More Painting...

 

The Boring Kind...

Way Back at the beginning of Summer, Dear Readers, I mentioned that over the years I had come to think of Summer as "castle building season". This is mostly because the light is better at his time of year, and the windows can be opened to easily ventilate the paint fumes which arise with the larger painting tasks. Some of you might remember that it was a few years ago already that I realized the plywood exterior of The Castle really needed to be painted to protect it from becoming too dry and brittle... and even so, I was not able to accomplish painting all the walls inside and out that summer nor the next and so on! The last two completely unpainted rooms remained in the "Lady's Tower" above The Chapel, as you can see in the above photo taken last June. July was spent working on the Great Hall windows and August saw much progress on The Chapel interior. September was mostly consumed by travel (preparing, going, returning and recovering!) and suddenly here we are in Autumn. The days of open windows were quickly disappearing.... 

                                 Was there still time to get the Tower rooms primed and painted?

                                                     There was only one way to find out... 

                     And that was to start painting.... primer coats on everything... both sides...

 Sorry about the dark photos....

 it was hot and the blinds were closed...

(Blogger has been giving me trouble with the line spacing... no idea why!)

As you can see, The Towers get used for storage

 and I had been avoiding clearing it off...

But I wanted to paint the crenellations too....

The placement of the interior stairs wall was going to

 be too close to the back window... 

and I was resisting the idea of fixing it....

 I decided to paint the rocks while I debated.... first the rock outlines.....

 Then the texture...

 But the window would have to be reduced in width!

Fortunately, I still had the original cut-out 

and was able to reshape the opening.

For both windows!

And with primer on the inserts....

And the rock texture added....

Every now and then a flash photo... 

here with the smaller windows...

 And finally painting the grout lines!

And the grout lines on both walls!

And the whole exterior with the doors attached...!

                                               Well, Dear Readers, it would appear that I did have time to paint the two remaining rooms... even if I was not able to paint the exterior of the Tower's last side wall. That wall will need to have the wiring and a buttress added before painting it. And since I have not been able to figure out blogger's line spacing problem.... I will leave it here... Just the boring kind of painting!