And welcome to Jenny too

Hi Jenny, welcome and thank you for becoming my newest follower on this blog.  I hope you had the time to have a bit of a look around and that you enjoyed what you saw.  Please do come again.  I found Jenny's blog (http://jennsminis.wordpress.com/category/half-inch-scale) when a friend, Esther, gave me the link, saying she had found another Fairfield link.  I loved what I saw so much that I had to go right back to the

beginning of the posts about Jenny's Fairfield and I read all the way through to the newest post.  Then I spent ages looking (and yes, I did leave comments) at posts about other projects.  

Jenny does lovely work and her finished projects are simply beautiful - she adds lots of accessories that really add realism to her rooms.  I must learn from the example of people who do this, to give my projects more charm.  So far I have often neglected this aspect because I have moved on to other projects.  And only going to a miniature show once a year (or once every few years lately), I am not being exposed to those little extras that you see at fairs and just know that they belong to a particular scene.  I hope I will get to next year's fair - the ferry from Tasmania arrives in Melbourne on 1st May (early in the morning) and it is around a 10 hour drive if you don't take a break, from Melbourne to Sydney.   It will take us two days, towing the caravan and taking brief breaks for lunch etc.  Peter and I will alternate driving, doing stretches of 2 hours each.  The Sydney fair is on 3rd & 4th May, with setup taking place on 2nd May if you are displaying.  Hmmmmm.

And welcome to some more new followers

Thank you Elizabeth, Diva and De for signing up as followers to this blog.  I recognize some of your names from my main blog and I'm delighted that you've joined here too.

Elizabeth's blog about her Arthur is a must-read (www.studioeminiatures.blogspot.com.au).  I am particularly fascinated because my poor Arthur which was nearly completed was trashed in storage and will need to be totally re-vamped when I am in my studio and have the room to do it.  It has turned out for the better though because it will be totally different from what it originally was and reading blogs like Elizabeth's gives me so much inspiration.  She has a talent for making the most wonderful authentic-looking items from bits of nothing

Quarter scale baby shelves 

De's latest post is a great interview with Dr Bindy (http://delightfulminis.blogspot.com.au) whose field of interest in miniatures overlaps ours.  He customizes GI Joe figures to make entirely new characters and is very skilled at doing so.  I smiled when I read that he put away his figures because they were taking up too much room, and started with smaller figures which now take up even more space - because I started on quarter scale houses because they wouldn't take up so much room and now I have so many that they take up more space than my 1/12th scale ones do lol!  I love the stonework on the shop that De is building.  She has achieved such subtle variations in the colours and made it look so natural.

Diva - you don't give a blog. Please let me know if you do have one, I'd love to return the favour and become a follower of yours too.

Once again I want to say how much I appreciate you all, my followers.  And your comments.  Without the interaction between you who are reading and myself, what is the point of posting at all?  And the feedback you give provides such a boost of energy and enthusiasm that it can't be measures.  So I thank you all!

So happy to see you here

1:48 Town Square - Dickens Toy Shop

I've been gone a while I know.  Once we returned from Grey Nomads camp we were back into trying to finish off my studio (do please have a look here ) and all efforts are going into that.  The Fairfield was put into its perspex case to keep it safe while we were away so it is hard to get to it now and I have packed up all my tools and equipment ready to move them into the studio.  You can imagine how impatient I am to get them out and start working on it again!  And yes, I am being very good and not going on with something else in the meantime which would be my usual strategy and why I have so many UFOs :-)

But having a look at the blog this morning I see that some new followers have joined - thank you so very much and welcome, welcome, welcome!
CrisColas - I enjoyed browsing your sales blogs but couldn't access your other blog since it is by invitation only.
'PontesPontes'- is an interesting name.  I put it into Google translate and it came out as Bridges, Bridges.  You don't list a blog - please let me know if you do have one.
Agnieszka - has a blog http://miniatureavenue.blogspot.com.au which showcases her marvellous figures.  Agnieszka has been features in the UK magazine Dollhouse and Miniature Scene and she certainly deserves the tribute to her skill as an artisan.  I started to read your blog Agnieszka and was so engrossed that I read right through to the beginning!  I am fascinated by your enchanting figures and just blown away by your talent.
Doortje - has a blog http://rdoortjesminis.blogspot.com.au and at the moment she is making beautiful items for her lavender shop.  Doortje your shop will be filled with gorgeous goodies.  I love lavender and in fact have just planted two of them outside my studio.  Entering a RL lavender shop is an experience I really enjoy  and the variety of goodies you can fill your shop with is almost endless.

