Two into One

Here we go! Now the fun part begins. I didn't make a lot of progress today because I was doing other real life things. I did get a lot accomplished. The two Buttercups are now one.

The first thing I did was paint all three ceilings Antique White. I was going even darker with the top floor, but I thought that might be hard to see since I don't intend to wire this building. I reserve the right to change my mind on the color at a later date.

I turned the top house on it's little head to paint the ceilings. Actually, all of the ceilings were on that house alone. What would normally be the underside of the base on that house is now the ceiling on the first floor. It is much easier for the house to stand on it's head than it would be for me to stand on my head to paint after it is glued together.

It matched up pretty well considering I didn't dry fit it together before building the two houses.

In this first photo you can clearly see the glued line of the two houses. Tomorrow I will continue building up the rock work on the sides. I think that some of the seams will be either covered with wooden beams or with stucco covered beams. I am leaning towards the wooden ones at the moment.

Sidetrack......The scissors in the foreground are my "fabric only" scissors. No one uses the scissors with the beaded handle upon fear of death......This is the kind of thing that goes on when I am really bored. I mean the beading on the handle, not the fear of death part. I picked up the scissors one day and decided that they needed something to differentiate them from the other hundred pair I own.....Did I mention I collect scissors too?

Back to the house. Here's the front. I have changed the second floor so that there will be a window in the center instead of another door. I did leave the fanlight on that window instead of making it one arch topped window. At least that's how it is so far.

I am thinking that it needs more of a change. I am not sure what yet. I still have to close in the front window by the stairs on the ground floor. That is going to be a blank wall. I probably should have closed the holes before I did the staircase. Oops,I did it again!(Gee that sounds familiar.) I like to make things difficult and then solve the problem. What's the fun in doing it right the first time?

I think that most of the front "tower" will be rock work. Now all I have to do is figure out where it will go from there.

Oh well. Tomorrow is another day. See you then.