Today I was mainly tidying up books, getting all our art books onto the upgraded shelves in the lounge, and all my Napoleonic books on the shelves at the top of the apples’n’pears.
Aside from moving books around – I got loads out of our bedroom and into the guest room – I also painted the door of the workshop. It was really because the sill is rotten, and swollen with rainwater. I spent a while yesterday with a hairdryer, drying the sill out, filing it down, drying it again, and then repeating, until it was both pretty dry and the door actually closed. Prior to this it was sticking at the bottom, and I was having to kick the door to open it.
It’s a lovely rich oily paint, and a beautiful colour. I need to let it dry for a few more hours this evening. I’ll shut it before turning in for the night. I might also paint the window frames in this colour. I’ll need to tidy up the blue a bit, as I was rather slapdash with the door and frame, what with painting in the dark!
The sill is in such a sorry state I might cut it out altogether, and insert something better. Perhaps an oaken plank? But at least it’s been painted. In fact I also treated the timber with something for rot… can’t recall exactly what? We’ll have to wait and see if the treatment and paint ‘cure’ it!