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We moved into our house about 2 years ago. The back den was a horribly cold and dark area which I used to house the lawn mower for the first few months we lived here. We decided to remodel the back den and hired a guy who gave us a really lowball offer. After about a month of incessant coffee breaks and cell phone calls while his elderly father in-law actually did the work, we started to doubt the guy’s ability. When he didn’t show up for a week we fired him and I took over the project.
He had installed our new window which was actually three windows joined together in one unit. He did a very poor job of framing it out and starting on the casing, apron, etc. My wife had just wanted one thing out of the room and that was a nice craftsman style casing around the window. So I removed most of his bad work and surprised myself by producing the project you see above.
It was a great first project….(any project which allows me to buy a new table saw and router is a great project!!) I took many trips to the lumber yard to find materials. Most of it is 1 inch white pine. The apron on the bottom is actually faked out…it’s just a piece of molding because I cut the stool a bit too shallow. That’s why you see that thin banding under the stool…it’s hiding the fact that the apron is rounded on both edges. :-)
The header on top was assembled on the ground….it’s a 10 foot 1×10 with crown molding glued and nailed along the top and a thin 1 inch wide strip of molding glued and nailed to the bottom. Then it was lifted into place on top of the stiles.
I really wish the pieces were all completely flush and that I could have gotten the stool to actually be level…things that only I will ever notice, I’m sure.
The whole thing was coated in one coat of polyeurethane….in these pictures it is raw.
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posted 334 days ago
Scott,
It looks good to me! Any project that gets you 2 major tools has got to be a great project!
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John Stegall
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posted 334 days ago
You did a very good job, and you are right, only you will know where the flaws are unless you tell others.
DAHIKT (don’t ask how I know that)
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Douglas Bordner
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posted 334 days ago
If my wife sees this I’m sunk.
You did a superb job!
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
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posted 333 days ago
Beautiful! – A very cleaver use of the window design. I always admire someones ability to create a look that flows as well as your design. But be warned…it always starts out with a little table saw & router…;) Very nice work!, I look forward to seeing your next project.
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roman
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posted 333 days ago
very well done, looks fantastic
You might kick yourself for not finishing the drywall, mudding, sanding and painting before trim applications as doing this before you trimmed the window is easy but now…........a PITA
that said…...............window looks great
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LIdink
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posted 316 days ago
Really nice work. I’d like to do the same thing in my kitchen.
Are the top header and side casings same dimensions? Or, is the top header slighly larger to compensate for the amount that the crown molding will cover up? Thanks
bensaw
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posted 314 days ago
The top casing is indeed a wider piece. For the side casing I actually found a molding at my local lumberyard with both edges already rounded….saved some time and the thinner profile looked a little better than a 1 inch piece of stock.
Let me measure for you…
The side casings measure about 4.25 inch width
The top is a piece of 1 inch which is 5.75 inches…the crown molding is attached to the face with tapered support blocks glued behind it.
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posted 308 days ago
Thanks for the response and details that you provided. It was very helpful. I wasn’t able to find that much in the ways of dimensions and so forth online so it’s really much appreciated.
Well, I’ve completed my project and will upload a couple of pics soon. I look forward to receiving some feedback as this is my first attempt at craftsman style trim.