On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 10:05:44 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/13/2020 8:54 PM, wrote:
> > On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 4:52:46 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2020-07-13 4:48 p.m., wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 2:11:14 PM UTC-5, jay wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> You did take the
> >>>> switch plates off correct?
> >>>>
> >>> Wait.
> >>>
> >>> What??
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Don't laugh. My wife offered to paint our bedroom. We had really wide
> >> baseboards which I had intended to replace with a more contemporary and
> >> narrower size. I made the mistake of telling her she did not have to
> >> worry about painting all the way to the floor because the baseboards
> >> would cover it up. Silly me. I thought that mean she could leave as much
> >> as an inch and not worry about the edges. It never occurred to me that
> >> she would stop even higher than the old baseboards. I ended up having to
> >> go around and pain the bottom of the wall as a first coat and then do
> >> the entire walls as the second coat, actually the wall's fourth coat.
> >>
> >> Her strategy worked. I never again expected her to help with painting.
> >>
> > I was making a funny about removing the switch plates, figuring that would
> > not occur to John to remove them. But why don't/didn't you like the wide baseboards? Mine are a good 8 inches tall.
> >
>
> Mine are about 5 1/2". This is a relatively new style and size. I
> remember about the 1960's people were taking out the old big baseboards
> and putting in the clamshell style, about 4" or so. Elaborate panel
> doors were replace with flush doors.
>
> Some of the old baseboard styles were very ornate. I remember painting
> the ones in my grandmothers house that was built about 1900.
>
> https://donpedrobrooklyn.com/baseboard-styles/

Yep, and this house was completed in 1930! Still a lot of ornate wood work! And built back when some people still had servants! In fact the Municipal Codes still contain the phrase "(excluding servants)", and NO ONE has servants anymore.


John Kuthe, Climate Anarchist, Suburban Renewalist and Vegetarian