#Installing window trim molding install#
#Installing window trim molding windows#

To get the craftsman style window trim around your windows, youвЂ™ll first remove existing trim from windows, including side and overhead trim as well as sill and trim board under sill. Our walls are painted in sherwin williams accessible beige.

#Installing window trim molding windows#

Farmhouse trim around windows HereвЂ™s a shot of one of the first renovation projects we did, our shiplap fireplace in our living room, complete with new craftsman style trim around the windows. If your trimwork is highly detailed or has wavy profiles to it, then you may want to choose a base with base cap, which comes already on some baseboards but can be purchased separately and added atop a simple 1 x 6 board. Because all of our mouldings now have square edges and flat surfaces, we matched our baseboards to this look. When selecting your baseboard material, take into consideration the other trim in your house. Please note, we did not use MDF board for any of these projects instead used real wood. We went with 1 x 6 Primed fingerjoint boards for our base (actual measurement of a 1 x 6 is ВѕвЂќ x 5.5вЂќ). ThereвЂ™s nothing worse than undersized baseboards. We finished the look with our favorite farmhouse door handles and added board and batten.ДЄs a general aesthetic rule of thumb, you typically need your baseboard height to be greater than your door and window trim widths by at least 50 percent, but not more than 100 percent.ДЇor example, if your door casing trim is 3.5вЂќ like ours, youвЂ™d want your baseboards to be at least 5.25вЂќ for the baseboards to look substantial enough.

#Installing window trim molding install#

Steps to install farmhouse baseboard Modern farmhouse baseboard installed in our daughterвЂ™s room. I cannot tell you how much of a difference the taller, thicker baseboards and door trim madeвЂ“it completely transformed our home.ДЄll of our craftsman style trim is painted in benjamin moore white dove. One of the first things I demoed was our fireplace and while I was doing that, I decided just to rip out the baseboards and door trim too. When we moved in to our home, the baseboards were pretty short, run-of-the-mill design you see on most spec homes. If youвЂ™d like to add craftsman style trim to your home, hereвЂ™s the exact process we followed for our doors, windows and baseboards. When I use the term farmhouse trim, know that itвЂ™s pretty much synonymous with craftsman style trim in terms of the overall look and feel. We started with farmhouse baseboards, then replaced all the doors for more of a craftsman style and trimmed those out using a farmhouse door trim and finally, weвЂ™re replacing our 30 year old windows and wrapping those with trim, too. WeвЂ™re slowly transforming our 90s builder-grade home into a modern farmhouse, and one of the first things we did was add farmhouse trim to our home.