Trim Paint: Second Look

Painting trim is painstaking work. You only put on a few tablespoons of paint put it seems to take forever. I now have one coat on everything but the skirting. Tomorrow I hope to get a second coat on the trim I painted today. After that I have the skirting, door, and screen door. There is also the frieze and soffit way, way, way up at the top of the house, but I’ll discuss that another day.



I decided to keep the red on the sashes. After I got the rest of the casing and jambs painted I decided it didn’t look too bad. Also, the second story window sashes are in such bad shape I can’t see any point in putting more paint on them. These windows are by far the worst in the house. They have been beat by a southern sun for 111 years. The window sills on those two second story windows are the only ones that are not original to the house. When I bought the place they had already been replaced with two chunks of pressure treated wood (Ugly!). I replaced them again with redwood when I restored all the window sills 2 years ago with the crown molding.

Here’s a couple of close-ups. Most of the trim only has one coat of paint on it so it should look a little better tomorrow after a second coat. I painted the water table and the crown molding just under the flare with SW Fired Brick in satin latex. There is still a lot of work to be done. The goal is to be finished by Wednesday. That will be 3 weeks exactly for this section.