Window and Door Trim - It Doesn't Have to Be Fancy

hen we bought our house {built in 1977}, we weren't blessed with anything special in the way of trimwork. In fact, none our windows even had trim - just window sills. Slowly we're changing all of that. So far, we've added trim to the living room and kitchen windows. None of our doors, however, have new trim yet. In fact most of our doors currently don't have any trim yet because we removed the old when we installed our paneled wood doors.

This weekend, along with installing a new wooden to door leading into my studio from the kitchen {in the photo above, we'll be removing the single french door - which is the current door to the studio and replacing it with one of the doors in the photo below}. The single french door is nice but because the studio is pretty cold in the winter and warm in the summer, we feel that a solid door would be more energy efficient. I might add, too, that it will help keep my studio a little quieter. I mean, I do have three kids!



Because it has been, what - 3 years? since we installed our double french doors {again in the first photo, you'll see that the french doors have no trim} and because we just installed a new exterior door in the dining area, it's finally time to put the door trim up in the kitchen. I went to Lowe's yesterday and bought the materials and hopefully by the days end, all the doors in the kitchen will look a little beefier.

Our trim is nothing fancy but really suits the farmhouse style I've always loved. It is just plain 6 inch wide pine. It's very easy to install as we don't even have to make any mitered cuts. We used the same style for our windows, as this old remodeling photo shows- easy peasy!



Here is an inspiration photo that I found with the look I want for our doors. See, nothing fancy, but just right for my style...



Here is something similar though it looks like they've added a bit more simple trim around the perimeter of the door.



Hubs and I aren't carpenters so we are glad that it is possible to have pretty trim without having major skills. By they way, the total cost of the materials to trim out the three kitchen doors? $40 - and we'll have some trim leftover, I'm sure.

I hope everyone has a wonderfully productive and/or relaxing weekend - depending on what you need right now! And don't forget, I'll have the Make Your Monday link post up on Sunday night at 7 pm Pacific time!