Lots and some

Well it feels likes lots but when you look again it’s just some.

There comes a period where you start doing lots of things at once, or almost at once.  Cut the bits for a shelf, stain them, while they dry cut the bits for a fender for trying out around the range, glue and pin and while that dries go back and varnish the shelf bits and put aside once more till dry before assembling.  Sort out the items you’re thinking of putting on this putative shelf (with a few substitutes) and then abandon those till the time needed and go and cut a wall lining for the other end of the room box so it can be decorated … and so on until you reach a point where it’s time to take a break possibly feeling that you haven’t actually finished anything.  But there will come a time when, with the help of a going breeze, that it will all slot in place somehow; as long as you can remember where you put everything.

It’s a lot like dressing the Deco department store room box with all the nooks and crannies that needed sorting and filling and of course doing up a kitchen is. It’s much the same experience; lots of stuff here there and everywhere.

Nearly all the period kitchens we see in photos or on visits to places of this period are museum exhibits and I am trying to achieve a balance between the display we often see and its active use, as if it were a busy day in this particular cooking arena.

So far I’ve been pogo-ing between the following:

One of the shelves been working on

Start on items possible for dresser

and start at servery area by dining room door

Brickwork added round range and storage area

One of two mottos decorating the room

and the second encouraging motto

The Arts and Crafts Movement were ‘big’ on helpful mottos.  Their on posters, sewn samplers and to be found in their writings on the subject of art and utility.

Lots more bits to do and probably need to find some smaller plates etc for these very small shelves.