We’re back from another weekend of working on our dining room. Are we slow? Absolutely. But who cares? We can take as much time as we want, it’s our house! Feel free to take the time it needs when doing the same in your own home. It’s okay to resist the made up, social media inspired timelines for your life.

Anyway, we are so, so happy with how this is turning out. This is how we started: openings with no trim. When our house was being framed, I noticed that there were no visual breaks in the ceiling between the rooms in our wide open first floor. My husband and our contractor quickly framed out some openings before the drywall sub came out.

In order to add the trim and not look silly or have to be cut (since our thermostat is just on the other side of this little wall), we had to build them out.

Then we started on the trim boards! The amount of shims needed to make the top of these openings level was comical…

This part took the longest. But, boy was it worth it when the trim went up. When we tacked up our test pieces they lined up perfectly. Ahhhhhhh!

It took a while and a few trips to Home Depot and the lumber yard where we bought our windows and doors to figure out what trim to use. I didn’t realize our door trim came in a 5 1/4” width, and I am so glad, as it is exactly what should have been there all along.

The most tedious parts of the trim were the top pieces. It took several tries and saw-blade length cuts to get right. One piece was cut just too short. I was prepared to leave it, as it was 10pm by that point. When the question was raised, Austin said, “I’m a perfectionist. Let’s try one more board.” I knew I loved that man! And of course, perfect. Except that we needed another long board to finish and the lumber yard was closed. Still, #worthit.

While this was going on, I kept feeling that the window just didn’t match the new trim. Austin, being the sweetheart that he is, pulled the 1×2” boards off the main trim to see if it would work. And there it is! With the casing trim around the edge, it’s just like it was supposed to be.

While we didn’t get as much finished as I’d hoped, I am so pleased with the results that I don’t even care. Enjoy the process!

xo, Amanda