I've Gone And Done It Again. . .

That's right - I started a new room, even when I was so close to being done with the Trunk Room! The room that I started to renovate this time is the room I formerly called Becky's room. It was the first room I ever wallpapered way back when I began miniature making, and I always had a plan to redo it, but (perhaps out of fear) hadn't touched anything in it.

Unfortunately, the only photo of it I could find has terrible lighting, but it gives you a general idea. I have been making plans for a few weeks for what the room will be, and I thought I would share them with you. When I was around eight or nine, I was obsessed with the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton, and I was always imagining myself as one of the characters. My favorite of the Famous Five series was Five Go To Smuggler's Top, partly because of the description of the castle that the Famous Five was staying at. I used to imagine I'd have an enourmous dollhouse that was exactly like the castle in the book, so to satisfy these childhood dreams, I decided that I'd base this room after the castle in the Famous Five series. T he occupant of the room will be called Marybelle (who is one of the characters the Famous Five meets in the book), who is around ten years old. To start with the renovation, I pulled out all the wallpaper, leaving bare white walls. It was an easier job than I expected because I hadn't applied enough glue to the walls.

Now, for the 'before' images.

The East Wall (you'll have to excuse the pink tint to the photograph, my camera doesn't photograph white very well).

The South Wall (the red on the white walls is not because of the camera, but is just some red marker (?) that stained the roombox.

The North Wall.

The floor.

And lastly, the ceiling. I am very excited to see where this project takes me, and I hope you'll enjoy following along too!

The Trunk Room Nears Its Finishing Touches

I was commemorating the completion of the wooden floor in the Trunk Room by taking a lot of photos with dramatic lighting for my own amusement when I decided that instead of stalling, it was best to work on the door jamb.

The bottom of the door opening looked like this before I added the door jamb. Because the door opening was a bit higher than the floor, it would have to be part of a step I was planning on building soon.

I added the door jambs inside, and here is a photo of that (they are not glued in yet).

The doorway was very crooked and I didn't particulary want to sand it down, so I glued in the door jamb and just put pieces of wood underneath the pieces of the door jamb to straighten them.

In this image you can really see how painfully crooked the door jamb was before I straightened it.

After I had finished the door jamb and had added the door trim around it, I had to add the step. The above photo is what the door looked like without the step in place (I also like how you can see the dollhouse through the door opening).

I added a small piece of trim right above where the tiny step would be.

Above is the finished step. It is very small, for it is just meant to ensure you do not have to take a very large step down when entering the trunk room. Oh! And do you remember the gap between the wainscotting and the floorboards I was having trouble with in the post before?

Well, I finally fixed it!

And also, thank you for staying with me till the end of this long and most likely very boring posts (door jambs only go so far to stir up people's excitements, I know 😀).

In my next post I will be onto decorating the trunk room! Hooray! Thank you for reading!

Work Continues In The Trunk Room

As work has been progressing very slowly on Lockwood Manor, my goal for this month of February was to complete at least one room. Because I was almost finished with the Trunk Room, I decided it was a good place to start and laid the floor.

The floor before.

Nearly finished!

And done. Well, it looked fine - except for one thing.

There was a very small gap between the wainscotting and the floorboards. It was too small to make another floorboard to fit, so I had to brainstorm another solution. I could put a piece of grating in that corner, but I didn't have anything that small. I put that on hold for the moment to work on a door.

I drew a rough outline of the door, then cut it out.

It is too thin to be an actual door, so I will add some strip wood to the sides of it to make panelling, which should help some.

This is what the door looks like inside the Trunk Room.

While I have put the Trunk Room on hold for the time being until I figure out how to fix the floorboards, I have a few projects that I'm working on that I will post about soon, so stay tuned!

The view into the North Attic Bedroom from the door, which is what it would look like if Lockwood Manor was a real house (rather unrealistic head proportions, I know). Have a good weekend!