week 3 of build: 4

When we came in for the day we found that some of the wood for the door we had cut the day before was missing so we quickly measured out and had some more cut, Eleanor and Katerina took the panelling we had cut the day before and sanded the edges down so they all looked identical and fitted in the door perfectly, while they were doing that Stuart and Adam carried on building the doors, they worked all day and both doors were finished and aged, one side of each was ripped like the other door and the table because that would be the side in the bedroom.

We also needed Skirting for both rooms so Hannah, Sarah and I got the 18" which I had had ordered in and had it cut to 15cm thickness, it made more than enough skirting we then measured out the walls and worked out how theses needed cutting to turn them into the accurate sizes. Then they were painted and most of them were glazed.

The wall fixtures were brought in and put on the walls.

When Ben got in I started helping him with the floors, now that they were dry we painted them, we had to do them in sections of strips at times so there were no gaps between the lines. when the paint was dry we ran down the sides with a dark brown which was almost black smudging as we went along creating definition between the slats. For smudging we used a bit of sponge and after running the paint brush along the edge we ran the sponge along the same line blending it in. When all the slats were painted next was to create the wood grain effect, unfortunately we only had one tool so I went to help Stuart and Adam who had also stayed late at university to paint the double doors, while Ben worked on the flooring. The doors were painted the same as all the others but we found that we were running out of paint and by the time it came to doing the second side with the lighter paint it was very watered down giving the wood an almost purple look, but once the button polish was applied over it they were a rich brown colour. While Adam and I finished the second side Stuart went to help Ben with the floor, using a nail to put scratches down a few of the slats highlighting the edges, I didn't think it would do anything but just a few lines creates a 3D effect along with the shadow lines. then a few scratches were applied near the door.