BOXING CLEVER ?

 So we needed some parts for the dolls house stairs since appears over the years a few piece got lost! While waiting for them to arrive I asked Paul to make up the box room.

Because I bought this off eBay as a kit, it was easy to put together just needed some wood glue in the groves and then taped up and left overnight to dry.

I had to order some skirting for the room, so went with a large scale and Paul suggested painting it blue to complement the wall paper I had.

Natural I used some of my stock of wallpaper..... not! Because I had seen this wallpaper on Esty and decided it was just perfect and too nice to pass by.

So Paul had fitted the skirting after painting it yesterday and while he started making the stairs up, now the other parts have arrived, I cut the wallpaper to size.

For some reason each piece of wallpaper had a white border round it , probably where it had been printed which made it a pain as I then had to remove the white sections trying to keep the lines nice and straight. Plus the wallpaper was not wide enough to cover the whole of the back wall so I had to cut a section to match the pattern! again trying to keep the lines straight!

I'd like to say I had help laying the carpet but he just cleaned up the off cuts. I did however use this piece of blue carpet that I bought along with most other things back in 2004. It was still lovely and sticky, unfortunately again not quite long enough to completely cover the floor but luckily the offcut on the depth was enough to fill the gap at the edge. With just what was left being held by the cleaner.

I've really pleased that the joint in the wallpaper worked well and also the carpet.

So once it's all nice and dry ( wallpaper) I will set it up in the studio, of course I had to have a little play with a few of my furniture pieces.

I see the wallpaper suiting a bedroom, so tried these items.

Of course a different mirror would be needed.

I also tried some living room furniture in the room but think it's more suited to a bedroom.

So The room box is complete just took three and a half years to take out the packed and a few days to make up.... but hey! That's another job off the list!

Today is Clara's fifth birthday! Five! where has the time gone! 

GETTING CLOSER

 The dolls house is getting closer to the finish line! 

A few days back, we had to remove the ceiling roses we had put in years back because they had a small metal hook in the centre, which now times moved on, we didn't need. However we could not just pull the very small hook off because it was embedded in the plaster, so ripped a hole across the first one we tried. So I asked Paul to remove the two ceiling roses in the downstairs rooms and went online and ordered two replacements, I also decided to get two smaller ones for the bedrooms.

These new ones, also have a hole in the centre perfect for adding in the light fitting. So yesterday Paul replaced all the ceiling roses, we left them overnight to dry and then today we fitted the lights.

I picked a nice fancy one for the main room.

The bedroom ones are smaller in size but have the hole for the light fitting.

A fancier oe for the main bedroom. Now these upstairs rooms will have to have lights with LED's that turn on and off on the light due to the fact I totally forgot in my eagerness to lay the flooring in that attic that there is now nowhere to lay the cable to the back of the house. 

Now the lights are in downstairs, I could fit the flooring, so that's all now done.

When I found all my old dolls house items, I also found a door knocker and a letter box. The letterbox was one that could operate, which would have meant cutting a hole in the front door but Paul reminded me that there was a nice brass knob shaped handle which was meant to go in the middle of the door where a letterbox would have been. So I opted to use the handle with the knocker.

So they have been fitted and while we were doing that we have also fitted the window perspex but have left the shaded covering on the inside to remove once it's all finished apart from in the attic as the perspex goes between the window and a frame behind to keep it in place.

The roof top and sides have had a coat of dark grey paint to match the front tiles. Now just the house sides need a coat or two of pale grey to match the front. Then it's just the stairs left to put in and a decent catch for the front to keep it in place!

So almost at the finishing line....