Inching Away
Last week.
Today.
Today. The three dining room windows are being reglazed in place, and it will be a few weeks before I can paint them black.
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Will you be painting the portion below the windows with the scroll work solid dark green? Seems to me that would be in keeping with the tower and will “ground” the windows.
Yes, everything below the windows will be green. Like the brooch. Can’t wait!!!!!!!!
I’m very excited to see that! I’ve been ever so (im)patiently waiting!
How much more of the exterior do you anticipate being finished before it gets too cold to paint? Will you make it around the corner to other dining room wall and then on to the servants staircase, or have you reached a good stopping point? As much as I hate to say it, summer IS drawing to a close.
In Kansas one can reliably paint through to December.
Sometimes even January.
Yes, when I finish with the Great North Wall (soon!) I will be erecting a scaffolding tower in the NE corner. My hope is to finish painting the east facade (it is now partially painted) by the end of the year.
In 2018 I begin on the south facade!
The north facade is looking fabul-icious!!! Just wonderfully crisp with smooth finishes!!
It’s amazing how a good (‘correct’) paint job can make you appreciate the Architecture so much more. The dining room wing looks much more impressive now and if you squint while looking at the large black dining room window flanked by green trim it kinda reads (to me at least) a bit liike the open porch elements to the right. Bravo Ross…and Charles Squires!
It’s looking better and better all the time! And when I think back to what it looked like when you purchased it, the change is almost miraculous. (Almost, because it really was a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot of work.)
I’ll be in Emporia over the Labor Day weekend if you want any help on your paint crew. Holler if you’d like an extra hand.
My heart just did a little jig over here 🙂
My heart is doing the happy dance & a jig here Kirsten!!????
Question to Ross and anyone else. When reglazing windows- do you remove ALL the old glazing or just what is loose? I’m restoring my 1935 original 6 over 1 windows and have broken a pane or two in my attempt to get every last bit of old glazing out. Don’t know if I can put old glazing on top of new, but that looks like what you are planning to do, Ross.
I have worked on sashes that had been ‘touched up’ or repaired by putting new compound where it had broken out but only resurfaced where the compound stuck. The whole mess was failing and it looked to be only a few years previous.
Remove all the old material. You might also have to remove the glass and clean out the bedding layer on the inside between the glass and the wood. You don’t have to get to absolute bare wood as if new but there should be no lumps.