Things are done the way they're done b/c that's the way they work.

There’s a skylight in our kitchen, along with a sliding door that exits onto our back deck. A bright, sunny kitchen was a HUGE selling point for us and the space is one of my favorite things about the house. That’s even after we realized two doors and a skylight letting in sun all morning easily added 10 degrees to the house’s temperature, especially once it really warmed up in the spring. When it got hot early this summer we put paper blackout shades over everything in desperation; that worked well enough to at least keep things live-able. It looked horrible and it was a pain every time you wanted to use the door to go outside, especially after we added a sheet for an extra layer, but it served its purpose. 

I finally reached a point this fall where I had had enough and got the okay to buy some cordless cellular shades to over the door. They do the same job and look much better doing it. But I had to remove some trim to get them onto the wall, and was wondering how to put it back up once I was done. I trimmed a section out so it would fit where it was originally, and thought I could glue it back on. Wrong.

Obviously a cut out if you know what you're looking at, but not the kind
of detailI pay huge attention to.

Needs some touch up paint, cover some nails, good to go.

After scrambling to keep things in place with glue and tape, I finally realized grabbing two finishing brads would be so much easier b/c that’s exactly what those nails are made for. A quick run back to the garage, and 90 seconds later things were on the wall for good and we were all done.

So much better. I should probably build a valance next.

That’s a long way to express exactly what I said in the title here, but trying to be cute and glue things on was the absolute wrong way to go. Finishing nails might mean having to cover them and do some paint touch up, but things are done that way b/c it works that way. A good lesson to learn, especially if I want to repeat the process on our basement sliding doors.