I am so happy that you have all chosen to follow this blog and I hope you will visit often and leave comments with suggestions, constructive criticism or encouragement as I continue my halfscale journey with the Fairfield and other halfscale projects.  I really appreciate and value comments of all kinds.

We interrupt this programme......

for a very important announcement! Work on the Fairfield has come to a halt for a short time.  To see why, click here .  Please come and visit and leave a comment - it's great to have 'company'!

Some bits for the bathroom

I'ts fun to add some little bits that bring those empty rooms to life, isn't it?  I have thought long and hard about how to store things in the bathroom and couldn't find anything much on the internet.  I searched through my odds and ends and came up with some balsa wood and some 18ct Aida cloth.  I fiddled around and made this little shelf unit that fits beside the handbasin.  It's made from the balsa wood, covered with the aida cloth and trimmed with strands of thread from the aida cloth plaited together.  Then the whole thing is painted with Regency White paint, to match the trims.  I made little toilet rolls from strips cut from Kleenex tissues, and put those on the bottom shelf, then cut towels from some baby wash cloths to fill the top two shelves.  I also cut a couple of towels, hand towels and a mat from the blue wash cloth but don't have anything to hang the towels from yet.  I'll need to search through my jewellery findings to see if I have something suitable to use to make towel racks and rings from.  At the moment I just have them draped over the bath and handbasin.

I'm not sure whether the baby wash cloths are too out-of-scale for this house.  What do you think?

Side view of shelves

Showing contents of shelves

I won't be leaving the shelves in this position, blocking the handbasin.  They'll sit on the other side, but I do think they are a necessary item in the bathroom.  Actually when it is on the other side of the hand basin you won't see the toilet rolls very well, which is a shame after all the work I put into them - I'll probably have to make some more of them :)

Now I need a wall unit of some kind, or something to hold toothbrushes, deodorant, bandaids etc.  And a little shelf near the bath for soap and bottles.

I've also made some shelves for the pantry; just waiting now for some items I've ordered to arrive, plus I have some printies to make up.  I already have some cans to put in but want to wait and put things in once I have more items.

And I've made some books for the book shelves - photos of those will come later.

Please do tell me what you think about the towels.  The ones in the shelves won't be too visible once they are put on the other side of the hand basin but the others will be.

The journey hasn't ended nevertheless!

It's time to bring you up to date on progress before this silly bronchitis interfered with things.   I decided to concentrate on the kitchen, first of all adding the handle to the door.  Then I worked on the kitchen sink unit, putting the tap on and the little edging on the shelves at the side.   So for the fair I would have had the kitchen basically finished except for the pantry.

The tiles behind the stove section are actually white, though they look blue in this photo.

Starting on the accessories, I made two cookbooks.  I'm not sure whether they'll go on the little shelves beside the sink or on the small shelf beside the stove bench on the other side of the room.  These are readable books, with each of their pages having recipes on them.

Fortunately when I went googling for a calendar I quickly found one that suited the room really well.  It took a bit of experimentation to print it out small enough but I got there.  I have it showing the month of May 2013 since that will be the month it was meant to be completed - maybe I'll remove that page and leave it for the month it does get finished.

No kitchen is complete without some kitchen utensils and here they are

And two cutting boards from a set of 3 (from sdk miniatures).

And a breadbox (kit from mj miniatures)

There is a pewter kettle but I'm looking for one with a more modern profile.  And I have some pretty crockery to fill the cupboards and the kitchen is complete except for the cornices.  The pantry will have shelves filled with some groceries - I would have put a door on it and kept it closed for the fair but now will go ahead and do it properly.

