Replacing Rotted Trim

I had to remove some seriously rotted trim above the north porch.

I went to the local home center to look for some 1 1/8 x 5 PVC moulding but no luck.  Then I remembered I had a bunch of virgin growth pine from my garage gut job.  Old growth pine is extremely dense, compared to modern pine, and will last forever if it's protected and maintained correctly.

After driving new nails I applied calk over the nails, seams and any other holes.

I cut a 45 degree angle on the end of the new piece to mate to the existing trim piece.  You can see the existing piece is starting to show some signs of rot and will most likely need to be replaced as well...but not today.

I painted the new prime with two coats of Bear exterior latex with primer.  I also noticed that whoever painted the house didn't do the detail work, so I went ahead and took care of it.

Looks like I'll be touching up the clap boards with some paint tomorrow.

Dinning Room

One of the very first things we did, when we moved in, was to remove the delaminating wall paper and paint the dinning room a vivid red!   Can't remember the color name off the top of my head (I'll post it later) but its a Sherwin-Williams paint-$60 per gallon!  Yikes.

New Posts coming this week!

I know its been a long while since I last posted, but I've got a ton of great stuff coming to the blog very soon. 
I've build a new front walk way, front stair case, room renovations, and more.
Also got some furniture to show off also.