Work on the top hood

Now that most of the bottom of the unit is complete we have started building the hood that goes on top. The basic frame of the hood is made of plywood. Here you can see an early view when we just put it up on top to look at the proportions.

 

Back on the ground we added a top plywood piece and the corner pieces.

The skin is done in 1/2" bendable plywood. Here you can see the hood with one of the sides put on.

The front is almost done...only one more panel to go.

Here is the hood completely skinned and sanded in all of the corners where the two sides meet.

Another test fit on top of the unit to scribe the back portion to the wall to get cut.

We were originally thinking that we were going to paint the top unit the same green as the bottom. But, after seeing it resting in place we thought it would be good to bring in another color. The chosen color is copper. In an effort to make the unit look more like copper we placed some strips on the face with furniture brads. The idea of this is to make it look like a standing seam with rivets. In the picture you can see placing the strips on the first side.

 

Here you can see the whole unit done with the strips. You can also see some sample paints put on it.

 

Here you can see the unit getting primed.

 And the final copper coat put on. The paint turns out really cool and looks like hammered copper but it is very hard to paint because it skins over really fast and starts to separate.

Here are three pictures showing the same corner as wood, primer and copper.