It's Gettin' Fancy Up In Here.

Imagine a mix between Nelly and Iggy Azalea.

We may or may not have danced to these songs while working on casing in one of our entryways this past weekend.  Last Friday, the entryway to our living room (the living room is off of our front entryway/hallway) looked like this:

We just recently put the ribbed casings around the entryway.  Before then, the sides of the entryway looked like the top portion that you see in the above picture.  Eric and I had many discussions about how we wanted this entryway to look.  It is the biggest entryway, besides our front door that is in this space, so we wanted it to look "fancy." On one of our many trips to Lowe's, we looked at this specific kind of door casing and fell in love with it right away. Here is an up close and personal look at the door casing we chose:

To go underneath of the casings, we bought two plinth blocks, which helped make a smooth transition between the casings and the baseboard.  You can see this transition (and a sneak peek of my future wall collage) in the picture below:

Looks pretty good, right? It's got us smiling! But just wait.  It gets better.  We went back to Lowe's and bought three boards to make our header for the entryway.  We started with a 5 1/2 inch base. First, Eric measured from the outside of one casing to the other.

He then made sure to add a half inch to the board when cutting it, so that there was a quarter inch hanging off on each side of the casings.  Here's what the base looked like after cutting it.

Once Eric set the base on top of the casings, we discovered that the drywall extended past the top board in the doorway, which created a nice sized gap.  Lucky for us, this gap could easily be filled with some caulk.

After nailing in the base, Eric measured for the base cap, which had to be the same length as the base. He cut each side of the base cap at a 45 degree angle.

Eric then nailed this piece in and started to work on cutting smaller pieces to finish off the sides of the base cap.

The next and final piece that Eric cut was the crown that sits on top of the base.  The ends of the crown were cut at a 45 degree angle, but doing this is tricky on a miter saw since when you cut the crown it's not in the same position as when you install it.  Speaking of installing the crown, here's Eric nailing it in with our nail gun.  I don't have a picture of it, but Eric also cut side pieces for the crown to give it a more finished look.

Obviously we are still working on our front hallway, but it makes us happy to know that we now have this entryway to the living room looking pretty spiffy.

 

Now all that's left for this entryway is to spackle over the nails and to paint it white.  Woohoo!  We are so happy with the way this entryway turned out.  Now we feel like we can walk through it like we are walking down a runway...errr maybe that's just me. :)

What fun did you get into this past weekend? Did you case in any entryways? Or maybe you worked on another house project that you've been dying to finish? Tell us all about it in the comment section below! :)