Asked on Jan 22, 2016

Trimming over rounded drywall

Kri1374650
by Kri1374650
Our house was built about 10 years ago and has rounded drywall. The problem is, my husband and I love old houses. How can we trim over the rounded drywall to get that "Old house" trim that we love?
Thanks.
  6 answers
  • Kathy Kathy on Jan 24, 2016
    I would trim out the face of the windows with normal wood trim, however I would use 1/4in thick wood to trim the inside of the opening butting up to the face. The ugly edge would be covered by the wood trim around your windows. I too love the old fashioned wood trimmed Windows, it's hard to find those types anymore.
  • Duv310660 Duv310660 on Jan 24, 2016
    I live in an 1872 farmhouse; the upstairs windows (not formal spaces) have 3 edges trimmed with dowelling the width of a light broom handle that was set into the fresh plaster in bevelled corners; the bottom edge had a plain board that is the "apron" to the wooden window sill (our sills are very deep to accommodate layers of plaster, lathe, framing, airspace, sometimes brick and then the fieldstone that makes up the outside wall). You could mimic this with some glue, plywood and either some half round moulding or some dowelling that you have planed off the top to give a flat edge to centre and glue onto your wall's bevelled edge. How ever, I sense what you really want is the formal woodwork that you find in the 'show-off' areas of older homes. This too can be pretty easily done by searching out what is available in moldings, cove, chair rail and baseboard trim. Put together a combo that you like by stacking 2 or 3 trims together. Get creative; use strips of plywood or similar flat surface or maybe even beadboard to deepen the frame (google 'how do I make a faux fancy baseboard?' for some ideas. All you need is use of a mitre saw, careful measuring, some good glue and a couple of screws for each strip you place. Placement: if it were me, I would place them along the outside of your bevelled corners, as it will make your windows look bigger... but if you want to create a square edge, set them flush with the inside of your framed window and fill the gap with poly flla or durhams rock hard putty or similar. Design: typically in older homes, the fanciest mouldings were used for the most formal rooms, while private or staffed areas like the kitchen were paired down be plainer. You choose. Also, ONLY dark woods like oak and walnut were shown off in their stained and finished state. Lighter woods like pine were either made to look like dark wood (google 'faux wood graining') or painted. I feel that a logical and practical plan is to 1. paint a darkish woody colour, 2. dry brush a highlight colour to give depth, and 3. antique glaze the whole thing and dab back, leaving more glaze in the depths and valleys of your moulding and less-to-none in the flat areas. Do this flat on your table, cut carefully, check for fit, then glue n' screw to your wall.
  • Moxie Moxie on Jan 24, 2016
    I have ran into this before; you can have trim milled for your windows with the bullnose edge milled out of the back so that it sits flush like you want it to. Contact a local millwork shop and they should be able to fix you up!
  • Rfs3228579 Rfs3228579 on Jan 24, 2016
    Reg, Vancouver Canada Here we visit our drywall supplier who stocks vinyl bull nose that is nailed or screwed to a corner where two drywall sheets meet. It then needs to be coated with filler, smoothed and when dry sanded. Check with your local supplier. Good Luck
  • Charles Prock Charles Prock on Jan 24, 2016
    Three ways....1. Just run the trim boards until they meet each other leaving a little void at the curve. 2. Make a champher that will fit in the little void by setting your table saw blade at a 45deg angle and ripping a board that will fit the space...3. make a template of the trim boards you are going to use and mark where they fit over the corner and then mark along the outside of the trim boards and cut the sheetrock out and then the trim will fit flush.
  • Babs Babs on Jan 25, 2016
    We had same problem. Removed drywall and beading from inside windows. Trimmed with wood sills and trim. A lot of work but well worth effort when all windows were finished. Several years later we installed plantation shutters which probably would have covered bull nose edge. Still worth effort and windows look great with shutters open or closed.