The bathroom suite arrived on the Thursday before the Fair.  Below are all the things in place - rather a tight fit in such a tiny space.  This is the best arrangement I could come up with, if I didn't want the toilet right opposite the doorway, which I don't like.  There is just enough room for a mirror on the wall, maybe a little shelf for toiletries, and a small rack for towels.

Since then I have made a little toilet roll, winding some facial tissue around a piece of wire then inserting it into a small piece of balsa that I shaped and painted.  That was the easy part - getting it to stick to the wall was the hard part, and it became quite squashed while I held it until the super glue took hold.  But it has resumed most of its shape now.

The lights for the attic floor bedrooms didn't arrive until the Thursday either, so they have not been installed yet.

I made a camellia bush for outside the lounge room bay window.  I wanted it to be taller than usually results from planting the stems directly into the soil, so I made an armature from wires as though I was making a tree.  I covered the trunk of this armature with texture paste, and when that was dry I painted it with a couple of shades of brown. Then I started adding the branches of leaves and flowers that I had previously assembled from kits that I bought from sdk miniatures.  I hooked the ends of the wires around the trunk and stuck them (and me) with superglue.  In this photo you can see the start of this process.

After putting on a few of the leaves I decided to space out the flowers and buds first, and see how many extra leaf branches I would need to make up from another kit that I had.

Being so much larger than the usual bush I expected it to take extra kits and extra leaf pages, and of course it did.  But I am really happy with the results.

It's not quite as tall as I would have liked at first, just 4 inches from the roots to the very top, but I went for a good thickness of branches and flowers rather than spread them out for extra height.

While I've been so ill I haven't been able to do anything that requires much effort so when I can I've also been making an hydrangea bush.  I used two kits to do this one because again I wanted a fairly substantial shrub rather than two smaller ones.

Each of these flowers are made up of around 25 little florets, measuring about 1mm before you rub them with the little ball tool on the mouse pad.  This makes them even tinier - about 0.5mm, and they are glued all around the small bead that has been glued to the wire beforehand.  You can see one of the petals/florets on my finger below, and I am holding a flower in progress of construction.

And here is the completed bush.  It measures 3 1/2 inches across.

 I went to the doctor again today because I'm still not improving much.  I don't see this house being finished completely before the end of June, if you consider cornices, skirting boards and shingling are all pretty big jobs..  Then there are the curtains.  I have bought a lot of the furniture and have some of the accessories but there are quite a lot of accessories still required.

Welcome Hannah and Sandi

... to the halfscale Fairfield blog!  I am so happy that you decided to join us here.  I hope you'll visit often and leave lots of comments to encourage me along the way.  I depend on my online friends for feedback because    apart from my son, none of my family are in the least bit interested and with Nathan it is more a matter of helping by doing 90% rather than working alongside him.

Hannah, you don't list a blog.  Do you have one?  If so, please let me know.

Sandie has a blog called whimsycottageminis.blogspot.com.au and sells some great miniature fabric of her own design.  I have bought some on Etsy from her, to use in the Fairfield and in other mini projects.  Her designs were in 1:12th scale but she reduced some of them to 1:24th scale for me and has added these to her range.  This is the halfscale version of the ladybug quilt set for the girl's room.

I have a selection of the 'Trucks' fabrics for a boy's room, for covers and cushions.

And this gorgeous blue fabric with a white lattice pattern is actually the 1:12th scale version but it is small enough to use in half scale and probably even in quarter scale projects.  I will be using this fabric to upholster a lounge suite and make curtains.

I am really sorry that the lovely blue of this fabric doesn't show to its best effect in this photo - it is such a pretty colour.

Do visit WhimsyCottageMinis on Etsy and see what Sandi has for sale, and also visit her blog - she is a talented miniaturist as well.

The Fates have taken a hand.....

....and everything has come to a standstill.  Yes, the last of the lights arrived yesterday (Thursday); the bathroom fittings also arrived yesterday.  But I have been quite unwell since Tuesday afternoon and it turns out that I have a lovely little chest infection going.  I can hardly see through my runny eyes to focus, and the infection is making me so tired that I am sleeping much of the time.  

