Onwards With Mr. Messenger's Study

I began to work on Mr. Messenger's Study today.

I wanted the ceiling to be something more interesting than the usual white, so I chose to have it gold.

I didn't have any wallpaper glue, and I was eager to get started anyway, so I decided to use Tacky Glue. I was a bit nervous, as I wasn't sure what it would be like to glue down wallpaper (or in this case, ceiling paper) with it.

I constructed the fireplace wall using sturdy cardboard and pieces of wood as braces.

The fireplace I made out of wood, which I stained a nice brown. I had a bag with a Safari theme, and I decided that Mr. Messenger was a well-traveled gentleman, so I would be using lots of images from the bag as paintings on his walls.

There was a nice border on the bottom of the wall (please excuse the glare), and I thought it would make a nice wallpaper border.

The wallpaper was one that I found on cider12's website (cider12.com). It was exactly how I had envisioned the wallpaper to look, which was a lucky break for me, as normally I can never find wallpaper that matches the one I imagine.

Here is a mock-up of how Mr. Messenger's study will look once the wallpaper and the fireplace is installed. I can't wait to see how the room looks when it is completed! I hope you had a wonderful New Year!

Mr. Messenger's Study and His Swivel Chair

I have began to work on a new room, based off one of my favorite books as a very young child, Annabel's House, by Norman Messenger. It is a book with drawings of an Edwardian house with lots of flaps that you can pull to reveal things inside the cupboards, etc. One of my favorite rooms in the book is most likely the study, and I am basing a room in my dollhouse after it. I am a visual person, so I wrote on scraps of papers and arranged them around the room until I found an arrangment I liked.

The room posing as the study is actually going to be the kitchen, and the study will probably be either on the third or fourth floor. I got to work making the swivel chair for the desk. It's a bit tippy, but it stands upright in the kitchen. I had to prop it up in Anthea's Room - I think her floor might be a bit uneven in places. It's an old house, after all! I don't quite know what I based the chair after - I did hunt for a bit of inspiration on Google, searching for '1930s swivel desk chairs', and based it a bit off of those. While it doesn't swivel, I'm still happy with it.