More trim is always a good idea.. You can see the trim isn’t quite all finished in here, but it’s definitely a big difference from this time last year.. Here’s the other side of the room with the wall art that I showed you last week.. …and looking the other direction.. Next up we have the trim to finish, paint to touch up and then we’ll start bringing in the furniture, curtains, rugs, etc.
I was using a medium weight cotton drapery fabric and I cut all three strips to 9″ wide, with plenty of length just in case I messed up.I later learned that this is pretty hard to mess up though!.
The cornice kit that I was using had a 9″ drop (height) total, but they also come in chunkier sizes with 12″ and 15″ drops, so you’d cut wider strips for those sizes.. All I had to do was lay my fabric over the cornice and use the tuck tool to push it into the cracks on the front and the back to secure it in place!I started with the two outer strips and finished off in the middle.I learned that it’s very forgiving and any extra you have peeking out can be tucked away into the cracks, never to be seen again!.
I went for this really simple look, but you can also add in cording, or beading or really any kind of trim you like along the two “seams” in the middle to separate the three sections.Just make sure you get the kind of trim with a tab on it, so you can tuck it in and leave just the cording or trim showing.
I’m thinking maybe a little bit of red beading at Christmas time!
It’s so easy, I just may get carried away here.. To hang them, I just had to drill the brackets onto the wall and push the cornice onto the brackets anywhere in the back fabric tucking spot.For a little while, then the icky feeling came back because there were still those marked up parts on the walls and the floor was still torn up a bit.
I did a pretty good job of faking it for the pictures though didn’t I?.I had these (ridiculously easy to make!)
capri curtains and this little rug too, which were OK, but I was over the red.Still icky-feeling..