Chair Rail & Baseboards

   My Dad and I spent the better part of 4 weeks getting the staining done for the chair rail.  Lots of trips to Home Depot, and many sample stains later we're finally satisfied with the color match.

   

   We had ripped out the previous owners baseboards (they were huge and made the rooms look smaller), so this is the first time we've really seen rooms with all the proper moldings, chair rails, and baseboards up.  It's a wonderful thing when things finally start coming together. :)

You can see Johnny worked day and night on this project.  Of course the staining took forever, but the cutting moldings and baseboards to fit smoothly together is NOT an easy task either.

Final product, this picture is of the Parlor.  The baseboards in the other rooms of the house were painted to match the color of the rooms trim. 

First Week ~ The Interior Paint

      The colors of the inside parlor and great hall were all this rose/pink color (see bottom portion in the picture above).  Not only were all the walls this color, but the ceiling as well!  Mary and I spent days tapping off the wood stained trim, and partitioned the walls into a tri-color scheme Missy had chosen before hand.  Using Behr Ultra paints, we went with Cottage White for the upper portions including ceiling, Quiet Veranda (soft yellow) for the middle, and from Martha Stwart Collection, Feather Duster (greenish/gray) for the bottom.  We loved how it turned out.

We did rip out all the old (not original) baseboards.  They were too thick and seemed to make the room look smaller to us.  So finding new baseboards and then stain-matching is yet another project added to the list.