One of the things that I enjoy least when it comes up in one of these thrown together builds of mine is finishing off around the windows’ external face. Lintels, cills, and jambs stonework, if you’re going to have side pieces. The ones on this pair of houses are a right mix of with and without the down runners and and the two front dormers have a central mullion. The job seems to go on for ever but now is done, though I’ll probably fiddle them further as they catch my eye.
Some I’ve done with egg box lid coloured over and some directly with wood that I’ve roughed up a little and then coloured.
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- The front doors caused me some choice problems but I kept it simple with a slightly prominent lintel over the door and nothing at each side.
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- Back and front ‘lintel-ed’ – doesn’t look as though there’s been much change since last time, does it but it’s taken a number of days 🙂
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- Back windows finally in with mock stonework and the beginnings of the door between living space/kitchen and scullery
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The front doors need a goodly sized doorstep so that it can be smartly donkey stoned on its front edge.
In second pic am beginning to try out covering for front yard too.
If you’re wondering what on earth I’m talking about regarding the donkey stone here’s an article covering the use of it, though set in a later decade and still going on when I was a child in the 50s. I also came across this piece in the Manchester Evening News which mentions the production of them at one factory in the 1890s; it would seem that folk are buying them again!
I haven’t been able to find out if there’s any difference between this donkey stone and the holystone used in the navy to whiten the decks, but they do seem to be much the same type of usage. I seem to remember we moved on to painting the front edge of the doorstep instead in the 1960s.
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