Time For the List

I can't believe we're already at the end of May!  This is freaking me out a bit because it means there's only six more months before the house has to be done!

So today I worked on the shutters for the casement windows and got them ready for the hinges.  Then I got all the windows in a box so I wouldn't break any of them while I waited for the hinges to arrive.

The inside of the front bay window just looked really messed up so I got out my wood putty and began to fill in and smooth out all the cracks and round the inside of the corners.

It has to dry and then I'll put some plaster on it and off white paint.  It needs window trim for the inside too and I'm debating making shutters for it.  If I have enough hinges to pull it off.  It would be tricky but I might be able to do it.

My next step was to figure out the layout of my second floor.  I need to know where all the furniture will go, sort of at least, in order to figure out where I need my lights.

The second floor is going to be set up as a sort of workroom.  The back side will be for the loom and spinning wheel.  The front is going to be a sort of stillroom/laboratory.

I'm planning on taking the slats off the tables...and the middle table, I'd like to redo the top so it looks more like wood planks.

And the cupboards next to the white boxes... Those might end up being smaller or of a different style.  The white boxes represent the fireplaces.

Again, not sure about the cupboards.  But the loom, stool and spinning wheel are definite.

I'm planning on two old style chandeliers hanging from the beams over the two rooms.  And I'll run the wire down the beams and beside the window down to the back wall.  And the stillroom/laboratory needs more light, a candle stick on the main worktable and one near the bookshelf, and another on the small table under the front window.

I've got a couple more bookshelves to go in the larger gable over the bay window and that'll fill in that space a bit.  Plus the frame around the casement window will have a wider ledge on the inside.

You've seen how I want the lower floor set up.

I'm planning on some candles over the fireplace, and there's also the fires that will be in the fireplace on both levels.  But the kitchen will need a candelabra on the table most likely.

I also want a candelabra in the bedroom.  On the bedside table and then maybe a standing one by the foot of the bed or near the fireplace?  And I'd like to have one in the tower room as well as the sconces I want in the tower.

So my list (not necessarily in this order):

Drill & Route out channels for lighting wires.
Finish shutters & interior trim for all windows on main cottage. (my hinges arrive 6/1/18. Yay!)
Build Fireplaces & chimneys
Cut bricks and stone for outside of lower walls and tower.
Add brick/stone to fireplaces.
Plaster upper walls and third floor of tower.
Add timber to upper walls and third floor of tower.
Paint stone.
Add grout to stone and brick.
Ceiling beams on first floor.
Ceiling beams and roof support for lofted ceiling on second floor.
Ceiling beams and roof support for the tower.
Build furniture:
          Make sink
          Make curved table for tower room
          Make loom
          Adjust tables for lab
          Make stool
          Make telescope
          Make orrey
          Make tapestry
          Make rush mats
          Make bedding
          Make books & scrolls
          Make paper pottery
Furniture in place finalize lights.
          Make candelabras
Add flooring
Plaster inside walls
Inside window trim & shutters
Build base for house.
Create 'slate' roof
Create front garden
          Make tree?
          Make stream?
          Make lake/river to go alongside house
          Make stone wall to go around garden
          Iron front gate.

I'm sure there'll be revisions to the list and additions and of course a million and one details to add.  And I'll have to rearrange the order in which I'll do things.  But I'm hoping I can figure out a way to get most of the outer walls finished.  If I run all the electric so it goes down the back wall and under the foundation I can put my outlet strip back there and make a little shed or lean-to to cover it.

I also was thinking of making a little bee house... like Jodi did for her Three Little Pigs Revenge?  I need to look at her posts and see how she did that.

Lots to do!