Building first home

Painted trim or clear ?

 

Painted trim. We might just go permanent and glue it for the exterior walls

 

I was going to suggest glue and nails , we use Titebond 2 or Titebond 3 , the nails hold it while the glue sets up

 

Good to know. Ill check the store for that.

Any knowledge of undercabinet lights?


We want to hardwire them in. And recess jn the cabinet. Plan I have a double bottom shelf since we weren't keen on a balance below the cabinet.

Hard to find any you can hardwire. Led all seem to be plug in.

 

Most are low voltage that I have used , they are hard wired but you need a seperate tranformer somewhere accessable

 

The houses I used to work in we left a spot on top of the cabinets for the transformer.

 

Yep , it can go there as long as there is crown to hide it

 

Who the hell doesn't use crown?

 

Lots of places I have built have no crown

 

You need to step it up a notch then bud.

 

Crown doesn't suit a lot of trim styles in west coast buildings

 

You're not west coast your Canukastani....

 

Americans

 

I'm american, but I still haye crown molding. Cheap easy way of covering up shody work

 

Yeah. May try and hide the transformer in the cabinet.

We aren't doing crown molding. Doesn't match the overall style. At least our vision of our overall style.

 

Crown is blah

 

Could always make a box to cover the transformer in the cabinet out of 1/4" in a corner.

 

We actually don't have a lot of upper cabinet anyways.



I agree about the crown. Prefer a simpler look.

 

That's a nice layout, what are you doing for countertops?

 

You could hide the transformer in the vent hood cabinet.