Super Recycling!!!

Today I recycled a whole elevator!!! Not everyone can say that! Remember when I started to put an elevator in the book shop? Well, I saved it even though I decided on stairs.

I am not sure if they had dressing rooms in men's stores way back. I haven't found any information or photos. I am going to have one in this store anyway. I don't want men running around in their long johns in the store! Modesty prevails. After all, what if a lady should stop in for some handkerchiefs for her husband?

I simply painted the walls the same color as the walls of the haberdashery. I made a pleated curtain for the inside. It is very humid here today, so it may take a while to dry after spraying with hairspray. I will glue it in and put baseboard around the outside after it is finished.

I will be putting an oval mirror in the back of the dressing room. I need to put some kind of frame on it. I am showing it to you because there is a trick to make it look thinner than the normal mirror. I have edged the glass with black permanent marker. I will have to do it again as this is a very rough edged mirror. This takes away the glare of the edge of the glass and thus the thickness. When I put a frame around it the thickness will all but disappear.

I did tear the stainless steel floor out of the bottom of the elevator/dressing room. Somehow stainless steel didn't go well with a turn of the century haberdashery.

Try as I might, I couldn't get a photo through the glass without a reflection. I am to lazy to move this monster just to get a picture of it in progress.

At least you can get an idea of what I am trying to do. I think that the trunk is going to have to go further back in the store. I tried it in the front window and it blocked to much of the view.

I have to go check on the drying of the curtain now. By tomorrow I should have a dressing room in the corner permanently. See you then.