More doors and mysterious goings on

If Ramsay House is going to be my life Partner I cannot say that I am rushing the Relationship! 

By the way my computer decides sometimes to put capitals where they have no reason to be!

On Monday (we are thursday) I found yet another reason not to put up walls and decided that I really really needed to make the first floor door frames and doors. It makes sense in the same way that fifth chocolate or third glass of wine makes sense. 

I used the same technique as with the ground floor doors and worked on some 350 gram kraft card to keep everything square and stable. I hesitated between moldings for the top of the doors and chose a gold frame that with lots of difficulty I managed to trim down to the right scale. Sawing this frame gave off a terrible chemical smell, maybe a mask would be a good idea.

The almsot finished frame awaiting its topping.

First coat of gesso/mat paint still on the back board but with the tops on.

This is the process for the doors, same technique as before but with a different design.

A sketch on the piece cut away from the Inside of the door frame base card.

Layers of kraft card as usual over 3 mm mdf ( the backing of an old frame ) then smeared with Poly filler. I decided to buy some new filler as the old pot was so dry, I am mean with materials and squeeze out the last onze.

This time I scraped off the excess filler before it dried to avoid sanding the card as this takes off the surface layer. I used a wet finger to smooth it out.

The end result, door set in frame, two layers of gesso. These doors lead to the first floor bedrooms.

Now here we have the 'mysterious goings on' part ! I wanted to show the difference between the ground floor doors and these first floor ones and as I set in the pair of doors ,,, ooops ! 

No idea what has gone on here. I did not make the two ground floor doors at the same time so the 6 mms came from somewhere ?

You can see the difference in scale as the ground floor has higher ceilings. Each floor has degressively high ceilings as you do in many houses.

But ! How ? Why ?

I have three solutions here, remake the frame, remake the doors, OR cut the frame in two adjsut the pieces and reglue. I have to sleep on it folks. 

Still reeling, really ? 

I then panicked and thought maybe the other frame is also too big, the one I already glued in place.

OUFFF !! Nope all good. 

The other night I decided to paint the doors a different colour to the frames and walls. Maybe a deeper blue grey than the wall colour then give a satin finish. I initially wanted them to be mahogany to stand out so maybe a few more test pieces first. 

Morality, measure then measure again, then re measure and DON'T work at night!

I DID promise to show you my mistakes.