I was standing in my hallway, staring at a gap between my brand-new luxury vinyl and the bottom of my baseboards that was wide enough to hide a roll of pennies. I’d just finished a long weekend of flooring installation,…
I remember standing in my hallway back in 2018, surrounded by expensive scraps of primed MDF and feeling like a total failure. I had a brand-new miter saw, a laser level, and a math degree’s worth of angles calculated, yet…
It was 2 AM, and I was staring at a six-inch gap where my brand-new baseboard refused to touch the floor. I had spent two days pouring self-leveler until that subfloor was as flat as a frozen lake, yet here…
I remember standing in my living room, brand new MDF trim in hand, staring at a gap so wide I could have slid a deck of cards right through it. I’d just finished an ambitious project following a step-by-step flooring…
I stood there, staring at my brand-new 12-foot ceilings, feeling like a total amateur. I’d just finished a massive renovation and, in my excitement, I’d grabbed a bundle of standard 3.25-inch baseboards from the local big-box store. I nailed one…
There I was, standing in front of a beautiful, rugged fieldstone hearth, holding a pristine piece of white baseboard that cost me forty bucks. I pushed it against the stone, and my heart sank. The gaps were so big I…
I remember the exact moment I realized I was doing it all wrong. I was kneeling on a cold subfloor, sweat dripping off my nose, staring at a massive gap in an outside corner that was supposed to be my…
I stood there, sweat dripping off my forehead, looking at my brand new luxury vinyl planks. They were gorgeous. But then I looked at the edge. My old house has walls that aren’t exactly what you’d call ‘straight.’ There were…
I’ll never forget the sound. It wasn’t a bang or a crack; it was a soft, rhythmic hiss coming from behind the wall where I’d just fired my finish nailer. I was right in the middle of a baseboards makeover…
I’ll never forget the afternoon I spent shouting at a four-inch structural pillar in a client’s basement. I had just finished a gorgeous flooring installation, and all that was left was the trim. Simple, right? Wrong. Every time I tried…
