Not Enough Room For Trim Around Door

This solves half the problem.

Not enough room for trim around door.

Purchase your trim in lengths long enough to cover each wall. My trim sticks out from the wall a little teeny bit less than 3 4 of an inch. Build out the opening so the trim will fit. But even now a regular 45 degree miter won t fit because the molding has to tilt down to meet the jamb.

If you can t purchase the trim in long enough lengths don t worry. New kitchen addition finally getting to the finishing trim. The one that came with the hardware is not tall enough because of our carpet. We are going to replace the door slabs soon with nice 6 panel ones but i feel it s still missing something without the trim.

Option 1 is easier. Our poor jambs are buried in the walls and we don t have enough room for trim on some of the doors. Rip the trim down so it is narrow for the place where it won t fit. All wood trim around the doors windows and baseboards have been removed to be replaced with new trim.

In a perfect finish carpentry world all doors and windows would be installed with enough space to apply full width trim like in the picture below. What it lacks however is the warmth and varied grain pattern you can only find in real wood. Here are some of the details. We just realized at the place where a base cabinet meets with the door to our dining room there isn t the standard amount of space for the same trim that will be used around the other doors.

Trim works well along the middle of a wall three quarters down from the ceiling around windows and doors or along the edges of architectural features such as built in bookcases or recessed. This trim is far more stable than wood but cuts much the same if not easier. Correct this problem by tilting the trim on the bed of the miter box to match the angle at which it rests against. Which is better is entirely a personal preference.

The reality is that we sometimes we have to rip trim down to narrower pieces in order to apply it to a door or window and a wall. There is only 1 5 and we need 3 5. When the contractor used 12inch block not 10inch block we lost a couple of inches. Applying trim in confined spaces frustrates many people.

Pondering what to do about an interior kitchen passthrough no door that leads to a foyer where on the right side only i cannot fit a piece of 1x4 trim because the kitchen cabinets were installed too close to the wall not my fault. Any suggestions are much appreciated. I ve had to do this with door trim and haven t been unhappy.