I've Been Climbing The Walls

Full Scale: I've been climbing the walls with cabin fever lately... winter in St Louis is a bit overrated.

Small Scale: I've been climbing all over the dollhouse walls, and the wallpapering is DONE!

A reminder - as always, clicking on any picture should bring up a larger version if you'd like to see details... or see just what a shabby job I did in a few places...

First of all, I had to do a little construction

Remember that little closet under the stairs on the first floor?  (if you don't remember, the door to it can be seen in a few of the living room photos in this post) Well I had the brilliant idea a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago to turn it into a half bathroom.  Seriously, if you're kicking back on the couch in the first floor, then you're not going to want to go clear up to the third floor every time you need to use the facilities!  So I had to cut a wall, and thank my lucky stars Dan had already bought a Dremel for the model train... saved me buying a new tool for this project.  Then glue it in and paper it

A toilet under the stairs and a little corner sink at the edge, and it'll be a bathroom!  And yes I saved the door from the closet, and will be putting it on the new wall.  I am not, however, putting doors on all the other rooms.  Just use your imagination.

And now for the rest of the wallpaper photos:

Yes I did cut out all the little holes for those window-like things between rooms.  Badly.  With a dull X-acto knife.  I'm planning to put some trim over the shaggy edges.  Don't judge me until it's done!

No I did not do the same for this room.  I couldn't handle the parents having windows from the staircase into their bedroom.  And while I did briefly consider making "frosted windows" I decided that was way too much work and would probably look crappy so I just papered over the holes.

This paper may be a bit... much... but for some reason as soon as I saw it in the store, I felt compelled to put it in the house.  And I figured the hallway was the only room that wouldn't get furniture, and therefore could handle some... umm... busy?... wallpaper.

And now I need to "re-upholster" the dining room chairs.  They're red.  Red-red.  This wallpaper, while in the red family, is most definitely NOT red-red.  It should be an easy fix though.

(sorry about the glare, that's the only shiny wallpaper)

And with this picture, I begin the preview of what's-yet-to-come.  If you look very closely where the walls and floor meet up (and don't get vertigo from the stripes, I promise it's not that bad in real life) you'll see the beginnings of some trim work.  The third floor, which has odd ceilings and short walls, is getting quarter-round to finish it all off.  Those pieces aren't glued down yet, they're just there for show. 

The first and second floors, with normal ceilings and walls and whatnot, are getting the full treatment though:

Gravity and my right hand are holding those in place right now.  The door casing is a bit hard to see because I haven't stained it yet... or cut it to size, for that matter.  Technically the next step is to put down the rest of the flooring because there's no point in adding baseboards if you don't have a floor!  But you've already seen flooring from the boy's room and the library, so that would make a pretty boring preview.

And now for a bit of randomness.  As I was papering, I got to a point where I had to stop working and clean up my space.  I couldn't find things that I needed and knew I had... 

Entertainment of the day: Red Dwarf (this was before Netflix took it back of the Watch Instantly list.  Grr)

These pictures were actually taken after I had already started to pick up a little.  It was bad.  Ooohh and I should point out, in the first one... that table closest to the camera?  Yep, Dan built that for me so the dollhouse doesn't have to sit on an ancient crappy rickety card table anymore!  Eventually.  Whenever we get around to moving it.  Once I clear a space so we can actually get in there. 

And while I was cleaning, I started finding things that had NO business being in with the dollhouse stuff.

The tally: an unfinished patchwork sampler, random dog leash (my dog hates leashes and on the rare occasions he must be on one, we always use a retractable.  I honestly didn't even remember that I had a red regular leash), a corkscrew (I swear I have no idea why that is there) a pair of pliers that I am not using on the dollhouse, two bottles of bug spray, some chlorine test strips for my pool, a USB cord, and some thread that does not go with the quilt sampler.  Not shown: a Christmas gift bag, and 3 bags of dog treats. 

Actually the dog treats kind of have a reason for being there.  Tyler has a habit of coming downstairs with me, and then whining at me when I pay more attention to the dollhouse than to him.  Luckily the dollhouse is in the room with the walkout, so I've gotten in the habit of leaving that door cracked open so he can come and go as he pleases.  Works out wondefully, he'll go out and run and explore to his little heart's content.  Sometimes for hours at a time (and anyone who knows my dog will understand that "hours" is a miracle for him) which of course leads to worn out puppy:

That's a new level in tired... needing to lay down before he drinks his water! 

And on that note, I should probably give the full-scale house some attention!  It's been neglected while I've been working on miniature house.