A place to hang your hat

and coats for the curved wall

Problems:

• Well, the hat felt looks too fuzzy and the shapes aren’t quite right.
• The small jacket is no use there at all as can’t see what on earth it is, but the coat may be OK.
• Needs a bag or satchel as well as the dog lead to dangle down perhaps?

Possible solutions:

• Might edge the brown hat and give it a ribbon too, but the school cap must go I think.
• Probably try out the bag idea and another coat or two; so not so much a place to hang your hat after all.

Checking the joins

Hiding and hidden or a bit of a cover-up

It’s Saturday and I’ve crept into the ‘Potting Shed’ to fuss with silly things.

• Checking the join of cake-slice section and main body of house:

An edge of sitting room added with hall paper on one face and sitting room paper on two

Inside view – piece has been made narrower and the paper no longer matches but as neither you nor eye can sit in there it’s one thing I’m not bothered by 😉

Theoretically what the piece would do when the sitting room cake slice is parked with the rest of the house

What it actually looks like when you look through the bay window.
View also good for judging how much space there is for top trimmings still to go on the hallway/sitting room full wall

• Wallpaper join over understair cupboard

It was great finding a colouring that the hall paper would take. But as most of the paper was already up, the colouring ‘found’ the join in the paper and hid out there, leaving an annoying reddish vertical stripe.

So have hung a bell on rope for moment to hide the offending line

There’s got to be that figurine

Being a Terry Pratchett fan the whole subject of that figurine brings to mind two of Mr Pratchett’s characters discussing what constitutes art and what is just plain rudery.  According to them, that if “there’s urns or a cherub in it then it’s art”.

1920s – 1950s

When it comes to depictions of Art Deco or Arte Moderne decor there seems always to be at least the one – figurine that is.  You know what I mean, I’m sure.  Our parents had one.  Yes, I’m referring to the woman.  Usually naked, sometimes portrayed with her coat/skirt trying to blow one way while she struggles in the other or she’s swooning in the arms of a tail suited gent while they sway to the rhythm of the music or she may be lying around in a bathing suit perhaps or as part of a desk set.

Sometimes she’s just an ornament with no other purpose, at other times she’s posing holding a lamp.  The one our parents had was in frosted glass affair with a pinkish base depicting rocks and a leaning/standing naked female holding up a very large chrome ‘torch’ base shape which had screw fittings to hold the flame/shade which was in yellow frosted.

I thought about ‘that woman’ figure and generally felt I’d go with the idea, but failed to make up my mind just what shape or persona she would take, until I came across this lovely little figure who is more like a car bonnet/hood mascot, not unlike the Rolls Royce flying lady.  She’s come from glasscraftuk.com along with the other glass items in these photos.

Here she is – small but beautifully put together

I’m thinking of putting her high up on the bookcase directly under a wall light

And, of course I needed …

a square cake stand and an oversized trifle dish for those special occasions

and a syphon won’t come amiss, along with a very lovely fruit dish, probably left for display only incase the fruit marked it, and of course a green glass vase for a window cill perhaps

Joining the two piece egg

but will it fit?

Packing things in, prepping one task, waiting for it to dry/set etc meanwhile carrying on, starting another that needs to dry so, not wanting to be idle, on the side I  make a little something for one of the darker corners.

The making bit first

This is a quick run at what seems an oversized peg bag by the side door – don’t think we ever had a coat-hanger one

Bit of old wash line with it, it seems

In relation to understair cupboard – another shot through the dining room doorway

and just visible over the top of the small door of that cupboard, the peg back sticks out into the hallway

The drying bit – much, much later

Well, more of a trimming measuring plus drying.  Trying to put together all the walls for downstairs and get the hall/sitting room party-wall decorated on both sides.  Also the tucked in corner of the dining room doorway before it gets impossible to get a hand in. Unfortunately trimming its doorway involves making it stick to the kitchen wall too so can’t be done whilst this section is loose.

Which tasks can be done while the walls are loose and which have to be done while performing a contortionist head stand.  It’s worked out about half and half I think but I’ve missed one or two that could have been done more easily I see.

View from the side doorway looking at one of the contortion jobs – dining room door surround and new wall joins: one with kitchen wall (out of shot) and this one where the recessed corner meets the new sitting room/hallway wall.

Delft rack was done more or less when right hand wall was loose

Newly dressed and fitted wall

Still shiny but better colour in the hallway with sitting room doorway awaiting its wood work. Should have done that before I stuck the wall in!

On the other face it’s dressed with the sitting room paper and needs its skirtings and ceiling level trim which had to wait until the wall was up as they need to turn the corner on the right

Checking the views

After I’d had the house closed I have reopened to see if there’s any scaring/marking happened. Our friend the telephone corner seems to be unharmed.

And the view down to the kitchen? Need to check that ceiling there – seems to be floating on the wall head

When it was close I tried a shot from outside in. Through the sitting room bay window. Ah – I can see hallway paper peeking round the new wall on the left. A strip of sitting room paper needs adding down the edge if possible.

More of when the house is together?

Shots from the kitchen which should match the views for the observer when the place is more complete.

First shot when house is not quite ‘parked’.  Look slightly to the right and you’ll notice a vertical line of light by the curved wall fit to the telephone corner.  Fully ‘parked’ in the second photo.

Through the kitchen doorway. On the left is the new door surround for the dining room and the stepped out wall, still needing its skirting board. I also notice that it needs some mending on the lower hall wallpaper strip

Slightly further down the hallway with the two halves of the house now fully parked. Here we can just see into the sitting room doorway. I’d forgotten the porch had a sort of arrow-slit window there. It puts a light pattern on the shiny hallway paper.

Externals when parked

Seems to fit – hurrah!