[383Ram]

Man, that is alot of work, but i'll say it again. It looks friggin' great!!!!!

Back when you did the laundry room you said you used caulk for the trim. I don't know if its wrong either, but thats what i did for the crown moulding in a hallway i did over. I hope you got the paintable kind though. I caulked all the seems and joints and then painted everything. Its quick and easy, but i almost think maybe next time i will just put filler and a quick sanding over the nail heads as i think it will look cleaner. The only other thing i noticed as i did the trim last May, is now being dry weather here in NY, the wood has obviosly srunk a bit and some of my seems/joints opened back up a bit. I really should recaulk those before it swells back up in the spring.

I also noticed you used a "test" piece for the corners to test the fit. I always have a few "test pieces around so i can set the saw up to get that perfect angle----cause as we all know, no walls are perfectly straight and true with perfect 90 degree corners.

I learned from a friend a long time ago, deception to the eye comes in big time when playing with walls and trim. The above mentioned hallway i did over is no where near straight because its new sheetrock on 120 year old walls. I had an outside corner that was so far out of wack that i had to do multiple days of layering in caulk because after the trim was up i had a pretty large gap between the the bottom of the crown and the wall (about an 1/8"). But to look at it now all filled and painted in, you dont really notice it---unless your me who put it up, but no one has ever picked up on it just looking at it.