chimney is done
Monday, March 02, 2015
Saturday I cut and glued egg cartons, which takes a lot longer than you'd think...
Sunday I painted, grouted, sanded, aged and sealed....
The chimney pots are from my bin of scrap wood. I had a finial that was too big to do anything with, a castle turret that fell off a cheap birdhouse, a piece of dowel, and a handle from something that I enlarged the hole in the middle of.
I've got a little bit of fiddly work to do on the very top...there is a slight gap where the foremost chimney pot doesn't sit flush that is driving me crazy. (Because I didn't cut the peg on the bottom of the finial off flush.) I think I'm going to stuff some old dead moss in the gap. Then I need to build up a thicker coat of ash under the working chimney pot. I capped off three of the chimney pots with rubber o-rings and paint, since I bricked over the old fireplaces outside and the bread oven inside doesn't have a door and will be stuffed with wood.
I love how you've aged the exterior - it really adds so much character to a building =0)
Posted by: pepper | Monday, March 02, 2015 at 07:16 AM
If you don't want to moss it, you could push spackling in with a glue syringe...I did that around some windows to weather-strip them. :]
This chimney is divine, by the way. :D
Posted by: brae | Monday, March 02, 2015 at 10:02 AM
You never cease to amaze me!
Love the grunge!
Posted by: Susan | Monday, March 02, 2015 at 01:04 PM
Good idea, Brae, thanks.
Posted by: Keli | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 at 09:49 AM