CURVE APPEAL

    I took this photo today and thought I would quickly share it.  It is beautiful to me for several reasons.

  

1. It is the only wall original to the house we kept in tact.  Donnie repaired the plaster.

2. The picture molding was missing from much of the house upon purchase back in 2011.  We replaced the lost and damaged molding throughout the house and found a fabricated rubber molding to match the wood so we were able to span this original curved wall.

3. This color (Benjamin Moore's Buxton Blue) on the walls of my future bedroom  is peaceful. 

PICTURE MOLDING

    Things are coming together.  Everything is primed, much of the trim has final coats, and colors should be going up in the next week! The fireplace brick is repaired and the picture molding is installed.  It makes me smile to have come this far. 

A CLUE! A CLUE!

    We've been playing detectives this week.  It is time for the original trim and architectural pieces to come back into the house to be re-installed and primed.  The nails were all removed back in January.  In some haste to get rolling on the demo last March and April, not all the trim was adequately marked.  Now for some pieces, like the arched door trim or the interior columns, it is obvious where they go.  Some of the trim was marked by me or the original carpenter and this too is helpful.

Far too much of the trim, however, is unmarked and of shades of peeling white.

 What it takes is matching size, cut, nail holes, and paint chips.  Sometimes there is a clue such as the hot pink paint on the sides of the entry trim.  (Thank goodness for sloppy painting.)

The hot pink on the walls of the entryway upon purchase is a clue to location of trim

Determining the placement of the columns was an easy feat.  Re-installing them required patience, muscle and skill.

Entryway left column

Entryway right column

Wallace and Donnie place the entablature above the columns

Entablature in place and ready for the capitals