Limestone Corridor

Finally I finished the limestone painting and moved on to the wallpaper doors. It took the whole weekend to finish the painting and the stairs which will lead to the roof.

3 "wallpaper" doors will be in the salon de thé, one will lead from the salon to the kitchen through the above mentioned limestone corridor and 2 will lead to the restrooms. Actually these are called "wallpaper doors" in Hungarian. These are the doors which look like the wall itself and can be recognized only when we are close enough. Certainly this is still unpainted. It will be simple white on the corridor's side and fancy on the salon's side.



I have a "wallpaper door" in my own apartment too, as the bathroom was created in the '70s and the door is not a regular one. Beside this there are two holes on the door as the heating system is installed in the bathroom (it uses gas, therefore the holes are mandatory). I painted the door like the wall itself (yes, it is painted, only the separating line was made of wallpaper border).

I hope you like it :)

Orsi

Painted Limestone and More Spy Photos

I spent most of the weekend with gluing together the base walls of the salon de thé, then making holes and channels to the electric wires. Pretty dull activity, I can tell you... then I moved forward to painting the back corridor, what will be limestone. Usually in baroque castles the back corridors and other "service rooms" were covered only limestone, so I decided to paint an aged wall with wet parts at the bottom. It took days, but it was a suitable practice before I start to work on the outer walls. Before I started to paint the wall I tried to look into the future and see how it will look like when it will be finished.
So, here are some spy photos I made using only the shell as background:

The not-so-attractive wall:

Finally the limestone corridor in Petit Trianon (I used this as reference)

See you next week,

Orsi