Not every project requires five trips to the hardware store. Most, but not all...
A few weeks ago we finally got around to finishing off a little trim detail we'd been meaning to get to since, oh, about 2011. This post is near the second-floor landing and has some nice scroll work on it, especially near the top. The lower portion, however, is decorated with painted plaster, which was pretty common back in ye olden tymes. The downside is that plaster collects nicks and dings and isn't as durable as wood. The bottom few inches, in particular, had gotten pretty beat up by decades of vacuum cleaners.
So we trimmed out the very bottom, as you can see here. The trim is built up from various pieces of redwood stacked one atop the other, and then all stained and finished as one piece. It matches both the floor and the post pretty well, so it looks like it's always been there. (I considered banging it up a bit to give it a distressed look like everything else, but figured that will happen all on its own. No point in hurrying things.)
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