Walk-In Closet Progress – Adding Trim To The Cabinet Closets

After ending the fundamental construct on this closet, that is what the cupboards seemed like…

And since it’s the facet that requires probably the most trim, I made a decision to begin to begin trimming out the proper facet of the room first.

Right here’s what that facet of the room appears to be like like now with all the 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 facet, 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 means 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 prime and backside horizontal items in place, I then hooked up the lengthy vertical items. I nailed all the 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 facet of the middle part. However earlier than attaching these, I used my desk noticed to tear them down to three.25″ extensive in order that they only coated the perimeters of the plywood containers in addition to the ends of the shelf helps.

And at last, 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 course…

I did all the wooden filling as I went, and in the event you’ve been round for some time, you already know that I take advantage of wooden filler very liberally. I do that for 2 causes. First, wooden filler shrinks because it dries. So in the event you attempt to put it on completely easy, 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 form of mounding it up on the joints and screw holes/nail holes. But in addition, I take advantage of my rotary sander to sand all of this easy as soon as it’s dry, so my sander makes very fast work of eradicating all the extra and making these joints and nail holes/screw holes very easy.

So I ended my weekend by ensuring that every one of these joints, nail holes, and screw holes had been full of wooden filler.

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 prime of the shelf and kind a 90-degree nook. These areas will probably be caulked.

However I did use wooden filler the place the trim and the plywood shelf meet on prime of the cabinets as a result of that may be simply sanded with my rotary sander and go away a wonderfully easy transition between the 2 items.

I’ll wait till the opposite facet is trimmed out and the wooden filler has had time to dry on that facet earlier than I begin sanding in order that I can do it all of sudden. So that is the place I left issues final night time. I additionally didn’t do any wooden filling on the washer cupboard as a result of I nonetheless have to take away that prime 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 easy. After which I piled on the wooden filler to fill in between the items. After 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 a complete lot simpler than eradicating your complete 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 thing alongside the ground.

I’ll even be including baseboards contained in the washer and dryer cupboard to complete off the underside of the partitions.

Anyway, it was form 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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