week 3 of build: 5

at this point the fire place was finished with all the pieces in place all that needed doing was putting a stone slab in front of it. The fire places looks incredible realistic, Emily did a great job on it making the entire thing out of wood, its the first thing you see when you walk in the door and its the focal point for this room.

Karen began putting the framing for round the windows in the living room, they should look great once there painted though we are running low on all colours, now they look very good. The double doors were varnished and Stuart aged and stained them using techniques showed to him by Henry earlier in the week. One he had done this Adam helped him to put the first door in place. The skirting that wasn't glazed the day before was glazed and the order they were to be put down in was sorted out. We planned to put them in place until it was pointed out that we needed to put lining round the doors, so the skirting was taken off and Emily and Sarah started making the ones for the double doors while Adam and I measured the one for the front door. When we had done that Adam did the one in the bedroom as well and the rest of us pinned the lining to the door ways.

we also started on the floor in the living room, in the morning we cleared everything out so in the afternoon Ben, Eleanor, Jo and I could mark out where the lines were. The Ben and i masked out the lines and where the carpet went so we could start painting, we would have finished but we ran out of masking tape. We finished what we could.

The biggest thing for the day was putting up the ceiling which had been painted the day before. For this Timber was laid over the top and the ply was drilled into place under them so the timber didn't show through and so the ply didn't bend in the middle. When it was all in place Adam went around the outside with duck tape sealing of any gaps in the walls so no light shone though. The room became very dark even with the window and no door, it suddenly felt much smaller and with the walls and floor as they were it was quite like a cave.