It was a late start, but I began painting the bars over one of the full-sized windows this evening. Those over bedroom windows are hinged and lock and this was one of those, so it was opened and the inside painted first. I moved from there to paint front and back the curly ornamental work that runs down the middle bar. Tomorrow I'll paint the rest of the front. It gave me a chance to figure out how much paint per window (I have one quart, and will probably need two to finish the whole house.) Timing-wise it was getting toward sunset, getting into mosquito activity.

Charmion, how do the stairs look? Was there nice flooring under the carpet on the stairs, or do they need new wood?