By Remodelaholic
If you wanna read about our current project click here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Rugs, and Sofas.
UPDATE: Click here to see the tutorial and building plan for making your own interior columns!
Teaser pic…
When deciding how to go about this, I first had to figure out the cost, and so I have to show you our rather comically colored sketches that define or call out all the different moldings etc:
>Ooh ooh! It's coming together and looking so good!
>It's looking great! 🙂 As soon as some warmer weather hits, I have some huge projects coming up…can't wait to start on them all!
have a great week!
Missy
>I totally know what you mean about inconvienent located switches. Personally, I think you did the proper thing building out the light switches, but I probably would have relocated the outlet on the back of the kitchen to the center of one of the panels. Otherwise GREAT WORK!
>Hey Eric,
I am not sure which switch you are talking about?.. is it the one by the back door?
That is the light switch to the back porch so it needed to stay by the back door, actually it is annoyingly on the wrong side of the door and a little out of reach to begin with so moving it would have been even worse.
But it had been a double switch, with the other one turning on the light in the dining room and so we did move that one to the other side of the column on the kitchen side into the center of the panel. It looks nice and clean and the switches all fit perfectly.
As I looked at your sketches and work on the arches and wainscoting, I was “wowing” you. Then it made sense. You are an interior designer. Crafting, I too, love crafts. My sweet daughter put it mildly one day (she is 25), “My mom can fix anything”. I do all kinds of things from building with wood, etching glass, sewing, working in the barn with horses, you name it. I would love to tackle the arches though in our dining room which is locaed in the center of our house. I’ve thought about it for a long time. My daughter and her husband have been battling infertility for a couple of years now and it is heartbreaking. She will be doing another IVF transfer this month on the 22nd. I am just rambling, but I like how you too procrastinate. My husband teases that I am starting another project that I won’t finish. I try to show him and work FT too. Sheesh. It was great meeting you. Love your work!
Nice meeting you, too, Mary! 🙂
>Oh my gosh this looks so fabulous already! Love all the architectural details you are adding. And very impressive that you are doing this all at 8.5 months pregnant! 🙂
>Wow! I can't wait to see it finished. Love it already!
>This is gorgeous…I lurve me some detailed trim work! Can't wait to see it all finished and I bet you can't either…hehehe.
>Wow. Love it. I've got two rooms painted 2/3 white waiting for their B&B trim and you may have just inspired me to get my rear in gear! It looks fantastic!
>It looks great! I can't wait to see the finished product. By the way, I looked like that at about 3 months pregnant, you look fantastic.
>Can I rent you and your husband to come do that at my house? I will watch the kids. 😉 Great job. Love your blog and this is an idea I may have to put to use when we redo our kitchen. Keep up the good work.
>I just came across your site and this post was just what I have been thinking about for our home. I have always wanted to do this to our columns, but couldn't quite figure how.
We have trim on the way up our stairs, and it can't be 3/4" thick MDF, it is some other type of material… thinner, but smooth white. Must be just flat paneling. Have no idea what it's called, but the mitering of the panels around makes perfect sense. Thanks for the post.
>Ok I'm totally blog stalking you! I don't know how you have time to post on multiple blogs I can't even keep up with one lol! Congrats on the new baby girl she is beautiful! We live in the Kelller area too so any time you want to drop in and help us with our DIY projects that's fine by me:-)
We are doing this same project in our house separating our kitchen and living. I googled it and came across you blog and I love it! Thanks for posting a step by step it's really helpful!
I'm a new loyal follower :-)))
This reminds me classical designs of houses. Can’t wait for the result. 🙂
Awesome details. Thanx so much for sharing!
I just found your blog (via Pink Toes and Power Tools)..great work guys. You make a great team. I love all of the architectural details that you add and still manage to make it look relatively easy.(but I know it’s alot of hard work) I have similar arches in our Cape Cod style home and may have to steal your shaker column idea..they look great. I’m going to be adding Wainscoting to my DR as well, but my question to you is, did you cover your wall texture where the “panels” are, or did you just paint them white? It’s kind of hard to get that much detail from the pics, but I also have textured plaster walls and wonder how they would look? Keep up the great work! Mike
Mike,
We didn’t cover the texture and it is my biggest regret! PLEASE COVER THE TEXTURE! It looked like we put moldings on a wall, not like a properly built wainscoting. You can use a cheap 1/8th inch press board glued to the wall and it would do the trick perfectly.
Thanks for the advice!
You are welcome! Good luck with your project!
Hi there. My husband and I have fallen in love with your work here. We are trying to be realistic of the monitary cost for something like this. Would you be comfortable sharing your experience in this area?
Cassi, we are thrilled that you love it. We do too. Cassity and I did all of the work so that saved us a ton of money. I that it was around $500 in materials. We purchased sheets of MDF and cut them in to strips for the moldings. That saved a lot of money but took a lot of time. It was worth it though. If you had someone do it for you it could cost a couple thousand I am sure. I hope that helps. Thanks for reading our blog. We hope that you come back.
Love this project! Questions on the wainscoting… What is the height and do you have a tutorial on how you finished off the top?
Debbie, I don’t live there anymore and don’t have exact measurements, and no tutorials at this time for this particular room, but if you search wainscoting I have TONS of tutorials on the site.
Loving these columns. Not sure if you are still without autocad, but you should try sketchup, you can do a lot with the free version.
Yes, we have discovered and use SketchUp since we first did these plans. Thanks for the tip and the love! 🙂