So I’m finally back from all my national and international travels…and I’ve collected a fair amount of miniatures from various shops I visited along the way.

A Victorian bed set for one of the main bedrooms, along with a leather buckled suitcase:

A crib to add to the nursery, along with a “wicker” rocking chair and a Victorian corner etagere:

A billiard table and cue stand for the billiards room under the eaves:

A medley of goods for the nursery and the parlor:

More accessories for the kitchen and pantry:

And a handful of tiny treasures, including the prettiest little butter pot ever and a tiny thimble and sewing scissors for the sewing room.

I’m off again for a few days, but when I get back, I will get back to work on the house.

Till then…be well.

Back to the floorboards tonight. Went from here…

…to here.

I’ll get it finished, eventually, but it sure is slow progress…

Good night!

So I’m back to working on the floorboards again.

Started like this…

Then some slow, meticulous work…

….to end up…

…here.

Still a long way to go.

For now, goodnight.

Went back to the nursery floor and realized I would need to pull up more of the floor boards (and repaint the sub-floor black) in order to fix the alignment problems…

Drew the design lines and noticed that more of the floor boards were off-kilter…

…so I pulled those up, too.

Drew a grid as the base of the pattern and found out all the boards would need to go…

…so I decided to start fresh from the beginning.

And so I began with a grid in the corner and built from there…

Hopefully it will work better this time…sorry I have no real progress to show in this post. Mostly regression, really.

Good night.

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!