I Suck At Installing Molding

saturday was a very low key day.

with the dreadful weather outside, karen and i decided to work on the house. it's been quite a while since either karen or i worked on the house. before my son (braden michael) was born, i had cut a bunch of molding to fit our windows on the second floor. i had pre-stained them, stained them, applied polyurethane twice... i just never got around to waxing them because braden was born. yes, i suck at installing molding.

the molding sat unfinished in the garage for quite some time. so saturday, in our quest for normalcy, we attempted to install some molding and add curtains to the windows in the hallway... to at least finish what we started.

(pictured below are the two windows in the hallway that now have molding and curtains on them.)


karen, of course, thinks i'm crazy because i wanted to manually install the molding with a hammer and nail... and not use a nail gun. i have nothing against nail guns. i love nail guns because they make projects easier. i simply felt that things were sturdier back in the day when people used hammers and nails... a true sign that i am getting old because i used the term "back in the day".

plus, because i'm ridiculously anal... the windows in our bedroom were installed with a hammer, so i wanted to make things uniform...

anyway, we still have more windows to finish on the second floor, but at least our house looks more and more like a home...

I Suck At Installing Molding

come to think of it, i forgot another thing... (i'm going to be in such rough shape when i become a senior citizen. i probably won't even remember who i am.)

anyway, last night i did some work on my bff's (kerry) room. well, i suppose it's kerry's room up until the baby comes... and once the baby is born, kerry may have to resort to the couch unless karen is really adamant about splitting the room in half, in which kerry's room will only be half its current size.

i've been working on installing the trim around the windows in kerry's room. unfortunately, like most home improvement projects... i suck at installing molding.

(pictured below are the new casings around the windows of kerry's room.)


i hate installing molding. both karen and i like the natural wood look (instead of paint). unfortunately, the natural wood look makes the process of installing molding that much longer because you have to sand the wood, pre-stain it, stain it, apply polyurethane to it... twice..., apply wax, and then nail the pieces in. it's definitely a long process, but it's worth it in the long run.

anyway, kerry's room is finished in terms of window molding. the room still has the base molding to go, but we'll see what happens with that as the molding depends partially on whether or not we decide to cut the room in half.

out of sheer laziness, i am leaning toward leaving the room as is. we'll see how that goes...