Yup, we got a bit trim. As you checked out in last week’s Day In The Life post, we just recently dealt with the add-trim-to-the-hooter-and-the-hotter-office-desk project. The fundamental game plan was to add some easy baseboard or molding to the bottom of our cupboards so they looked much more like built-ins. In other words, the bottoms were looking a bit unfinished…
I took measurements as well as headed off to the store with my bit cheat sheet. notice exactly how I mark which method my cuts go? When I’m making angled miter cuts I’m so anxious about cutting the wrong method that I leave myself as numerous reminders as possible.
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One extremely crucial measurement, not shown here, was the trim height. We had less than 3″ of distance between the floor as well as the cupboard doors, so conventional baseboard wasn’t gonna work. I really ended up (dramatically) bringing house trim that was extremely similar (actually, perhaps exact) to what we utilized around our restroom mirror. overall expense for three 8ft pieces = $14.
I determined my pieces as well as once again left reminders about what angle my cuts needed to be…
…so that even at the last second I might make sure I didn’t have my blade or trim piece in backwards or something.
I inspected each piece as I cut it just to make sure the lengths as well as angles were right.
After whatever seemed to be lining up, it was time for the nailing part of the day’s festivities. I hammered the little completing nails in many of the method with my hammer, then completed it off with my nail punch (which assists get the nail set into the trim somewhat without banging up the surrounding wood).
Of program the edges weren’t 100% perfect, however that’s what a bit of caulk is for (just scrubed into the edge with a finger). It’s likewise great for hiding those somewhat sunk nail heads (thanks to the nail punch). though we really haven’t done either of those things yet. Oops. Soon…
I put two or three nails in each piece of trim, protecting it to the cupboard – not the floor – as well as was performed in practically no time. If the white of the trim weren’t so darned close to the white of the cupboards already, we’d most likely have painted them immediately. however they really look fantastic as they are (so we plan to paint them when we caulk stuff, just to surface things off).
What wasn’t looking so fantastic was the mess of cords in these pictures. We’ve just kind of been ignoring them as much as this point, however after taking the picture above we all of a sudden realized that they were destroying the completed look of our new trim. So we chose to lastly do something about it.
Sherry’s side was simple since she only has two plugs in one little power strip (her computer as well as lamp – although for some reason her lamp wasn’t plugged in for the photo below). The outlet is hidden behind the desk, so we believed ahead as well as plugged the power strip in before completing the desk. fortunately I was able to just tuck her strip out of sight behind the cupboard because there’s a smidge of area to enable for the plug (there’s no area between the countertop as well as the wall, so it looks 100% seamless from above – you only see that little fracture where the cabs don’t sit best against the wall if you’re on your knees under the desk). Oh as well as disregard the raw bottom of the countertop in all of these photos (it’s likewise not seen except by somebody who is Burger’s height, however we’ll most likely do something about it someday since we’re anal).
My side was a bit crazier, because I had a larger power strip (from our old office set-up), much more plugs (computer, phone, outside difficult drive, etc) as well as that huge honking wireless FiOS router. Behold the hot mess:
Since tucking it away like Sherry’s side wasn’t an choice (stuff was method as well bulky to slide behind the cabinets), I opted to hang the power strip on the wall best under the counter, that method it’d be practically out of sight. The power strip already had notches for screws on the back, so I just utilized a homemade guide to make sure I drilled my holes in the best spots.
In situation the picture isn’t self explanatory enough, my fundamental system was:
I taped a piece of paper to the back of the strip as well as poked holes with the paper with a red pen, marking the notches.
I then held the strip where I desired it on the wall as well as taped the paper to the wall
When I carefully pulled the strip away, it un-taped itself as well as left me with two red guide dots
I just drilled best with the paper so I had completely put holes for my anchors as well as screws
Then I hung the strip on the wall as well as plugged whatever back in (and slid the router behind the cabinet)
Still looks a bit untidy in the picture above, however when you stand back to look at the whole space it’s not extremely visible at all. So your eyes can just concentrate on the freshly added trim instead. Note: of program we still have to hang art as well as window treatments as well as add bright lamps/shades as well as rearrange tons of desk stuff, so other than the recently completed desk there’s not much about this space that’s done.
Just as a reminder, here’s what the space appeared like without the added trim as well as cord organization. We believe it was well worth $14 for the additional polish that it adds:
Oh as well as here’s what the space appeared like best after we moved in nine months ago, just for some way-back-when reminiscing:
This space in general has truly come along in the last month or so. Which is good because we spend so much time in there.
Oh, as well as I had when talked about trying to add some trim to the side edges (where they practically satisfy the wall) to total the look, however Sherry as well as I had about fifteen pow-wows on the subject as well as lastly chose it wasn’t worth the difficulty (to make it look really flush I’d have to do great deals of cutting around the baseboard as well as that didn’t noise like much fun – as well as doing it half-heartedly would most likely just make it look worse). So when we caulk those recently added trim corners as well as nailheads, I believe we’re quite much calling this desk job D-O-N-E. Here’s exactly how much we spent in overall on our 13 foot long wall-to-wall double desk:
Cabinets (from habitat For Humanity ReStore): $6.30
Kilz clean begin No-VOC Primer: $0 (leftover from painting the kitchen area paneling, however it would be around $20 to purchase for those wondering)
Electric sander & sandpaper: $0 (already owned, however would be around $25 to buy)
Benjamin Moore advancement paint (in Decorators White, satin): $40 (thanks to 10% off haggling/begging)
Pre-primed & unprimed wood to develop up cupboards (from house Depot): $51
Framing lumber for counter (from house Depot): $27.30
Stain & poly for top: $0 (already owned, however would be about $8 as well as $20 respectively if you didn’t have any)
Drillbit for tiring cord holes in counter: $4 (from Lowe’s)
Trim for bottom: $14 (from Lowe’s)
TOTAL: $142.60
Not surprisingly, our interest has already moved on to one more job in the office as well as we CAN’T wait to share it with you. lets just state that Sherry’s epically sore, there’s paint in her hair, as well as she’s nowhere near done. much more details (and pics) tomorrow for sure. up until then, have any type of of you men added trim to make something look much more built-in. Or introduced a full-scale cord organization? tell me about it.
Psst- To inspect out our entire desk building experience from begin to finish, here’s the publish about planning the design of the room, here’s the publish about purchasing the cabinets, here’s the publish about other cupboard research study we did, here’s the publish about sanding/priming the cabinets, here’s the publish about building them as much as desk-height as well as painting them, here’s the publish about building as well as discoloring the counter, as well as here’s the publish about drilling cord holes into the counter.
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