More Library Floor

The floor painting is finished. The photo is bad-there are little diamonds in all the corner. I will get a better picture later. Now all I have to do is put contact cement on the bottom of the floor and the top of the doll house floor and stickem together. Next I will put up the tape wiring, put on the ceiling paper, lastly my beautiful paper from Spain. I will have three book cases on each side of the room-I have figured out a design to put on them. The three book cases will be attach to each other and then attached to opposite sides of the front of the room's walls. At the very back of the library will be my Wooten desk and matching chair-THE FOCAL POINT of the room.

The picture to the right infuriates me. This is the living room floor with a BIG crack in it. It took two pieces of floor to cover the whole floor. I was very careful to make sure both pieces of the floor fit together. As life happens, it didn't happen. For some reason the floor was unlevel (earlier post). Me being the resourceful mini person I am, I just filled the crack with wood filler.

The crack is wide in the front and the back and meets in the middle. I am going to take a marker and darken the dried filler up and put the same stain/varnish on the crack. The back crack will fill with the varnish and will eventually be covered by a fireplace. I am crossing my fingers that when I put the stain/varnish on the crack, it won't be noticed. From my lips to God's ears.

Where is the sun???

Kate

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On To The Library

The pictures above are the beginning of the library in the Big House. The door is on the back left side, and there will be three book cases on each side at the front. In the very back I am going to put my Wooten desk and chair. I am going to oper the desk and put all sorts of papers in it.

There is a brown detail on the desk, I decide to put spairingly on the floor. I put blue tape to make the lines in a square. First,I put satin varnish stain where the brown line was going to be so the line edges would be sealed under the tape. After it dried, I put down the brown paint. When that was almost dry I pulled off the tapped. It was PERFECT!!! Boy was I happy. Tomorrow I am going to put the detail on the brown line. I am going to put the floor down as soon as I get some contact cement. Then I will paint pine varnish stain over the floor.

I had to put the livingroom floor down in two pieces. The little gold spot on the right side of the left floor is an electric floor plug for a lamp. I put down the second piece of floor to the right and it was lower than the left floor. So the little pieces of Cherrio's box are being used as shims. I ran out of contact cement and could not put the floor down.

I plan to keep working on the house-no interuptions.

Thanks for looking,

Kate

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Back Working on the BIG House

With my husbands help, I worked on the Big dollhouse. First I hooked all the electricity up on the back wall. All the wall plugs work, even the floor plug. It took 5 hours to do the electricity on the back wall and glue a large portion of the floor down. I was constantly checking to see if the electricity was working. I put the floor down with contact cement-what a job. I could not get the floor over the plug in the floor-finally it worked and the electricity still worked. I am going to start on the mural for the back wall tonight-thats a weeks worth of work. I am hoping to get the livingrooom done by Christmas.

Oh, Happy Thanksgiving to all my followers and readers.

Kate >^^<

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Roto Zip Hole Repair

I needed a hole to put the tape wiring through and I used a roto zip that rippped a BIG hole. Well these are pictures of the repair. The line down the middle is the spacer that is going to make the hole for the tape. There was a problem though. I used wood filler that was old and crumbled when I took out the spacer. I was to impatient to use the good stuff that was reconstituting. So I am going to rerepair the hole. It will look the same, so I won't be sending other pictures.

Kate

The Dollhouse Base is in Place

Ta Da-the base is finished and in place. To the left of the base are boxes of mini things that go in the dollhouse-they will now be stored in the base. The living room will be clean and the coffee table will be put back in its place. My daughter, Michelle, is coming over tomorrow and we are cleaning up the living room. I am so excited about the prospect of being clean. Something else that is great, is the dollhouse is higher and will be much easier to work in. Something that is also great is that I will be able to sleep late for the first time in six days.
Kate
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I See The Light At The End of The Tunnel

Well, I am one coat of primer and two coats of paint from finishing the base for the dollhouse. It is extremely hot here in Texas so I have to get up at 6a to paint or the paint dries in midstroke. It does not help that I have had allergies from heck and can bearly function-I try and not think about it, but the inability to breath reminds me. I think I can finish the painting in the next three days and will let the base bake in the heat to cure. Then, TA DA, I can clean up the living room. I will post a picture of the room before I clean it-it is unbelieveable.
Kate

Still Working

Well, here I am working on the base to the doll house. Slow going. I am using Behr paint and I hate it. What makes matters worse is it is very humid, so I can only paint once a day. But I am staying on schedule. Tomorrow I will put on the second coat and turn it upright Friday and put the last coat on Saturday. I will have to let it dry a few days, then I can bring it in the house. Yea! I will then pick up the BIG house mini stuff and my living room will be clean-finally. Will post again next week.

Kate

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