The last detail needed to finish off the wood beams was the crown molding. This is the part that would take the most time since there were 3 separate ceiling “boxes” to do instead of just the 4 walls around the room. Mace hadn’t done a lot of crown at this point, just the crown molding in our master bedroom, so he was about to get A LOT of experience to perfect his crown molding coping skills. When you cope crown molding its to make the inside corners line up perfectly and look seamless. It takes time and practice to perfect but makes the finished product look great! There were at least 12 inside corners to do in our basement so it was a time consuming part of the project.
Here’s a shot of some of the crown being installed. As usual I was a great help holding it up and being an extra set of hands when needed.
Many cuts and a few weeks later, all the crown was up and looking beautiful! The room was feeling so much more finished. This detail definitely was making the room look more like a living room and less like a basement.
We had lots of other trim going up to help finish off the space. Here the base was added to the bottom of the support posts (leaving room for carpet to be installed).
Here is the casing being installed around the new slider along with the new closet door frame being installed.
After all the crown, casing, trim, and base were installed there was still a lot of wood putty and sanding nail holes that still had to happen. I was also getting the slider and new doors painted and those long pieces in the second pic are the trim for the pocket door which also needed paint.
And don’t forget all the joints and seams needed to be caulked. You can see in this pic I had primed and gotten the first coat of paint on the beams.
And here are some finished shots of the beams and all the crown painted. We also got the new HVAC vents installed and wired up the TV for speakers. To do all these smaller projects took about 7 weeks.
We also spruced up the existing baseboard heater by removing rust and giving it a fresh coat of paint.
You can see them freshly painted in the back ground and Mace is also working on an end piece while my father-in-law Bob watched him work. He was living with us at the time and was always saying how impressed he was with what we were getting done but that we should sit down and take a break. Today would have been his 70th birthday and we miss his light-hearted and warm personality every day.
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