My Hallway Renovation – How to repair drywall, paint, and install baseboard molding and door casing!

This Home Improvement project took a few weekends to get done, and I recorded a TON of footage for my YouTube video bellow. It took me a while to make this video so it’s finally here!

In this video I cover:

How to repair and prep drywall, fix nail pop outs and cracks
How to prime and paint your walls
What primer and paint I used
How to install door trim/casing
How to install baseboard molding, and corners in particular
How to caulk door casing and baseboard molding

I have enough footage on each of the above to do a detailed tutorial for each but the 10minute video will do for now. 😁

Some of the tools I used

Painting: 3/8in and 1/5in Nap Roller, Kilz Original Low Odor Primer, Benjamin Moore Regal Select Eggshell (Edgecomb Grey color)
Drywall: 6in Taping Knife, Regular drywall paper tape for cracks. Green All Purpose Drywall compound for cracks, Blue PLUS 3 for everything else. I used the Blue Plus 3 for everything.
Baseboard and Trim Molding: 5.5″ and 3.5″ rectangular MDF Molding, 18Ga Brad Nail Gun with 2″ and 1″ nails, Miter Saw.
Caulking: Paintable Acrylic between the Casing and baseboard, Paintable Silicone for the nail holes and miter joints.
LOTS OF PAITIENCE!!!!

Some tips:

Prime and paint before you put on the casing.
Paint the casing before you mount it. Or at least do one coat. It’s a pain to paint casing on your knees and keeping paint off the floor and wall.
For perfect casing and baseboard results. Fill the nail holes and miter gaps with silicone and do one coat of paint over. Alternatively, you can get a perfectly transition by using liquid wood, sanding it, and doing one coat over. I spot painted after caulking and it came out ok… 8/10.

Toughest part for me was the casing and baseboard. Lots of back and forth to the miter saw to get the angles just right! 😒 I made a bunch of mistakes until I got it the way I wanted it. It also didn’t help that the previous contractors did a bad job with the door jambs and drywall, things were crooked so I couldn’t get a tight miter joint. To get it right I had to do a compound miter cut… after spend a lot of time on getting it right, I opted to caulk forgo the compound miter and just caulk the gap!😂

There is no magic to it, there is no ultimate method, just practice!!! 😁