The I-Hate-Heights-But-This-Was-Fun Fireplace

This fireplace was up there! (Although not as high as the one at Inglewood Golf and Country Club, but I had a scissor lift for that one.) Here is the finished fireplace. That bottom lip of the plaster part is about 5 and a half feet from the ground.

This is the view from the top of the scaffolding. (Yoga breathing helped.)  The arches are about 4 feet above door height.
The progression: before, base layers of plaster, glazing:

Before Just for fun, here's the scaffolding. That's my ten foot ladder.

After the first plaster layer

Second plaster layer

First glaze was too light

Final finish (same as first pic)