It's very disappointing, more because my son's toy shop isn't finished either in spite of our promises that it would be.  He was so looking forward to exhibiting for the first time, and is pretty devastated.  I'm not even sure that I'll get to the Fair on Sunday to buy anything, and I don't know whether he will either :(

We'll both be continuing with our projects until they are finished though, and we might be able to exhibit them next year if the dates are okay.  

So keep tuned, there'll soon be lots more to see - I'm hoping to be able to see well enough to finish my camellia bush over the next few days.  It's quite different from the usual way of doing it because I've done a tree scaffold for it to make it much taller than usual.  Hopefully it will work out!

Countdown - 4 days to go

This would have to be one of the most frustrating days I have ever had!  For the last few days I have been receiving notifications that my email storage was over quota.  I spent hours and hours last week deleting and deleting several thousand emails but still the notices kept coming in.  The notice said that it would take a minimum of 48 hours turnaround after getting emails from my provider, but it was way past that.  So finally I uninstalled the email program and reinstalled it and the emails started coming in - nearly 10,200 of them!!!  And that is just the ones since January this year.  So as they came in I deleted.  And deleted.  And deleted.  I kept going, keeping fewer than 500 of them that I could see were necessary to keep.  Of course all the emails that I had read and marked to keep from the previous program are now lost forever, as far as I can work out.  My contacts are also lost unless they are on the new emails. I had been transferring saved emails to documents and moving them to files but it was far too slow and now they're gone.

That was bad enough but by the time my inbox was empty it was 7pm and I hadn't done a thing on the Fairfield the whole day.  I just couldn't leave it at that, I had to go to bed knowing that something had been achieved, even though it has set me back seriously.

There aren't any photos, sorry about that.  I did take them but my download cord had disappeared in the mess - I will get more organised tomorrow but I'm just too tired tonight.  It's late, I didn't sleep well last night and it's been a tiring day.

I did get the windows painted as I mentioned yesterday.  The finish isn't as good as I would like except for the kitchen, which I did before installing the windows but that's just too bad at this stage.  I've installed the kitchen windows and the trim on the bay window.

And I've also put all the doorknobs on the doors.  That was a real business!  They are too small for even the pointiest of tweezers to hold, and tend to go flying off into space at the least excuse.  The plastic glue that I used doesn't want to keep them in place - I only hope it becomes more solid overnight.

I've gone ahead and installed the bathroom door and the door trim that came with the kit.  I'm not going to risk waiting for the trim timber to come, because it won't leave me enough time to do anything with it now and these trims are already painted and prepared even if they are not the best of fits.

I've also remade the hearths for the dining and living room fireplaces, covered them with the vinyl brick and edged them with wood trim.  And I've closed over the fireplaces in the first floor bedrooms to make more room for furniture in the main bedroom.  I want the dressing table to be able to be seen and if I put it against the chimney wall it can be seen to better advantage than if it is put in the corner with its back half turned to view.

So that's it for tonight.  Again, I'm sorry about the lack of photos - I'll straighten up tomorrow morning and hopefully the cord will turn up.  When it does I'll do a post with the photos.

I have a strong feeling though that I won't be exhibiting this house at the fair!

Countdown - 5 days to go......

....to the Sydney Fair, when I will be exhibiting the Fairfield.  That's if I count Friday, but all I have on Friday is the morning.  We need to leave by 4pm to take our buildings to the Olympic Exhibition Centre at Homebush to set them up for display over the weekend.

So what have I been doing in the last few days?

First I've finished adding the trim to the windows:

And spent ages doing the edges of the window frames with woodfiller to smooth out the different layers.  By the time you have the interior wall, the cladding and the exterior trim, it is very uneven and unattractive.  So I smoothed it out and will paint it tomorrow.  Bit of advice here:  it would be much easier to do this before the interior windows are installed, to avoid scratching or damage to the delicate  acetate windows.  Guess how I know this!

As mentioned before I needed to re-wallpaper the first floor hallway, and I did that last night.  It's still so messy inside the hallway, lots to do there still but I feel better that at least it is re-papered.

I also spent ages struggling with the wallpaper in  the attic landing.  All the awkward angles and shapes made this just as difficult as I thought it would be, if not more.  I'm not at all happy with the result and went to bed quite disheartened because the quality of the work wasn't what I like to do.  I need to put a trim over the edge of the l-shaped part you can see on the left of the triangular wall to the spare room.

