Just a quick post tonight…started tearing up the floorboards that were off-kilter in the nursery.

Which tore up most of the black paint under them…so I repainted that part of the floor.

I think next time I’ll start by drawing the pattern on the sub-floor and then I’ll try being a lot more careful when measuring and cutting the wood slats as well as when I line them up and glue them in.

But for now…good night.

Thought I’d take a few minutes to step back and see where I was with the house.

So here’s a 360 degree view of what I have so far in proportion to the room around it (everyone who has seen it in real life has commented on how small it looks compared to the blog photos):

This is where the rest of the house will be hooked up (dining room on the left, back stairs and food pantry on the right, upstairs hallway on top). The nursery will, of course, have another wall to finish it off.

This is where you can really see how the downstairs floor is angled inward and where I had to add slivers of wood to make the second floor level. Luckily the back siding will cover all this and you won’t be able to tell.

Compared with where it was two months ago (https://cider12.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/second-floor-walls/), I feel like I’ve been chugging along pretty well, in spite of a busy work schedule and several trips to Philly.

Now to finish the nursery (it’s still missing a wall, the floor boards, the base boards, the wallpaper trim, and a ceiling) and then I can get to work on the back siding and the rooftop for this section…

Good day!

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.

Back to the upstairs hallway tonight…

I re-sized the wallpaper so it was no longer over-sized as in the old example on the right.

Clipped it on the wall and decided the proportions were right this time.

So I measured all the different wall pieces, cut out holes for the doorways, and glued the pieces all on.

Still playing with the design of the wainscoting, so I held these up against the wall to see what I thought….

Not sure, so maybe I’ll sleep on it tonight and come back to it tomorrow.

And so…good night.

Tonight I put the plates and door knobs on the bathroom door.

Then I took the window frame apart and painted the outside trim…

…and cut, stained, and glued on some inside trim, as well as a windowsill.

Added the window back in…

…and laid the ceiling on top (still needs to be trimmed and glued and painted).

The power strip I want is still on back order, so I can only light one of the lamps up at a time for now…

…but this side of the back of the house is starting to look like a real home.

Good night.

Went back to working on the bathroom walls tonight.

First, I glued in the last dado.

Got the wall tiles and trim ready and put them on, stringing the electrical wires through them.

Got the sliver of tiles done in the corner by the door…

…and added the door trim.

After a lot of wiggling and struggling, I got the wires for the first sconce through the wall and out one of the little holes on the top…

…and then the second one.

Then I glued a tiny piece of foam on the back of the mirror so it would be angled downward when I hung it…

Hung the mirror and put the rest of the bathroom fixtures back in.

I still need to finish the window frame, add a window shade, and glue on the ceiling…

But I’m almost done with this room…

…and it’s fun to create a reflection of an over-sized face in the mirror (I’ll just have to remember to look a little less tired next time…)

Good night.

Added the finishing touches to the linen closet this evening.

First the back plates for the door handles…

Then the door knobs went on and I added more towels and linens…

I added trimming to the sheets and towels, which made them look instantly more refined…

Including the towel in the bathroom…

I will probably add a hatbox or two on that top shelf, but for now, I am officially declaring this tiny room done.

So four rooms down, and eighteen to go…

Good night.

Decided to let the nursery floor problems rest for a little while and went back to the linen closet tonight.

Which looked like this last time I left it…

The bottom shelf liner was too wide, so I started by hemming it so it would fit.

Then I took cardboard from a cookie box to cut and glue the bottom and the lid to a Shaker box.

I also designed and cut out a cardboard box out of a cereal box. I figured every closet has at least one cardboard box in it somewhere…

I painted the Shaker box…

…and after adding a second coat of paint and a couple dots for nails, I placed the boxes on the top shelf.

Next I cut out and stained the other three shelves for the left wall.

Sewed together a lacy shelf-liner for the top shelf on the right…

And made three more liners for the last three shelves, as well as cut out more towels and sheets…

Still need to fill up the shelves on the left, but this room is pretty much done…

And it’s past my bedtime now, so goodnight.