So starting from here…

…I cut out many more floor boards to continue the pattern. But when I laid them down, I realized the pattern was off a little and the cracks between the boards were getting awfully big on the left-hand side.

So I pulled them all back up. This means tomorrow I will have to do a lot of custom fitting to get this pattern to work right…..sigh.

Too tired to solve the problem now.

And so, good night…

Tonight I started like this…

…and added this.

Stained and glued them…

Made more…

Stained and glued those…

Then decided to call it a night.

Amazing how much time these little pieces of wood can take…

Good night.

Tonight I went back to work on the nursery floor.  First, I finished the trim boards and glued them all in.

Next, I started cutting out several little boards–each 3/8″ X 9/8″–to make the herringbone pattern.

After I got about thirty of them done, I sanded and stained them all…

…and placed them on the floor.

It’ll take quite a while to finish this floor, but I think it’ll be worth it in the end.

At least I hope so…

Good night.

I started out tonight by taking apart the nursery door…

…so I could put it back together with the door opening on the other side.

Then, after having glued the hallway stairs and floor into place, I cut out the inside and outside doorway walls for the nursery…which required a lot of readjusting and fiddling along the way.

Finally, I had both doorways glued in and could put the door in place.

I painted the nursery floor black, because then if there are any cracks between the floor boards, they will look more natural.

And I stained the door and door-frame (I still need to stain the two window-frames the same tint).

Next I started to cut out and stain the boards for the outside trim of the floor.

Haven’t gotten very far but it’s bedtime now…

…so goodnight.

Sometimes you spend hours working on something that looks like very little progress in the end. Tonight was one of those times…

Since I was dealing with uneven floor issues (left over from earlier leveling problems), it took quite a while to glue in the north wall of the nursery correctly…and then to wallpaper it in such a way as to cover whatever issues were left.

I’m not a hundred percent sure I like my wallpaper seam on the back wall, but I’m too tired to try again…

I also started cutting out tiny floor boards that will eventually make up the pattern I found in this photo.

But for now, here is the east side of the house.

And here is the nursery table…complete with Aesop’s Fables, a sheet of tiny paper dolls, and a set of eyeglasses for the governess.

Good night.

Spent a bit of time today on the nursery chimney and fireplace. Made the walls for the chimney first.

And attached them to the outside wall with the fireplace wires passing through the two walls.

Then I placed the walls and the fireplace into the room and set a model ship on the mantel piece.

Reminded me of Neil Finn’s song lyrics:

“Well there’s a small boat made of china
It’s going nowhere on the mantelpiece…”

Here’s this side of the house for now.

I took the wallpaper I was planning on using and modified the size to print it.

The wall part looked right, so I glued it on, but the swan trim is too big (for that matter, so is the wallpaper I leaned up against the hallway wall…it’s hard to predict the way it’ll turn out when you’re using photoshop). I’ll have to try again tomorrow.

Slow going, I know, but for now….good night.