I’m trimming out a room that will be all walnut with 66″ wainscote paneling, builtins etc. The adjacent bathroom is all trimmed in white and there is a pocket door seperating the two.
How is the transition between painted and staine grade trim usually handled.
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At the door.
On our project, the doors were walnut on one side, paint grade on the other. The goal is that when the door is closed, the finish is continuous. The transition of the flooring material takes place 1/2 way through the bottem of the door.
Do you change the finish at the center of the door casing as well?
At the stop strip in the middle of the jamb.
Dave
Dave,
Unless you have no stop strip, since it's a pocket door. Then what? I think that's what he (TomW) was asking.
Geoff
Pocket doors have two sets of stop. One on each side of the door.
Woodroe,
I've never seen a pocket door with stops on the strike jamb, always just a flat jamb, like a cased opening.
Do you apply stops on this jamb? I don't see the reason for doing so, but maybe I just need to get out more often...:)
Geoff
I could see putting stops on the strike jamb in this case as it adjoins a guest bathroom and it may give a higher sense of privacy. May also cut down on the light coming through if someone were using the bathroon in the middle of the night.
Tom,
I guess I was a little quick on the "no reason" part of my response, your right that would make sense from a privacy standpoint, even if it's only a "sense" of privacy.
But I have just never run across it done that way.
Geoff
But I have just never run across it done that way.
It was done like this in older work. It does, in fact, cut down on light passage, etc.
A couple of months ago, I was upgrading trim at a newer house. I shot in some ogee stops on an existing pocket door just to add some visual interest.
I often do stops but not thin ones. I make them fit to edge of jamb so the efect is as though the door tracks into a dado in the stop amb side.
Then the casing moves over the thickness of the stop.
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I like that idea Paul.
With panel doors it also means that equal amounts of the doors stiles will be showing, as you normally 'loose' 3/4" on the side of the opening that the door pockets in and out of.
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Dave's got it right, although, I think you meant jamb, not casing.
Correct.
Good to go.
Good luck.