieces was so unwieldy.

Curse you, corners!  We eventually gave up on trying to get the long pieces to fit into the corners and just made our corners out of smaller pieces.  The corners are only primed, not painted, but I'll have to paint over caulk and nail holes anyway, so they'll get painted in the process.

Molding is ON, praise the lord.

I also covered the nail holes on the baseboards. So now we have to caulk the joints between the crown molding pieces, caulk the edges on the baseboards and molding, and touch up painting.  Then we can move furniture into the room!  We still have to finish the windows, but that shouldn't be too difficult.  Sooo close to having this room done!

2 more productive days

We picked out the crown molding and bought baseboards, and I got them primed & painted.  Here is my little basement painting station.

Now we need to get them cut, cut holes for outlets in the baseboards, and get them on the wall. 

Mitch finished the floor refinishing by putting on a couple coats of the polyurethane finish.

Here is the room, post final coat of finish.  Thats a high shine!

Coming right along, slowly but surely.

Trim painted, floor stained

Cruising right along.  Got the paint on the trim today (at least the portion of the trim that is still on the wall). 

The ugly areas on the top of the bottom of the room still need baseboards and crown molding, and we haven't even bought that yet, let alone painted it.  We will probably paint it first, then put it on. 

I also put the first coat of stain on the floor today.  The room is looking more and more like a room, which is making me happy. 

Here we are prepped and ready for trim painting.

Post trim painting, pre floor staining:

Rogue on the sanded, unstained floor:

Putting stain on:

Finished product, floor stained and trim painted!

Tomorrow is my last day off, and there's not too much left that I can do by myself.  I may put a second coat of stain on the floor, and I may prime more of the closet (which is a bitch bastard due to shitty texturing and shitty plaster, but I'll be damned if I'm tearing down and drywalling the tiny closet.  NOT worth it).

Once the floor is stained, I'll have Mitch put the polyurethene finish on and we'll let that sit 24 hours, in the meantime we can pick out crown molding and pick up baseboards.   Getting those guys on should be a snap (famous last words?).  We also have to put the window frames back up (oh, and I should probably paint those...add that to the to do list) once Mitch has put new cords and weights on the windows.  I did paint the window frames today, so those are ready to be put on.  I think once thats done, we're done!  Then we move into the room and start picking out curtains and assembling baby furniture... 

Paint is on!

Ok so Mitch is in Nashville now and its all me...painting, painting, painting. 

Here are the new walls:

Tape off:

Doors painted the color the trim is going to be.  Its just got primer on it now.

Tomorrow I'm going to get the trim painted.   Then I will start staining the floor.  When Mitch gets bakc, we need to get the crown molding and baseboards up.  Slowly but surely it turns into a room.

Priming the walls

Ok, so we have something that is starting to look like a real room.

First, you must appreciate what I'm dealing with here.  Here is the paint job that the previous owners did in the closet. There are three different colors.  Three.  It looks like they ran out of paint and were like "fuck it."  The white splotches on the brown section are me, mudding over holes. 

So here is the room prepped for painting.  Finally done with the dang drywall joints!

Primer is on!

Now I have a day of work, then I am going to try to power through the painting as much as I can while Mitch is in Nashville for a conference.  Its the final countdown...