{"id":7554,"date":"2014-10-19T23:24:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T06:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=7554"},"modified":"2022-10-30T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:56:32","slug":"spanish-revival-chimney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=7554","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Revival chimney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following the not-so-great roof experience<\/a>, I made a chimney for the Artist’s Cottage and it turned out pretty well. I feel like I’ve redeemed myself. :)<\/p>\n

The reason for the chimney, as you can see here<\/a>, is that the Braxton Payne fireplace<\/a> I bought extends past the roof line. Originally I thought about cutting the top of the fireplace down, but decided that cutting a hole in the roof and enclosing the visible top part with a chimney would be less likely to result in disaster. (Not to mention more realistic!) <\/p>\n

I Googled “spanish revival chimney” and found a bunch of good pictures. The one on the right (from Houzz<\/a>) is the one I kept coming back to. It seemed like it would be easy to create with basswood and moldings.<\/p>\n

When I went to the store to buy my basswood, I forgot to bring measurements with me, so I ended up with pieces not quite wide enough that needed to be glued together.<\/p>\n

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The two long pieces go on the outside of the house.<\/p>\n

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I cut a smaller piece to go on this side.<\/p>\n

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And this last piece finishes the rectangle, with a beveled bottom edge to meet the roof.<\/p>\n

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I left them clamped overnight while the glue dried, and in the morning my chimney looked like this.<\/p>\n

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I had some of the small piece of basswood left over, so I used it to create a “step” on the sides of the chimney.<\/p>\n

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Before gluing them on, I angled the tops of these pieces 45 degrees.<\/p>\n

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While the glue on the small pieces was drying, I moved on to the molding at the top of the chimney. I dug through my stash to find scrap pieces that would work well. This is a small crown (or picture frame?) around the top edge of the chimney.<\/p>\n

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Below it I added a plain, straight piece of basswood.<\/p>\n

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And then, worrying that the crown \/ picture frame perched on top of the chimney wasn’t going to stay put, I added a support piece around the top for the crown to attach to. It looks more finished this way.<\/p>\n

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With the main part of the chimney complete, I brought it outside to stucco and paint.<\/p>\n

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For the stucco I used watered down wood filler and a sponge, just like on the exterior<\/a>. I was careful not to get it on the trim. After it dried and I painted it, I wasn’t completely happy with the look (some basswood seams were showing through), so I did another round of stucco.<\/p>\n

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So far, so good — if you ignore that crooked roof!<\/p>\n

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The inside of the chimney was still open, and I didn’t want it to stay this way for fear of losing things down behind the fireplace. I cut a piece of leftover presentation board to make a “floor”.<\/p>\n

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I glued this in. As an added bonus, there were a few cracks of light showing through where the roof hole isn’t snug against the fireplace neck, and this blocks them.<\/p>\n

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To create the decorative top of the chimney, I planned to glue four posts inside the chimney and add a “hat” on top of them. I made the so-called hat by gluing another style of crown around a basswood rectangle.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the basic idea… a little drunk.<\/p>\n

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I used a scrap of basswood as a guide to glue the posts in at the same height.<\/p>\n

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Then I placed my hat on top to see how it would look. It’s basically like the inspiration picture, but I felt like it lacked some oomph<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I had this little decorative thing out of a block set I’ve been pilfering right angle pieces out of for years (I use them as supports on the undersides of foundations). I liked the concept, but there was something about the sudden transition from right angles to a circle that was bugging me.<\/p>\n

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Then I tried this piece, out of the same block set, which just looked “right” to me. Let’s hear it for never throwing anything away!<\/p>\n

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I glued the block onto the hat and painted it, then moved on to the decorative part that goes between the posts. For this, I used a scrap of gingerbread trim left over from the Gull Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever I came up with for the embellishment on the chimney would also be used for the barrel tiles on the roof. I had two orange-y paints at my disposal: a lighter one named Spiced Chai (shown below), and a darker one named Autumn Leaves. I tried each and then held up the trim next to things that are terra cotta, and wasn’t really satisfied. <\/p>\n

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Looking at a piece of Southwest-like pottery that I’m planning to use somehow with this house (maybe as a planter), I saw that the orange wasn’t just orange, but had some pink to it. This gave me the idea to mix Autumn Leaves with a light pink paint I had lying around.<\/p>\n

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This makes me think of the color you’d get if you mixed ketchup and mayonnaise. (Yuck.)<\/p>\n

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The orange I ended up with is actually very close to some orange clay bricks I have, so it’s a passable shade.<\/p>\n

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But, it’s not close to the red clay bricks I’m planning to use as the floor in the artist’s studio (an addition I haven’t built yet). The studio has a brick foundation that I’m planning to paint with this same paint, so I didn’t want to be too far off from the floor color.<\/p>\n

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Next I tried mixing a darker pink with Autumn Leaves.<\/p>\n

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Though not quite as red as the clay bricks, this combination is closer, and I decided to go with it. Hopefully I’ll be able to reproduce it when it comes time to paint the roof tiles!<\/p>\n

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Gluing in these little pieces was way more finicky than I expected. For the trim pieces to be wedged between the posts, they needed to be set back from the edge of the chimney, which meant I had very little surface to glue onto (just the skinny edges where the sides of the trim touch the posts). I had visions of the trim pieces dislodging and falling into the chimney, where they’d be hard to extract once the chimney hat is attached. <\/p>\n

To resolve this I added horizontal pieces between the posts, for the trim pieces to sit on top of. At least this way they’re glued at the bottom as well as the sides.<\/p>\n

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This took way longer than it should have, but here’s what I ended up with.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I glued the hat piece (now with decorative doodad!) on top of the four posts.<\/p>\n

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Ignoring the crooked roof — which I’m totally going to fix when I add the shingles — I think it looks pretty good!<\/p>\n

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I may add pieces of barrel tile above the bottom piece of trim, as in the inspiration photo. We’ll see once I get around to painting those tiles.<\/p>\n

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Following the not-so-great roof experience<\/a>, I made a chimney for the Artist’s Cottage and it turned out pretty well. I feel like I’ve redeemed myself. :)<\/p>\n

The reason for the chimney is that the Braxton Payne fireplace I bought extends past the roof line. Originally I thought about cutting the top of the fireplace down, but decided that cutting a hole in the roof and enclosing the visible top part with a chimney would be less likely to result in disaster. (Not to mention more realistic!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,48],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-half-scale","tag-spanish-revival-artists-cottage","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19023,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions\/19023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}