Gothic Details

 With the major modifications complete, it's now time to start the fine tuning of this soon to be spooky Halloween house.  As I mentioned earlier, Babette has a lot more patience than I when doing tedious work.  Thank goodness she decided to take on the making of all the bricks needed for this project.  She cut them out of styrofoam plates, and then glued the bricks to the chimney.  They will also be used to cover the area where the basement windows are cut just below the front porch area. This is definitely a time consuming job; glad she took it on and not me.  🤣  She's a doll!

  

While Babette worked on the bricks, I decided to remake the front porch.  I cut off the rounded ends of some Popsicle sticks and started gluing them to the porch, being careful not to lay them in any sort of pattern; Babette prefers the randon seam look.  I've built several decks during our marriage, but this one was the smallest.  After the glue dried, Babette came behind me with a Sharpie pen and put little dots on the ends of each deck piece to make them look like nail holes.  Then she made up a grayish type paint/stain to make the new deck area look weathered.  I think it turned out pretty darn good.

When the new porch floor was done, I went out to my workshop (garage) to cut and fit the trim around the new Gothic tower windows.  While I was in the garage, Babette took this time to apply a frosting over the windows on the house.  I know this is going to look great once the orange lights are installed inside the house; our hope is the spooky glow coming from the windows will look eerie!  Yesterday she applied liquid lead glass to the windows so they would look like old leaded glass windows.  You know, I do believe I taught her well; and if you believe that, I've got some great swamp land I need to talk to you about buying! 😂😂😂

 

With another work day in the books, it's now time to relax.  Yep, I can definitely hear that red & white wine bottles calling our names to come downstairs, grab a glass, and relax.  Sounds like a great plan to me, and who am I to ignore such a wonderful invitation.  Here is how she looks after today's work.

Tomorrow will be the new shingles and whatever else the boss lady has in mind for us to get completed.