Today I put wallpaper in the kitchen.  I didn't completely cover the walls because the cabinets will cover a lot of the area and there will be tiles between the upper and lower cabinets.  After painting the woodfiller in the  kitchen window openings (windows not yet installed) I will be able tomorrow to go ahead and install them, and add the trim to the arch in front of the bay window.

And a lot of today was spent painting the 5 doors that I have for now, ready to install them.  It took five coats to cover the grey plastic well with the Regency White paint - the cream would seem to cover when it was wet then as it dried you could see a grey shadow through the cream.  I am hoping that the timber trim I have ordered will arrive in time.  If it is not here in a day or so I will use the trims supplied - or I might use them anyway.

I've also added the trim to the arches on the entrance and the bay window in the living room and to the arch in the dining room leading to the kitchen.

Still lots to do!  Will I get it done in time to exhibit it?

Welcome Audra, Isobel & Hannah

Honeysuckle Cottage.  Kit from Sue Heber

Thank you all for joining as Followers of the blog.  It is very encouraging and I am grateful to all of you who become followers, read the blog and offer encouragement by leaving comments.  You all mean a lot to me - very much indeed.

Audra and Hannah, you don't list a blog - please let me know if you do have one.  Isobel has posted about welding on her blog her blog- I am envious of her creativity!  The beauty of miniatures as a hobby is that there is scope for every other sphere of artistic expression you can think of, done in miniature.

So our numbers are slowly increasing, not nearly as many as my main blog but increasing nevertheless.  And I do appreciate that you have made the effort to join.

Now the house can 'see'!

What a difference it makes to add the windows!  It seems to give 'life' to the house in a way that nothing else does.  It is as though the house can see now.  Most of the windows are now in, except the tower and kitchen windows.  The exterior frames are on but I still need to add the 'eyebrows' over the top of the windows and the supports under the sills.  I have discarded the ones supplied in the kit because they are too clunky, and substituted finer ones that I've made myself.

Tomorrow I'll do the last of the windows.  Looking at the photo I've just noticed that the one in the side of the tower is crooked - what a nuisance!

I've also made up a kit of camellia flowers, and painted the leaves ready to make a nice shrub for the side of the living room bay window.

The extra wallpaper for the hallways arrived today so I can get in and re-do the first floor hallway and do the attic hallway too.  Then I'll be able to do the boy's room once the attic is done - I have to leave the rear wall of the boy's room loose to reach the fiddly walls in the attic hallway first.

It's just over a week now to the fair.  There are a lot of fiddly details to finish off.  The sort of things that take  time to do but don't look like much when done.  But if you don't do them then it doesn't look properly finished.  So I don't know how much time I'll have to do any accessories for inside the house unfortunately.  But never mind, it is a work in process I guess.

Thank you so very much for your interest.  I do hope you'll leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Welcome to five more friends

It is a real pleasure to welcome Alisa, Christine, Shelby-Fay, Kundry's Miniworld and Natalia who have really made my week by joining this blog.

Alisa doesn't have a blog, Shelby-Fay and Kundry's Miniworld don't list one.  If you do have one please let me know.

Natalia  has several blogs, including one on which she shows her clever work with a scrollsaw  http://memyselfandscrollsaw.blogspot.com.au   I do admire you people who can create lovely things using those tricky machines!

Christine claims she has the slowest dollhouse build in blogland but I'm sure that's not true.  Her delightful blog is about Hollyhock Cottage, set in the 1940's  http://postwarthatchedcottage.blogspot.com.au   You squeezed in a March post Christine - nearly time for an April post :)!

I have been trying to get a good amount on the Fairfield finished to show you all but came up against some  unexpected problems.  However I hope to have them fixed by tomorrow so I can update you soon.
Until then

It's starting to look quite pretty now

Well I've realized that people aren't as interested in this little half scale house as they are in my quarter scale ones.  Or perhaps it's just the way I'm doing this little half scale house?  Anyway, for the few people who do seem to be interested I'll continue posting.  And it is a good motivation for me anyway to keep going so that I have something to show you.

