This is the…restored…trim between the first- and second-floor of the Carriage House. It consists of a flat 1×3 board and crown.

Same trim, unrestored. Oh, the horror.

On the main west facade, the 1894 1×3 board has been reinstalled (the dark board) with the 1894 crown above. The 1×3 board was a mess, covered with tar and punctured by many nails. I removed the nails, scraped off what I could of the tar, flipped the board over, belt-sanded the former back, and installed it with the back now the front. This process…weirdly…makes me happy.

Stepping to the far right is this…eek!!!!!!!!…vinyl corner trim.

Pulling the vinyl aside reveals the original corner trim, caked with paint. The south facade (which is hard to see) is still covered with vinyl. I plan to retain this (but do not tell anybody). I will cut back the corner vinyl trim so the 1894 corner can be revealed.

The dark board is the 1894 1×3 trim. Its right-most edge was rotted so I cut that off, cut a new mitered edge, and reinstalled the trim. The crown edge was…amazingly…in reasonably good shape to I was able to simply reinstall it.

The white line, top right, is what I was able to salvage of the 1894 crown. By some miracle I took a section of the crown to the lumberyard and found…gadzooks!…an exact match. What are the odds of 129-year-old crown exactly matching brand new crown? Gadzooks, indeed. Under the crown is the 1894 1×3 trim, reaching over to the small window (click image to enlarge). I can easily find new 1×3 trim to infill the missing section. In short, when this work is completed it will exactly match what was there in 1894. Can you see my smile?