Today I cut out the crown moulding for the sitting room.

Stained it all and glued it onto the ceiling.

Laid the decorative squares in the corners and decided it looked more Victorian that way…so I glued them on.

Then I placed the ceiling onto the room…it fit very tightly, but it fit. Unfortunately, there was a tiny white line between the top of the wallpaper trim and the crown moulding.

I would have added a paper trim to that edge to solve the problem, but the thickness of the paper would have made the ceiling no longer fit. So I painted in the area with matching brown paint.

And placed the ceiling back on.

Then I changed the burnt-out bulb in the light and drilled a hole in the ceiling rosette, so I could string them together and through the hole in the center of the ceiling. They’re not glued on yet, but the effect is there.

I finished a bit more of the wainscoting on the octagonal tower part (still a bit more to do).

And here’s what I have so far.

I’ve changed my mind (yet again) about the outside of the house. I want to cover it with bricks, so that will be added at a later time. And the room needs a round table in the middle of the carpet. But right now, the sitting room looks like a rather cozy, peaceful place to have a cup of tea and knit by the fire.

Good night.

Got some wainscoting pieces in the mail today, so I started in on the wainscoting for the sitting room. Cut out all the pieces I would need.

Stained them.

And glued them onto the wall behind the organ.

Kept going with the little fiddly bits around the fireplace.

And placed the organ back in.

Then I started on the opposite wall.

Forgot that I would have to cut around the window sill trim…and then realized that if I just removed the trim, it would look a lot better. (The smudge of stain under the window sill trim here is because I stain the wall behind the edges of the wainscoting so if there’s a tiny crack, it won’t be as noticeable.)

So I took a razor blade to the trim under the window sill (didn’t I just put that on a couple days ago?)…and added the wainscoting under the double window.

Didn’t get to the tower portion yet, but the rest of the room works pretty well.

Even simulated some morning sunshine peeping in through the windows with the spotlight…

That’s all for today. Good night.

Finished off the ceiling trim tonight.

Placed a few of these decorative squares in the corners…still not sure if I’ll use them or not.

Then I placed it on the sitting room to get the effect.

There will be crown moulding between the ceiling and the walls (I just taped a bit on in these photos to see).

Then I started cutting out the crown moulding, but the corners are complicated and I’m tired and I did them all wrong…

So it’s bedtime for me instead.

By the way, if you’re wondering where my little helper has been these past few days…he got inspired by my house and decided to make a miniature house of his own from a cardboard box.

It’s a summer home for Elsa and Anna and their friends (from Frozen), in the Enchanted Forest.

He even made the table and chairs (the rest of the furniture is old furniture I had no need for). So he’s working happily away on his house, in the same room as I work on mine.

Be well…and good night.

Started out today by putting together a knitting basket for whoever sits in the rocking chair in the sitting room…the thickness of the ‘wool’ may be a bit much, so I may do it again with thinner yarn later.

Then I made some trim for the ceiling edges. The first version was too small.

So I fiddled around and got to this size, which I think may be right.

I was of two minds about using the ceiling paper that went with the wallpaper, but after trying it in, I realized I really liked it.

So I printed and cut out the ceiling paper.

And printed out a sheet of ceiling border…

…and started putting it all together on the ceiling.

Not finished with the border yet. and I haven’t decided where to place the decorative squares (like the ones in the corners of the border), but this is enough for now.

Goodnight.

Not much work done today…not feeling so well. But I did cut out the sitting room ceiling and string the chandelier through it.

And added the lighted kerosene lamp on the table.

The lamp on the table is an LED bulb and quite white light, so I may need to make it more yellow later.

In any case….be well.

Started out by making window trim and window sills for the sitting room windows.

Then I needed to take the windows themselves apart to stain the inside of them.

And I glued in the final tower wall sections.

Then I finished up the wallpaper, and all the window trim and sills.

Didn’t quite make it to the pocket doors, but here’s the room so far.

Here’s looking in from the front hallway.

And a view of the whole front wall.

Still plenty to do, including ceiling, crown moulding, curtains, chandelier, pocket doors, and much more…

But for now, good night.

Worked on more wallpaper today. Also managed to get the paper in the left corner a bit wonky and had to pull it all off, clean up the mess, and replace the paper. (I took photos, as I like to keep a record of my mistakes as well as my successes, but I didn’t realize the camera didn’t have a card in it…)

I also glued the walls in as I went along.

And added trim in the doorways, as well as a door sill and a door jamb in the hallway doorway on the left.

Tomorrow, I will need to finish off the last two tower wall sections, add trim and window sills to the windows, and somehow figure out how to make sliding pocket doors in the entrance to the drawing room on the right (the unstained piece of wood in the doorway is keeping the walls apart the correct thickness, until I can get the doors in…)

But for now, good night.

So today, I put together a design based on a Bradbury and Bradbury wallpaper and frieze.

It took a while for me to get the pattern together right and to scale it correctly. Then I printed a trial copy out on regular paper, and taped it in to get an idea what it would look like.

I liked the results, so I had to find the stiff paper I used to use for printing wallpaper. I printed out a few sheets, cut them out, and glued them on.

Didn’t have time to get very far, but I think I like the look of the room with it up.

I will add trim around the doorway, cut the baseboard correctly. stain and add crown molding, and also stain and add wainscoting above the baseboard.  I may also add a pattern to the ceiling, but for now…good night.

Continued working on the floor boards today. Measuring and cutting…

And staining and gluing…

Until the octagonal corner was finished.

Got about this far when I placed the rug on top, so my little helper could see the final effect before going to bed.

Then, after he left, I finished the entire floor (although I left the final piece for my little helper to stain and glue in tomorrow morning, as promised…) There is one mistake in the floor pattern, but it’s hard to find and it will be under the rug anyway…

So here’s the sitting room with the floor completed:

And here’s a view of the fireplace through a window…

Tomorrow, if it rains as much as today, we’ll start on the wallpaper.

Good night.

Today we measured…and cut…and stained…and glued….

And cut…and stained…and glued some more…

Until we ended up here…

Still a ways to go.

Be well.