Holding bits up with one hand
whilst making good with the other
Running repairs before more make-over
I’m always surprised that any of Hogepotche Hall has lasted this long. And yet, and yet … am now miffed as I gently remodel the women’s sleep area into something else, causing as little disturbance as possible, when a chunk of wood (which I never touched, Your Honour, honestly) falls off the wall.
It would seem that the, recommended, ‘proper wood glue’ though it was when applied five years ago is now giving up on its gluey-ness where its been asked to hold a mock beam to the walls.
Following day
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- Basic bits for linen area more or less in
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- and the same for a two bed space sleep area
The bed cubby hole looks a bit modern looking but I’m sure someone would have come up with it then too. Should have been one bed for the two girls but didn’t like the look of it so fiddled about and managed to get a chest tucked in under the top bed which is useful.
It’s a small soft wood domed chest from eBay from which the dome has been hacked off (didn’t like the “dominess” after all) and replaced by mock planking, holes drilled for rope handles and the brassy clasp colour taken down with a little pewter paint. Also scored some plank marks round the body of it – now it looks like a crate with a lid.
Doesn’t look like anything to write home about but it quite nicely and quietly sits there under the back bed hinting at being more than it is.
That battery light
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- Am no use with a soldering iron so haven’t shortened the wire from the battery LED and it tends to hang around in line of sight if you bend a little. (Top left red and black wire loop a-dangling)
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- Have turned the battery over in its cradle and that takes up a bit of the slack and the rest can only be viewed if you really try I think
What’s the colour scheme?
I have a colour scheme? Well let’s see. What have we got?
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- Linen area with a few bits draped
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- and ditto in the sleeping cubby – getting some quite nice borrowed light in here I see
Stepping back again to view adjoining spaces – hard to judge, should have put the other lights on.
OK, decision time followed by a bit of action: what combo of colours, size of pieces, finish to edges, what else? Clothes hanging off pegs in both room spaces, more hanging herbs, the odd pair of clogs and an apron perhaps …
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