Our trim is just a subtle 2-inch strip of wood painted white, but we've been impressed by what a difference it makes. The ceiling went from having gaps and sagging panels to snugging up neatly against the rafters. The windows and doors looked unfinished until molding bridged the black gap between the frames and wall board.
Trim is a style statement. Some traditional houses call for intricate window molding--complete with frieze boards, mitered returns, crown molding and caps (see This Old House for an illustration)--but it wouldn't work in our setting. Narrow, flat trim suits the scale and style of our tiny house. We figured this out by buying small pieces of a number of options and looking at them in place: along the ceiling, around the windows and doors, and edging the floor. Style-wise and (not unimportantly) finance-wise, the simplest trim was the best fit.
And now...we're on to building the bathroom walls and tackling the plumbing...
Trim is a style statement. Some traditional houses call for intricate window molding--complete with frieze boards, mitered returns, crown molding and caps (see This Old House for an illustration)--but it wouldn't work in our setting. Narrow, flat trim suits the scale and style of our tiny house. We figured this out by buying small pieces of a number of options and looking at them in place: along the ceiling, around the windows and doors, and edging the floor. Style-wise and (not unimportantly) finance-wise, the simplest trim was the best fit.
And now...we're on to building the bathroom walls and tackling the plumbing...