Good news: the easy part of the trim is done. Well, it’s cut. I haven’t done any fastening yet since some of the walls aren’t perfectly smooth and I have a bit of chiseling to do where I didn’t get all of the old flooring. It looks fine, but I want to get a bit closer to perfect.

Bad news: I’m no closer to getting the hard part done than I was several months ago.

This is one of four cuts I need to make that are not at forty-five degrees. I’m at a loss as to how to make them.

It’s at times like these that I really miss my dad. While he only had a grade four education, he was a skilled carpenter and a whiz at math. Most importantly, he understood how my brain worked and could put math into terms that made sense to me. I’ve been reading up on using protractors and doing calculations, etc., but none of it makes sense. Dad would have presented the solution to me in a way that would have made me go AH HA!

What I think I will end up doing is making a paste that I will press against the wall and let dry, then use it as a model for cutting the trim. Whatever works…