After finishing the fireplaces, it was bugging me that you could see the transition between the two types of wallpaper where the diagonal wall met the back wall. I fixed this today by adding a thin piece of basswood to the corner where the two walls meet.

From the front (which you can only see through the window!), this means there’s now a piece of wood visible that wasn’t before. I’ll balance it out by adding trim to the other edge of the corner wall, which will also hide my “close but no cigar” attempt at matching the wallpaper. It was a valiant effort!

Anyway, back to the kitchen! I left off with the fridge cabinet. Following the method shown on the Greenleaf Fairfield for Miss Lydia Pickett blog, I added basswood to the top of the fridge for the cabinet to sit on.

It looks like this. I haven’t decided if I should paint the doors of this cabinet green like the others or leave the whole thing beige. I’d like to glue some glassware in (wine glasses?) and then glue the doors shut since they don’t want to stay closed on their own, so am holding off on making a decision until I have something to put in it. Maybe I’ll find something at the CHAMPS show next weekend…

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Back to the rowhouse kitchen! I’m bashing a modern kitchen kit from SDK Miniatures. The instructions for the upper cabinets were a little confusing (or maybe I didn’t read them carefully). The two sets of shelves and the wine rack need to be glued to the front piece before the front/back/sides are glued together, otherwise they would be hard to get in.

Also it would have been better if I’d painted the inside back piece beige since it’s hard to get a paintbrush in and paint the backs of the shelves, but I didn’t realize that until it was too late…

I didn’t have enough flooring strips left for the kitchen, but wasn’t crazy about using tiles. I found a piece of flooring sheet in my stash that would fit the kitchen and was pretty similar in size and color to the flooring I used everywhere else. