It's Aliiiiiiiiiiiiiive

I bet you all thought I'd forgotten about this, didn't you?  I find your lack of faith disturbing* (bonus points to anyone who gets the movie quotes in this mad rambling)  Summer hit with a vengeance, and I decided that the dollhouse can be worked on any time, but my swimming pool is only useful for a couple months out of the year.  And then swimming season gave way to traveling season, and traveling season changed into social month.  Winter changed into spring.  Spring changed into summer.  Summer changed back into winter.  And winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight on into autumn.  Until one day...**

I came back to the dollhouse project! 

I started "installing flooring" (also known as gluing down paper)

and I used almost all of the sheets I had already drawn lines on.  And that was almost a third of what I bought.  I just hope I don't run out of paper! 

I also stained all my pretty new woodwork

You'll get to see more close-ups as it goes into the dollhouse.

I finally glued in the third floor wall and attic floor

And when you fail at overcoming gravity while waiting for glue to dry, why not use the glue bottle to prop the board into place?  Also, if that lightbulb up in the attic ever burns out, I think it's just going to stay burned out forever.  It's even more cramped up there than this picture indicates. 

And now, dear readers, I share with you a bit of a thought process.  I logically waited until after I got all that flooring glued in to stain the trim.  Logically.  Because I'm brilliant.  Err... umm... then I realized that...

I really don't like how pinky-gray the floor looks next to the oak-stained trim.  It looks even worse in real life, but it's hard to get the color balance right on a phot when you have three different kinds of lighting hitting your subject.  Hmm... what to do...

Stain the paper!

What do you think?  The floors and the baseboards still won't be exactly the same color, but I think it looks a lot better with the paper stained.  Don't you?  I need to cross my fingers REALLY HARD and hope that I didn't get too much glue on the top of the papers I've already put in place. Stain doesn't soak into glue.  That's the reason that I logically should have done the staining before I did the gluing.

Next up: figure out how to miter the corners.  Mostly, figure out how to do it without buying expensive equipment.   

Answers to the movie quiz:
*Star Wars (the first Star Wars movie... one of two good things to happen in 1977... the other being my birth)
**Monty Python and the Holy Grail
***That was actually a freeze-frame from an old episode of The Muppet Show, circa 1976.  Dan and I made plans to see the new Muppets movie last weekend, so I had Netflix send me a little sumpthin to put me in the mood.  Also, the movie was really good.  It started out a bit slow, but once all the Muppets showed up, nostalgia and over-the-top silliness led to a good hour of happiness!

And I just realized that this whole post was apparently brought to you by the 1970s (Holy Grail is from '74)  Peace!