Project House: Wood Trim and Various Matters

Wood Trim and Various Matters

So, very exciting news! We have a move in date. (pretty much) The weekend of March 15th! In the meantime we have a TON of work to get done.

I don't know if you all remember that large pile of reclaimed beams that we had, well they have been put to use. They are the inside trim of our house. It took quite a while however to get it all ready to go.

Curt we very excited to get to use some sort of machinery to move the pile onto a large rental truck.
I think he played with it a bit to much.

Then he took it over to a portable mill that was down the road a bit.

Then the miller and Curt went to town cutting them all up into boards that we could use. This is really old wood from a building that burned down several years ago that Curt was able to scavenge part of the sub-floor from. So the beams were about 100 years old or more. Clear virgin fir. It makes for some really pretty trim that we could otherwise not have afforded to put into the house.

By the time they were done, we ended up with a small truckload of wood! But then it had to be planed and sanded and finished....UGH.

Curt ended up spending 3-4 weekends just sanding and cutting wood. It took FOREVER!

My job was fairly easy, I just had to put about 3 - 4 coats of finish on all of it. You can see how it makes it look very nice though.

We had a couple pieces where the knots had fallen out, but Curt found some filler wood for it. :)

And then Caleb, spend a couple weeks putting it all up. All over the windows and the soffit.

It really does look very nice and makes it look like it's finished inside finally.

You can also see that the cabinets have started to go in. They are not quite done yet, but I'll have a post soon with the finishes of that.

Curt also had to spend a few days grinding the hearth of the fire place. We had the mason but the wrong finish on it.