How To Trim Out Window Using Rosettes

Learn how to bulk upward the trim around your windows for a beautiful farmhouse expect! Such an easy and inexpensive upgrade!

Wow, you lot guys… what a huge difference $10 in lumber and an afternoon of painting can brand!! We only take ane tiny, niggling window in our sleeping room, so I knew from the start of this makeover that I wanted to make information technology every bit large and beautiful every bit I could. After we planked our bedroom walls this summertime, we chop-chop slapped the window trim dorsum on the wall knowing that it would come downwards once again soon anyhow. Here's what it looked like post-planking:

Pretty wearisome, correct? I think I was going for clean and mod at the fourth dimension we installed it originally, but at present it but feels bland and cheap to me. Awhile back, I saw my sugariness friend, Donna, beef upwardly the trim in her bath, and she made it look super easy. As it turns out, it really IS that easy! Using her suggestions, I turned our tiny bedroom window into an actress large, super mannerly, farmhouse-style window that kicks the pants off our previous window trim.

Here's why I honey this projection then much:
– cost less than $10 in lumber
– only took an afternoon to end
– all simple straight cuts (no mitered edges!)

I started past removing the onetime trim around the window. I tried with all my might to go the existing window sill out, merely it didn't want to budge. Later almost smashing the window with a hammer while trying to pry the darn board out, I decided it could stay and I'd work around it. Not worth the price of a new window!

Side by side, I added side trim to the window using 1 x 4 boards. I measured the distance between the window sill and the height of the window (43″) and cutting ii 1 x 4 pieces to fit. I gear up the i x 4's correct on top of the sill and secured them to the wall with my brad nailer.

Then I cut another slice of ane x iv to sit under the window sill as an apron. I fabricated this board even with the outer edge of the side trim pieces (33.5″) and nailed information technology into the wall.

I added 1″ to the apron length (34.5″) and cut a 1 x 2 to sit on meridian of the side trim pieces. I nailed this slice into the 1 x 4 sides from the top of the ane 10 2.

Next, I cut a 1 ten 6 to the same length as the apron (33.5″) and nailed it into the wall on top of the 1 x 2.

I cut another 1 x ii piece the aforementioned length as the first 1 10 2 (34.5″) and nailed information technology from the elevation into the 1 x six.

For the last lath, I added 2″ to the apron length (35.5″) and cut a 1 10 3 to that length. I ready the 1 x 3 on top of the previous 1 x 2 and toenailed it into the wall. This terminal board was too close to the ceiling for me to nail from the elevation, so I angled the brad nailer slightly to smash through the 1 x 3 and into the wall.

I wanted a prissy, large ledge at the bottom of the window, but because I couldn't remove the existing window sill, I had to improvise.

I cut a board to fit over and around the edges of the sill, calculation most another ii″ of depth and 1″ of length. I secured information technology with a nail on both ends, then toenailed information technology in from underneath.

I caulked all the seams betwixt each lath and along the wall, and then primed and painted the trim in Dove White to match our planked walls. WHAT a difference this $10 afternoon project made!!

I did have to remove and re-install the hook for our lace curtains about an inch over to the left, just that was no big deal. I merely can't become over how much more character this tiny, little window has at present. Sorry Jeremy, but I'm pretty sure we're going to take to exercise this to ALL our windows!

Soooo… what exercise you guys think of the new window trim?? What kind of trim do you lot have in your house? Does it need an upgrade? I'd love to hear your thoughts, so please leave a comment for me below!

Check out the rest of our bedroom makeover posts:
Master Chamber Makeover Plans & Before Photos
Master Bedchamber Planked Walls
Woods Axle and Lace Curtains

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