We decided to go with unstained oak trim and doors so that they would match the kitchen cabinets
in the house. We also wanted the company that we would purchase the trim and doors from
to pre-hang the doors and put the finish trim on one side of the doors. This would save
us a considerable amount of time for only a little more cost. This required the
company to come out to the house and measure each door in order for the doors to fit
in the door frame once they were assembled at the plant. We also decided to have the
company assemble all of the trim that will go around the windows so that we did not
have to cut and assemble them ourselves. The joints come out much nicer when done at
the plant and the wood color tends to match closer than if you were assembling the frame
from four different pieces of trim.
Here is the wood trim and doors as they arrived.
In order to pass the final inspection, we had to have doors on all of the bathrooms, so
we knew that we had to install at least those doors. The contractor that installed the
outside doors and windows also installed the interior doors with some help from Margaret.
The doors that we needed to install went so well that they continued and installed all of
the doors in the house in about a day.
Here are some of the wood doors with trim around them.
About a week later the contractor and myself went through and installed all of the bi-fold
closet doors. So in approximately two to three days we had all of the doors with trim on
both sides installed in the entire house.
Here are some of the bi-fold closet doors.
All of the stairs had to have a handrail installed. None of the stairs could not have a side
that was open if the distance from the floor to the stair tread was greater than 26".
Here is the hand railing for the basement stairs.
For the lower part of the 1st floor stairs, a cage/railing had to be built. Using 3/4"
dowels, we created a railing that went from the stair treads to the ceiling.
Here are the lower part of the 1st stairs with the finished stairrail.