Editor’s note: Welcome to the 85th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

Last weekend, I had the good fortune to show my son how to install wood baseboard and interior door casing. We’re in the final stages of finishing over 1,000 square feet of living space in the ...

The casing looks magnificent if you hold it back 1/4 inch from the inside edge of the door jamb. The first thing I do is create these two fine pencil lines at the top of each corner of the door jamb.