More work on the hallway tonight…decided I liked the wainscoting after all.

The pattern is made of several pieces, all of which needed measuring, cutting, staining and gluing…

Had to become a bit creative on the corner piece, as well as with the right-hand wall, so it would fit right…

Added a few details, like a lamp…

…and the doorknob on the nursery door…and then I laid the ceiling on top.

Now this is the funny part–or maybe the part where you’ll think I’m a  little nuts–tomorrow, before I glue the ceiling on permanently, I need to make the final wall for the hallway…which is going to cover up almost all of this except the top of the stairs.

So no one is ever going to see this corner of the hallway…except by peeping around corners through open doors…

Yeah….just a little on the crazy side…but then, if I hadn’t finished it perfectly–even if nobody ever saw it–I would still KNOW it wasn’t finished…and it would bug me forever.

Good night.