Have a customer who, some time ago, added on to their house. The sunroom now has one wall with clabboard siding in it, formerly an exterior wall. The doors have brikmold trim. They’re wanting to change out the woodwork in the house. I’ve got it all figured except for the trim on those two doors. They want the trim to all be oak. Whats going inside is colonial. I’m thinking about ripping 6/4 oak to trim those two doors with and routing a comparable profile onto them, and setting the doors such that the trim hits the siding like it used to. I don’t really like that solution real well though. The hitch here is they want to leave all the siding as is, (rustic look) and obviously you can’t lay conventional trim over clabboards and have it lay flat. Better ideas?
” Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders” – Nietzsche
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Extend the jamb and back the interior colonial at the siding, bringing it out to the depth you wish.
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They want to leave the clapboards on an internal wall? Guess that's rustic, all right. What I've done for sunroom conversions is to strip the siding and lay vertical T&G paneling on the sheathing that matched the material used to construct the room. Redwood paneling for a redwood sunroom, cedar paneling for a cedar sunroom. Trim is simple with the siding matching the room, and the room is more cohesive; everything blends. (On the redwood room, I fitted the paneling tight to an extended jamb on the door, so there is no casing whatsoever. The paneling was cut to fit around a palladian window.)
Leaving the clapboards on, is, IMHO, not in the best interest of the room and house. But, you didn't ask for my opinion. If you need more space between the jamb and siding, snap chalk lines parallel to the jambs to accomodate your molding and cut back the clapboards (bridging the clapboards with a piece of MDF or plywood and a fence.) Lay flat stock casing, then trim out with a back-band. The back band will increase the depth of the casing, raising it above the plane of the clapboard.
Though I still say to lose the clapboards.
not in the best interest of the room and house
Incidentally, I'm with you on that. But . . .like you said, they're really not looking a whole lot for my opinion either, just a price on trimwork. We all run into that periodically, I suppose. The most averse I ever got to what I was hired to do was a paint job where the gal wanted an entire room bright red, the ceiling white, and all the trim (old, quarter oak) including windows, olive drab. She loved it when it was done. I coulda puked.
" Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders" - Nietzsche