Baseboard

The baseboard was the next project. None of the house had baseboard (except the bathroom but it is the most awful blue!!) so we got to choose all new stuff. The bedroom baseboard had a simple, yet awesome design to it. And the baseboard for the living room and hallway we used just straight boards (I think they were 1 by 5s). It took like a million coats of paint to get them to match the wall color!!

In the spare bedroom, where the carpet meets the wood, there is quite a down step. It seemed to be a challenge with the baseboard, but I think Jered handled it just great. This picture is before we filled the nail holes and stuff, so it looks even better now!We liked the baseboard in the bedroom so much, we just bought some more to use in the spare bedroom. That will be a whole other project.....

Below is in the main bedroom.

This corner is right outside the bedroom in the hallway.

Below is coming out of the hallway into the living room.

This is the straight board toward the front door.

This is the same hallway one that goes into the living room. The wood trim goes around the hearth. The bottom of the hearth had a gap on the bottom (so it would have been even with the couple of layers of carpet that once resided in here), so we put some quarter-round around the bottom. It worked out okay, we are a little disappointed that it didn't match the floors better.

I am very proud of this project, even though I didn't do much myself after the painting. I love how it really brings the house together, I really had no idea how much it would until now. Now that all of the walls are painted and the baseboard is done, it will be easier to move more stuff in permanent positions.

Another project off the list......onto the spare bedroom!