How To Cover A Half Moon Window

You guys!  Today's project is hands one of our favorite before and later on's to date!  Nosotros recently collection to our sis's house in Houston to crash it and give it a little shanty makeover.  We have already shared so many of the other projects with you, and today nosotros are showing y'all how nosotros gave her dining room window a serious update!  Many of y'all may have one-half circumvolve windows.  They can not only exist difficult to keep sun and heat out of, only they also tend to lock the room they are in into a sure look and era.  We decided to take intendance of that with a little trim… Well, actually it was a whole lot of trim!Just click the Play Button below to scout!

Before you all inquire, from the outside of the house, the window at present looks white.  You tin can definitely add something to the back of these boards before attaching if you desire a different look, but nosotros love the simplicity of the white!

Now, each window in every dwelling is going to be different.  We will show y'all how nosotros achieved the look with her window setup, just you volition likely have to change it a bit to work with yours.  The very kickoff affair we did was remove the existing window stool and replace it with new boards that were flush with the edge of the wall.  We used our tabular array saws to become them the exact width nosotros needed.  We are using primed white pino boards for the whole matter.

We fastened the new stool pieces using wood glue and 2″ nails with our Ryobi 16G End Nailer.

Side by side, we created the "Fifty" piece, or apron that runs nether the window.  This is a i×four piece with a 1×ii piece that we attached to one finish.  To get the measurement of the 1×4 slice, nosotros measured the very finish and inside of each side window to get the overall width of the whole window.  Then nosotros added 7″ to that number since we are going to exist adding a ane×four going vertically on each finish in a later step.  So, measure this number and then add 7″.

The one×2 slice will be ane.5″ longer on each end and stick off evenly.  We attached those together using wood glue and i.25″ brad nails with our Ryobi 18G brad nailer.  One time those were attached together, nosotros placed in flush with the new stool piece and attached it to the wall using the finish nailer with ii″ nails over again.  The frock volition sit evenly under the window.

Next, we moved upwards pinnacle!  This is a stride that some of you may non need depending on your setup.  Our half circle window was joined to our lower windows, so we needed to create a head jamb for the top of the window to separate the two.  We beginning measured this spot…

Then, nosotros cut a board to fit that space…

To attach information technology, we added iii/4″ pocket holes using our Kreg Jig to the top of this lath where nobody will e'er come across the holes.  Then, we attached it to the wall on each side using 1.25″ pocket hole screws.

We worked our way upward from that point.  We used a 1×10 board and a 1×ii board to create the first slice for the header of this window trim.  We cutting the 1×x the same length as the 1×4 we used to create the apron, and we again made the i×2 board ane.5″ longer on each side.  We fastened the 1×2 to the 1×10 using wood mucilage and brad nails, and and then set the bottom of information technology affluent with the inside top of the windows and attached it to the wall using 2″ Spaz screws into the wall studs.

We built the rest of the header side by side.  This is a 1×viii lath, cut the same length as the apron with a 1×2 board fastened to each cease.  The 1×2 boards are the aforementioned measurement equally the previous i×2 boards.

We attached them using wood glue and brad nails, and then attached the unabridged piece to the wall using two″ Spax screws.

From at that place, we moved on to our vertical trim pieces.  The outside two boards are 1×four.  We grabbed this measurement and cutting them to size.

We fastened them using ii″ finish nails.

For the inside trim pieces, we grabbed this measurement.  We then used a table saw to cut 1×6 boards downwards to the exact width nosotros needed.  The were the same length every bit the 2 outside trim pieces, and we also fastened these using 2″ nails.

That'south information technology for trim!  At present comes the most of import part…. The caulk and woods filler!  My stepdad once told me… Caulk and Paint make a carpenter what he ain't.  I love it!  It's and then truthful!  And it really comes into play when working with walls that aren't totally square and flush.  We filled all of seams with caulk, and filled the nail holes with woods filler.  Later that stale, we put our sister to piece of work painting it to match the rest of the room!  Now, let'south wait at that earlier and afterwards once more!  Hide your eyes…  Here is the beginning before!

Here it is right before we got our hands on it!

And here she is now… Heck yeah!

What well-nigh that guys?!

And a shot of the whole room….

Here are links to all the goodies we used!

Finish for tabletop click HERE

Paint for base of tabular array click HERE

Rug under table click HERE

Window panels click HERE

Dining Chairs click Here

Tabular array Runner click Hither

Centerpiece Vase Click HERE

Source: https://www.shanty-2-chic.com/2018/08/adding-trim-to-a-window-and-hiding-a-half-circle.html

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