YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED

I like to spoil the other half by trying his patience as well as his DIY skills to the limit but he’d never expect anything less so it’s just as well he’s risen to the challenge of making small wooden frames to sit inside our recessed panels. 

We’re using pine door stop mouldings (B&Q £4.34 for a 2.4m length) which will be stuck into position inside the wood panel squares with wood glue. 

Pine door stop mouldings - B&Q

I’m hoping these frames will transform the panels from the current plain ‘Shaker’ style and give them more of a semi Victorian look, neatening the edges whilst hiding a multitude of assembly defects.

Panels with and without bead frame

Measuring up the pine strips

So it’s sand, prime, paint, yet again for each individual strip as we’re sticking each piece into place separately rather than making up the whole square frame.  Crazy?  Yes this probably looks like the long winded way of doing things but as our recess panels are not all the same size then to us it makes more sense to build things up bit by bit in case our measurements are not all plumb.

Shop floor supervision of the furry kind