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kellan ([personal profile] kellan_the_tabby) wrote2020-06-07 05:07 pm
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incremental progress

It's a simple hook & eye, except it's like six inches long & kinda fancy.

The latches finally showed up, & they worked even better than I'd hoped. LOOK at that. & it holds the shutter closed without the slightest wiggle. I am VERY pleased.

So this window is done! It's not, really, I still need to add the decorative painting bits & make the frame for the lucite & clearcoat basically everything BUT. It opens, & more importantly, it closes. & it looks AWESOME! I'll take it.

The latch is fastened to the lower right corner of the shutter. It matches the hinges, & looks pretty good.

I also got a LOT of work done on the soap shelves! Check it out: two uprights holding two shelves. (I've got the rest of the shelves done too, but I only needed to put two of em in place for proof of concept.)

The two sides are built like ladders, with two vertical boards held together by small horizontal ones. They stand, facing each other, one propped up against Tyrava's side, with a shelf resting on the top two rungs, & another on the bottom two.

I hauled them all inside to paint them -- it's monsoon season, so having indoor projects is an EXCELLENT idea -- & used the last fence post on the floor. I like how it's gonna look!

Four rows of boards have been fastened to the floor inside Tyrava's front door, each stretching across the width of the floor. They're different widths & different shades of brown.

It's also gonna take forEVer! Yay! *really dramatic flop*
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Gorgeous

[personal profile] dialecticdreamer 2020-06-07 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
That is fantastic work!

Soap shelves? For what purpose? Do you make your own soap?

I wanna be you when I grow up.
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[personal profile] morgynleri 2020-06-08 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Looking excellent! Go you!
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[personal profile] thewayne 2020-06-08 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, I so wish it was monsooning down here! We had a day of rain last week, the observatory measured an inch, not so much here at home, only a 20 minute drive away.

Very purty, kiddo!
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[personal profile] corvi 2020-06-08 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, really good progress! When you say "decorative painting" do you mean designs and stuff?

[personal profile] damont 2020-06-09 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Woohoo!

It appears that the hinges for the window shutters are on the top, which is fine. But it makes me curious if you plan to have a way to keep them open without gravity slways stopping by to say hello. Or if you already have such a way and I just haven't noticed it yet.
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