I’m making regular progress on my walk-in closet. I lastly needed to take a time off on Friday, although. I had been working for 2 weeks straight with out a break on the closet, and my exhaustion hit some extent on Friday that I made a decision I wanted to take at some point to relaxation earlier than I injure myself. So on Saturday, I used to be capable of get to the enjoyable stuff — including trim to the boring plywood packing containers and cabinets. I used to be so excited to lastly get up to now as a result of it’s the trim and molding that take advantage of distinction.
This is just one half of what’s going to be a really lengthy collection of posts on my greatest constructed but — my walk-in closet and laundry mixture. In case you missed the earlier put up, you’ll find that right here: Closet Progress – The Basic Build Is Finished!
After ending the essential construct on this closet, that is what the cupboards regarded like…
And since it’s the aspect that requires essentially the most trim, I made a decision to begin to begin trimming out the correct aspect of the room first.
Right here’s what that aspect of the room seems like now with the entire trim hooked up. I nonetheless have to put in the molding — the baseboards alongside the underside and the crown molding alongside the highest.
To trim out this aspect, I began with the longest horizontal items. On the underside, I used 1″x4″ pre-primed lumber.
And alongside the highest, I used 1″x6″ pre-primed lumber.
I made a mistake proper from the start as a result of I mitered the surface corners of the highest 1×6 boards. These ought to have been reduce straight. However I used to be working alone, and wrestling that 140-inch into place and nailing it into place, there was no approach I used to be going to take it down to chop it straight. So I made a decision to disregard it at this level and deal with it in a later step.
With the 2 high and backside horizontal items in place, I then hooked up the lengthy vertical items. I nailed the entire trim in place utilizing 16-gauge 2-inch nails via the face of the trim items and into the perimeters of the plywood. I used 1″x2″ items for the 2 outdoors vertical items, after which 1″x4″ items for the 2 on both aspect of the middle part. However earlier than attaching these, I used my desk noticed to tear them down to three.25″ large in order that they only coated the perimeters of the plywood packing containers in addition to the ends of the shelf helps.
And eventually, I used 1″x2″ lumber to cowl the perimeters of the cabinets.
Right here’s a take a look at the progress from the opposite path…
I did the entire wooden filling as I went, and in case you’ve been round for some time, that I exploit wooden filler very liberally. I do that for 2 causes. First, wooden filler shrinks because it dries. So in case you attempt to put it on completely clean, it should shrink into the joints and screw holes/nail holes because it dried, requiring a second coat. I keep away from having to do a second coat by sort of mounding it up on the joints and screw holes/nail holes. But additionally, I exploit my rotary sander to sand all of this clean as soon as it’s dry, so my sander makes very fast work of eradicating the entire extra and making these joints and nail holes/screw holes very clean.
So I ended my weekend by ensuring that every one of these joints, nail holes, and screw holes had been full of wooden filler.
I solely use wooden filler to cowl nail holes, screw holes, and joints the place two items meet on the identical aircraft. In different phrases, if it may be sanded clean with a rotary sander, I exploit wooden filler. If two items meet at an angle, for instance, the place the cabinets meet the cupboard packing containers, these areas get full of caulk. I didn’t get to that step but, and these cupboards would require a number of caulking earlier than I can prime and paint.
So that you’ll discover that I solely used wooden filler on the face of the trim the place they meet on the identical aircraft. However I didn’t use wooden filler the place the 2 trim items meet on high of the shelf and type a 90-degree nook. These areas shall be caulked.
However I did use wooden filler the place the trim and the plywood shelf meet on high of the cabinets as a result of that may be simply sanded with my rotary sander and depart a superbly clean transition between the 2 items.
I’ll wait till the opposite aspect is trimmed out and the wooden filler has had time to dry on that aspect earlier than I begin sanding in order that I can do it . So that is the place I left issues final evening. I additionally didn’t do any wooden filling on the washer cupboard as a result of I nonetheless have to take away that high trim piece and rip it down only a bit for my washer to suit inside the cupboard.
To treatment my mistake on the highest trim items the place I had mitered the corners as a substitute of reducing them straight, I used my Dremel Multi-Max to chop off the surplus from these boards that caught out previous the sting of the cupboard. The reduce was fairly tough at first, so then I used my rotary sander with 80-grit sanding discs to sand it clean. After which I piled on the wooden filler to fill in between the items. Once I connect the crown molding, that may wrap across the sides of the cupboards by the door and by the home equipment and can proceed across the room.
I repeated that course of on the opposite finish the place I had mistakenly reduce the piece at a 45-degree angle.
Repairing that mistake this fashion was an entire lot simpler than eradicating your entire lengthy piece that had been nailed in place with 16-gauge 2-inch nails, eradicating all of these nails, dragging that 140-inch piece again via the home and into the carport to chop off that mitered nook, after which wrestling with that lengthy piece to get it nailed again into place.
In order that’s the weekend progress! It’s actually beginning to take form now.
The underside molding (i.e., the baseboards) will wrap across the base of the tall cupboards in addition to the bottom of the washer cupboard to tie these sections collectively and end off every part alongside the ground.
I’ll even be including baseboards contained in the washer and dryer cupboard to complete off the underside of the partitions.
And also you’ll discover that I didn’t add trim to this piece within the heart part. That is going to be my glass-top earring and ring drawer, so this plywood shall be eliminated. I’m nonetheless making an attempt to find out precisely how I need this storage designed.
There are two ways in which I can do it. The primary and most blatant approach is to construct an everyday drawer that pulls out in order that I can entry my earrings and rings. The second possibility can be to construct a storage compartment that doesn’t pull out like a drawer, however as a substitute, the earrings and rings are accessed by placing the glass high on hinges that raises as much as entry these gadgets. I sort of like each concepts, so I haven’t settled on one simply but.
After all, the good thing about making it a drawer is that I can set issues on high of the glass countertop, and with it being a drawer that pulls out, these gadgets on high received’t be disturbed. If I make the glass high on hinges that raises up for accessing the earrings and rings, I received’t be capable to set something on high of that cup space. It should stay free and away from any gadgets that may block entry. However I nonetheless like the concept. So I’m going to carry off on doing something with that center part till I’ve the main points labored out. I’m virtually 100% certain that I’ll find yourself with one other shelf in that part as soon as I determine precisely how I need to retailer my necklaces there.
Anyway, it was sort of a slower weekend with me taking off on Friday, however not less than there was some progress! And I’m lastly to the enjoyable stuff!
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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