I'm really happy to have reached the stage where I can get stuck into the interior decoration. Thursday a week ago I wallpapered the nursery.  This is a sweet paper called 'Crayon' with soft lines in pink, blue and yellow.

I also re-papered the living room - I just knew I wouldn't be able to live with that glue mark on the wall!  I'm much happier now.  And it makes such a difference to have the trim on the arch from the foyer and the bay window.  This pretty paper is called 'Conservatory'.

You might be able to see in the photo above that I did the hearths with some latex bricks, glued on with Weldbond.  It took a long time to dry properly but when it was dry I trimmed them to fit into their respective fireplace openings.  Peter and I drilled holes in the hearths and finally fed the wires down through the chimney - Pete worked out how to get them down past the areas that were giving me problems.   The fireplace fronts arrived later that day which was exciting.  I painted them but I'm not happy with the effect but it has become obvious that the hearths are in fact too narrow once the fronts are on.  So now there is some alteration to be done, after all that work.

I also put cladding on the tower, so it looks much better now.
On Thursday night I spent time 'planting' the flowers I had made whilst away for our Anniversary break. Here are the pink geraniums in their hanging basket.

And here are some of the carnations.  I have some more to make up in various shades of lighter pink.  They will all be mixed together in a bed.  On the outside of the bed will be a row of smaller plants - probably little blue Felicia daisies.

On Friday
More wallpapering was on the agenda but in the end I only got the main bedroom done.  This is a Lydia Pickett paper, called Cottage Rose.

Most of the time available was spent on the wall into the tower room, putting wood filler on the wall in the girl's room and tidying up messy bits in the second (attic) floor foyer.  When it was dry and sanded I was able to get a coat of white on it all.

More excitement on Friday when a huge box arrived from Homes In Miniature, a UK store that specializes in 1:24th scale furniture.  I only ordered the goods a week ago so am very pleased at the speed with which they arrived.  The box held a selection of handmade hardwood bedroom furniture, tables, chests and a Bespaq lounge suite as well as lighting and a stair kit.  A second box from Susan Karatjas of sdk miniatures also arrived.  This held more flower kits and lots more furniture kits.

I started painting the stairs, balusters and spindles. I will be pleased to re-paper the 1st and 2nd floor hallways and put the staircase in.  And guess what?  I've ordered more spindles and balusters - I think I'll be butchering the staircase in the foyer too and changing the ones there!  Never one to do things the easy way.

Saturday night
I fiddled with the girls' room - again!  Made the rear wall taller which of course makes the room a bit smaller.    I also made the boy's rear wall  (right bedroom) join up with the extended part of the roof.  But I wasn't happy with that so ripped out the part I had glued into the roof on Sunday morning.  Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I spent helping Nathan with his toy shop.  But on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings I made up some of the furniture kits from sdk miniatures.

For the girl's room I made up this set of furniture, though I don't know whether it will be used in this house - I have also ordered a set of white ready-made bedroom furniture.  The door will probably be glued slightly open so that you can see some clothing inside, so I haven't glued it on yet.  I haven't finished painting the drawers or filling them so they aren't pushed in completely either.

One set for the boy's room though it won't used in this house.  The room is very small for this furniture and even if I swapped the girl's and boy's rooms it would still be too close a fit.  I also have a second set of bedroom furniture for the boy's room that is a possibility though I haven't made it up yet.

On Wednesday this week I made the wall higher in the boy's room, and adjusted the side wall to fit.  The room is even smaller now but I'm happier with its appearance from the opposite (hallway) side.

With all this messing around I've used up the wallpaper I bought for the hallway including the extra couple of sheets.  I've ordered some more and hopefully it will come in the next week or so.

Each change, addition of short walls against sloping ceilings, adjustments in the attic 'foyer' area etc has of course involved filling with wood filler, sanding and often filling again.  Then sanding, painting with a couple of coats of white undercoat etc.

The staircase took a surprising length of time to adjust the length to the size for this house, paint the staircase, treads, spindles, railings, and newel posts.  It looks nice assembled but still needs the railing length adjusted and the newel posts added.  I also made two sets lots of spindles and railings to make the opening safe on the landing so that my mini people won't fall and break their necks.

