Not Quite There....

Layer Upon Layer......

I am sure Dear Readers, that Some of you have been  wondering if I would Ever get back to working on the Tree House Bath Room! Well, rest assured that I have been slowly working on it.... but mostly I have been wrestling with some complex engineering challenges with the construction of the ceiling! You may remember that I showed a picture of the circular shell Dome I wanted to have for the central portion of the ceiling...

Here, I will show you again..... 

It is a shell just like the floor, only showing the curved white underside.....

and I attached a rim of the white tiles to the underside.... 

and inserted a small LED light through the hole at one side...

(but we will see more of that later...). 

The challenging part comes in because I wanted to have slender pearl pillars supporting the dome.... or at least Appearing to support it.... which means they have to be exactly the right length to reach between the floor and the ceiling..... Here below you can see the beginnings of the pillars taped in place.... (upside-down)

And then, of course, I have to test them in place to see how they will work......

This is the general idea.... each pillar is a slightly different length... 

because the ceiling is not level and the floor is not level.... 

so I have to keep track of which pillar goes where....

But then I became aware that the dome height was too high for the wooden ceiling above it to attach properly to the side walls... and the ceiling insert was slightly off in it's shape and really needed to be done over.... but I had already securely glued the dome to it..... 

But the biggest question was How to attach the pillars to the floor and the dome....?

I decided the pillars needed better feet with a better gluing surface....

 Here above you can see the new feet added..... 

which only threw off the careful length calculations.....

 Then I decided to glue a "socket" to the rim of the 

dome for the top end of the pillars to plug into....

and added the pearl trim to the dome rim too....

And of course, I have to get a bit carried away with the pearls.....

Here I am just testing the look if I also add swags of pearls between the pillars.....

And then, because we Are getting Carried Away....

I have a Vision .....

And I need to see if it will work.....

I want Gauzy curtains bedecked with pearls to surround the Bath....

And I find a Tiny scrap of netting I have saved since I was nine years old.....

And cut it into tiny curtains and glue tiny iridescent beads to it..... 

one by one...

And then we have to see if it works in place......

And can we see it with the Bath in place....???

Oh, Goodness! 

I guess we will have to wait while Mr. Rat finishes his bath....!

And while he is bathing... 

we will have a look at the rest of the Ceiling problems.....

Because the shape of the ceiling is not right for the room.... 

and there needs to be an "eyebrow" over the moon window.....

So I cut and fitted a new ceiling piece (not yet glued in place...)

And covered it with that iridescent glittery star paper I have....

(Because we Can't have an Ordinary ceiling...!)

And then I removed the Dome from the old ceiling piece 

and attached it to the new one....

And while I was at it I glued all the Pearl Swags in place....

Of course, we have to test it in place from time to time.....

Here it is with the ceiling fit, but no pillars in place.....

I still have to get them re-sized to fit between the Dome and the floor...

And not have too much pressure on them so they remain straight.....

Oh yes, and the Curtains..... and the Tub.....

But where are the pillars...?

Still just Testing.....

The actual gluing things together is going to be.....

Challenging to say the least!

We may Not Quite be ready for that yet.....

But, Layer upon layer the Vision is slowly coming Together!