Doing the ceiling trim was an exercise in trigonometry.
The trim is installed where the ceiling meets the walls providing a nice clean aesthetic at those transitions. Simple 90-degree and 45-degree cuts if your room is a box. But, our ceiling is angled as it’s installed direct to the rafters and mimics the roof pitch. That meant lots of angles to figure out with multiple angled cuts on each trim piece! Not only the ends of the boards where each piece of trim met another piece of trim in the corners, but also the backs of the trim pieces that would run along the long walls because of that angled ceiling.
And, cause we’re us, instead of just buying pre-made quarter round trim pieces, we had to make our own… I mean, we already had spare wood lying around from the excess wall boards, so why not? Besides, this way we knew the trim would match the ceiling and wall boards really well!
Unfortunately, no photos of the initial cutting of these thin pieces from our long tongue and groove pine boards–it took two of us to hold and feed the boards as we ran them along the table saw. After a few loses (some boards unexpectedly produced really curved pieces when cut so thinly, which weren’t usable, and a knot in the wrong place would lead to a trim piece that would break apart), we then ran them along the router to give the one corner a round-over that produces a quarter round. I also forgot to get shots of us using the router to round them over. Once they were all cut and formed, it was on to sanding, finishing, sanding, finishing,… you know the drill. We then cut them roughly to size.
We then moved from the shop to the tiny house for installation, and brought along the chop saw for making the final exact angled cuts to the trim ends. We cut a few small tester pieces so we could check the angles in place and make sure they aligned snugly. Then, we cut the ends of the actual trim pieces and installed with pin nails. I swear, I really was working on all this, too, and not just behind the camera–I gotta get Eli to take more of the pictures…
As we worked, our foreman kitty had to survey our progress and assess future trim needs around the windows.
While we were doing the ceiling trim, we also added some more trim around the roof window. If you recall, we had covered the rafters with trim pieces, but we hadn’t yet installed the trim to hide all the seams. I must not have been in photographer mode during that bit, because I only have one photo of us working on the roof window trim. We still have a few little bits to go in the corners of the window bay, but it comes along!
Once we had the trim installed, I went along each trim piece and covered up the pin nails with just a smidge of wood putty. This hides the nail and makes the nail holes blend in with the surrounding wood for a much cleaner look. While I put the finishing touches on the trim, Eli swept up the sawdust from using the tiny house as a shop space.
So much more trim to go (wall corners, loft/floor transitions, windows), but ceiling trim is complete! Hygge Hale with one more element in place! At least we can look up and see a final product!
Looks fantastic! A long tedious job, but you all did well.
Keep up the nice work. It is amazing that no water leaked in during the torrential
down doors. Water will fined any outlet or crevice but you did a tremendous job and there were no leaks. Demonstrates what master craftsmen you both are.
Love, Dad