My wife wants my to dress up the passageway between the dining room and living room that is about 18.5 inches deep and 98 inches wide. I want to put wood on the sides and then trim around it like a doorway. The problem is I can't seem to find nice wood that is 18.5 inches wide other than plywood which I want to avoid if at all possible. I see nice select quality pine and poplar at Lowes, etc up to 12 inches wide. Lowes did have a 20 inch wide pine board that was basically a bunch of smaller strips glued together but it did not look as nice as the select pine/poplar as it had a lot of knots. I just want to paint all the trim white and not stain it. Would it be that hard to cut two pieces of the select grade wood and then try to make it look reasonably like one piece after being painted? I have a table saw [Ryobi BT3100] so I could rip the pieces at 45 degrees and plane/sand edges, glue and nail the joint so that it is on a stud, then fill it with something and sand. Should that look OK? If so what should I use to fill/hide the joint? I suppose I could use the 20 inch wide stuff from Lowes but it would be much easier working with the smaller select quality lumber that also looked much nicer. Thanks for any help. --- Steve
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18 years ago