The substantial progress made this past week was overshadowed somewhat by the vandalism incident. Mario the painter finished painting the beams. The color is meant to match the bronze cladding. The original intention was to use a brown similar to the current Eiffel tower color, but we found it a bit too light.
This picture shows the beam closeup before and after sanding and painting.
The ceiling is of maple veneer, stained rather darker than we had intended. It seems David Jameson didn't like our plans for a light colored ceiling, and the panels were finished before we found about the color change. We were concerned about lighting in the teahouse, since all the lights are in the floor and will shine onto the ceiling. So we were dependent on a light colored ceiling to lighten up the space at night. Still the color looks good.
The floors of fir end pieces is not yet sanded and stained. I suspect we'll need to go with a dark color, now that the rest of the room is dark.
How the teahouse looks as of August 29, 2009. The broken glass can be seen to the left of the side door.
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