I constructed my house thirty years ago. I started framing walls in April of the year and by early November I was nailing all the finishing trim into place.
When I first started trimming
around the windows and doors, I enlisted the help of one of my carpenter
friends for a day.
While working with me, he made
an observation that sticks with me to this day.
“I am happy to see you are getting everything done before moving in,” he
told me. “I have watched a lot of people
build their own houses. I have noticed
that if they move in before getting everything done, whatever was unfinished
remains unfinished after they move in. They
never get to it.”
Funny thing about that—I finished
everything in my house save the trim around one set of bifold closet doors at
the entry from my garage. I vowed to buck
the trend noted by my friend and finish the closet after we moved in.
Thirty years later, the closet
remains unfinished.
Untrimmed Closet
—Mitchell
Hegman
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