All the interior walls and ceilings have already had a couple of coats of an off white emulsion and I began decorating the living room first.
I decided on this period fireplace and set about making a chimney breast. I used foam board for this which I find easy to cut.
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I’m having the chimney breast on this right hand wall but first I needed to lay the flooring so that I didn’t have to cut around the chimney breast once it was in situ…
I also painted an area around the hole where the fire would be inset
I made a template of the floor area and used real wood floorboard sheet, cutting each board individually and laying each one down onto the template.
I used a medium oak stain followed by a wax and polish to give a light sheen.
I remembered to leave a small gap between the floor and chimney breast to allow for the wire from the fire to run! I’ve forgotten to do this in the past much to my annoyance!
My next job was to add cornice and a pretty ceiling rose
I didn’t take photos of fitting the skirting and picture rail but here is how it all turned out!
So here we have the outside finished apart from glazing the windows complete with tape on them as they would have had in wartime.
The pavement is made using sandpaper.
Door furniture added!
And I’ve begun building the kitchen now…
This will be a small room box which will sit at the back of the house and line up with the doorway that I cut out in the hallway…more on this later!
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