Walls

Big and Small.....

I Truly cannot say how long it has been, Dear Readers, since I did any Serious work on the Folly! It figures so often in my pictures of sunlight playing in my Doll Worlds, and I have come to accept it's incompleteness while I work on my other more Exciting projects. But I have for a long time been aware that the Kitchen needed attention! The only furnishing in there have been the almost finished stove and the not at all finished, but cute, hutch! It is such a small space that I have never been sure I would be able to fit in a refrigerator.... but I have always known it would need a sink! And not just any sink! It would need to be small and old fashioned... (this house was built in the Nineteenth Century after all), with a slightly elegant feel to it, not really rustic at all. I have watched others make their own sinks with great success... and was beginning to think I needed to make this myself. Then I came across the perfect little sink at the Sturbridge Fair! 

(Yes, I did not show you ALL the Treasures I bought at the Fair!) 

When I got it home, It Fit Perfectly! 

And then I began to think of the Tile backsplash it would require.... 

as it had no backsplash attached..... 

And that was when I noticed the Coaster under my Tea.... 

one given to me Ages ago by my Dear Friend Ewa.... 

of The Sunny Hours blog.....

She sent me a gift package with these coasters and many other little things... 

and I have always thought these coasters should 

find their way into one of my projects...!

So I propped it in place behind the sink......

and it Fit Perfectly!

(Thank you, Ewa!!!)

Then I thought there should be wainscoting 

below the tile backsplash.....

Beadboard wainscoting...

Because All the old Victorian houses I ever saw 

had beadboard wainscoting in the kitchen!

I would need to start with the mopboard at the bottom....

Then I found a piece of trim in my piles of stuff 

that was already painted the right color....

 

And was the right length for both the mopboard and the chair rail at the top...!

Once they were glued in place 

I began to cut woodsies to the right length......

And glued them in place between the rails!

The woodsies have enough of a bevel on their edges 

that they mimic the beadboard paneling, 

but they don't actually have a "bead" along the edge. 

These will be barely visible in the end, 

so I am not bothered by that small imperfection.

As for the "Tile" backsplash.....

I took the coaster and trimmed the sides back 

to eliminate the curve at the corners,

And marked the grid of the tiles with a pen.

I then used a ball stylus to press an indentation along the lines....

this is to mimic the grout lines.

Because the coaster is just varnished paper 

I did not want to cut into its surface.

Here you can see the grout lines painted white....

I did spray the surface with varnish between the black marking and the white....

And then again to seal the white too....

I think it looks like perfectly dirty old grout!

Of course, by now it is so late at night 

and the picture is too dark to see well.

But in the morning.....

With the Sun shining in....

I think it looks Perfectly Lovely...

And almost as if it has always been there!

You can even see the "texture" of the individual tiles!

 I am sometimes amazed at how things will 

suddenly come together to make the perfect result...

when I had no idea how it was going to work when I started!

But that was not the only wall I was working on, Dear Readers!

I also decided to wallpaper the inside of the Stairwell 

on the spiral stairs in the Tree House....

And it is a good thing I did! 

Because in the process of making the pattern for the wallpaper....

I discovered I had not yet glued the cardboard wall in place!

It is now glued....

I used the same glittery paper that I used in the Library and the lower stairwell.

I still need to make the window for this door... 

and add the latch and magnet.....

But I think it is just about time to attach the next floor above! 

So I can get going on Those Next Walls, Dear Readers!

Big And Small!