Thursday
This Thursday was a good productive day.  I tiled the kitchen floor,and changed the light to a different shade.  I'm keeping the round globe shades for the bedrooms if I can install them on the sloping ceiling by putting them on a wedge or something without them looking odd..

The bathroom is now tiled on both the floor and walls as well, and the light installed there too.  The walls are white and the floor is grey with a touch of blue.

The wallpaper is up in the dining room - I love this design.  I printed it out from a book of printable wallpapers I bought.  The blue isn't as dark as this.  No matter what I do I can't get it to photograph the right colour.

Friday
The spare room is now also wallpapered. I took the border off the top of the paper and put it across the top of the straight wall.  Otherwise it wouldn't be seen with the roof on.

And the tower room is partly done as well.  I need to install the sconce light on the wall before I can do the final wall.  This is also a printable wallpaper.

The girl's room is done in two papers, both of them quarter scale papers from Robin Betterley.  The lower part is done in 'Sweetie Pie Light Pink Stripe' and the top is done in 'Sweetie Pie Sponged'.  I am looking for something suitable to put as a border along the join.  It looks so pretty!

That just leaves the boy's room, attic hallway and foyer to paper now.  The attic and hallway are full of funny angles and corners and will be very wallpaper hungry.  And of course the 1st floor hallway to re-paper.

Sorry about all the messy bits in the photos.  There wasn't time to pretty everything up beforehand today.  I needed to do some tidying up of my work area and other parts of the house - as much as I could.

I am really looking forward to adding the windows and their frames now.  They really give the rooms a finished look though of course there's still heaps to do - all the wallpaper needs proper trimming up, then there's adding skirting boards, cornices and  fireplaces.

But I couldn't resist putting furniture into the rooms to have a taste of what it will look like.

The lounge room with it's lovely table in the bay window, another table on the side wall, and at the moment a Bespaq sofa and chairs covered in green silk that I bought on eBay.  But I have bought another one also on eBay that suits the tone of the house a bit better - I feel this one is too fancy, much as I love it.

 Then the dining room, where the colour of the furniture is set off so well by the wallpaper.  I will be changing the chair seats eventually.  You can see here how the hearth is too small with the fireplace in situ.

The master bedroom, with some of the handmade hardwood furniture.  It is great quality, much nicer than the ordinary stuff.

This second photo shows the dressing table turned around to see it better.  There isn't room to have it flat against the wall, unfortunately.

The nursery with the furniture in process of painting so I've tried not to push the drawers right in until the knobs are on.  There will be a shelf for toys on the bare wall near the door.  Or maybe I'll put the chest there and shelves where the chest is at present?

The girl's room with the sdk furniture.  The shelf unit is actually a second bedside table that I kit-bashed a little bit, leaving out the drawers and filling in the slot for the middle support piece.  There's still a dressing table to come.  If it is a suitable size it will go where the shelf unit is now, and the shelf unit will go opposite its present position.

In the spare room I've put a single bed and a side table that I took from the living room, both of them are from the handmade range.

I couldn't resist this linen press - it is just gorgeous.  It might fit here in the attic hallway when the roof is on, but I'm not sure.  I hope so.  It will be fun to fill it with delicate linen.

Here it is with the doors open.

And here in the boy's room I have put a half-round table to show you.  Plain but beautifully made.  Not sure where I'll use it, maybe in the 1st floor hallway if it still allows enough room to get past it.

I bought these lovely Bespaq chairs on eBay too, for just a fraction of their normal price.  I am considering using them on the porch.

Another eBay buy at a great price is this Bespaq sofa and 2 chairs, which I might use in the tower room though it's rather too much furniture for such a little space.  I might just get another couple of chairs for this room.

I also bought a lovely hallstand from the handmade hardwood range but forgot to take a photo of it - which is a shame.  I'll have to make sure I do so for next time.  It's rather a pity that it will be hidden away in the foyer.

So there it is, a taste of how it will be furnished.  The rooms are small on the attic level but adequate.
Hope you like it.  Keep tuned!