Two & a Half Days Of Work

I'm finally getting to take some of my vacation time.  So I got Friday off and worked on the dollhouse.

And kept working on it right up until I started writing this post.

I started with working on the third floor of the tower.  I got the floor measured and cut and then made it look like old wood and stained it.

I forgot to take a picture of it at that time but here it is now.

I started to age the stairs a bit more, I used some grey and black paint and darkened them.  I don't know that you can see it so much in the pictures though.

Then I started to work on the oriel window.  I got two of the bay windows from Houseworks and microwaved them so I could take them apart.

Then I cut a chunk out of one so it would fit against the curve of the wall.

And I glued the two of them together because I want it to stick out a bit more than the bay window would.

All the wood in the picture above is to make the casement windows for the oriel window.  That was what took most of the day yesterday.

I decided I wanted all the windows in the tower to have the Tudor arch (or as close as I could get) so I cut thin basswood for the tops of all the windows.  More Aluminum Blue fumes, though I took the mesh outside this time.

I smartened up and stained everything before putting the windows together.  My fingers were filthy and required scrubbing afterwards because I'm such a doofus I forget to buy rubber gloves.  Soap is cheaper than gloves anyway right?  But I did get them all together.

And I added some little triangles with a slight curve to the Houseworks casement window so it would look the same.

And then I had to put the window together.  This was...tricky.

I added the windows before putting the roof on.  Then added trim around the top and bottom of the windows to give it a similar look to the lower floor's bay window.

I'm waiting for everything to dry now before I do anything else.

I need to make sure the windows work completely, so I might have to do some sanding before it's totally complete.  And I've ordered some more handles for the windows and those need to be added.  But all the windows work, potentially.  And that's what my goal was.

I hope everyone else's weekend is going well?