When building our house in 1991, we opted for a wallpaper border around the top of the walls in the bathroom off our bedroom. For the past two weeks, Desiree and I have been working to install trim boards over the wallpaper border. The boards are locally sourced, rough-sawn, ten-inch-wide fir siding planks. We had to sand the planks down and stain them before cutting them and nailing them in place.
Every board has been a struggle,
given the wild nature of the wood. Few of them lie flat. Most are slightly
cupped, and sections with knots tend to be warped out of shape. From the
outset, I assumed the longest board—a thirteen-foot-long beast—would be the
most difficult. I could not have been more wrong. The biggest battle turned out
to be the smallest board, one a mere five inches long. Between the two
imperfect adjoining boards, the irregularities in the drywall finish, and
making the “live” sides meet at the bottom of the trim, I needed to make four
custom angle cuts and heavily sand the live edge.
It took me three attempts and three
hours to finally get the five-inch board to fit properly.
I’ve posted photographs of my work.
You can see the smallest board finally nailed in place at the upper-right
outside corner in the last image I posted.
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—Mitchell Hegman
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