White on white on white

Urgh.

We're so close. So very close.

But oh. my. god. The freaking trim. The trim, the trim, that terrible trim.

Cut the trim. Dado the trim. Fasten the trim. Fill the holes in the trim. Sand the trim. Caulk the trim. Tape the trim. Paint the trim. Paint the trim. Remove the tape, and touch up the wall around the trim.

Rinse.

Repeat.

Urgh.

I guess the good news is that I won't be doing a whole lot of the old before-and-after pictures in this post. The difference between one coat of white paint and two coats of white paint might make all the difference in the world when it's live and in person, but it doesn't show up at all on camera - not even MY awesome camera.

(Did I mention I got it cleaned and it's all shiny-like-new-like?)

The bad news, I suppose, would be that there are a whole lot of pictures of, well, white paint. But if I have to suffer through putting the crap on, you have to suffer through looking at it. (Trust me, you're really getting the better end of that deal.)

Anyway, when last we left off (besides the pie, obviously - which I should also hasten to point out that I did not make), we'd just finished hanging the door between the office and the laundry room, and built and installed the bookcase. So, for starters, here's the bookcase with not one, not two, but FOUR coats of paint on it:



Here are some of the baseboards, which have all been cut, attached, filled, and painted (except for a couple in the back of the closet that need a little more sanding):



And the trim around the closet:



And the doors that will eventually go in the closet:



And, lest you think the laundry room isn't getting any love, we also put up the trim on the laundry-room side of the office door:




So we had one last little bit of construction-type work left (uh, I think it's the last bit of construction-type work) and that was to build a new casing for the old, battered office door and hang it in the doorway between the laundry room and the workshop. This doorway, in fact:



Of course, we originally made this plan back when we thought it would be cool to keep at least part of the original house, and before we realized that setting the old door on fire and buying a new one would be a lot less hassle at this stage of the game, but that's renovations for you! Ha ha! Please kill me.

Anyway, here's the old battered door itself, patiently awaiting our attention:



And here it is with a new casing:



Woo!

Here it is hanging in the doorway!



Woo woo!

And, of course, (oh, you KNEW this was coming, didn't you?) here is it after we took it down and replaced the hinges, routered out the casing properly, and rehung it in the opening:



Sigh. Just once. ONCE. That's all I ask. But hey, check it out - now it CLOSES:



Pretty sweet, eh?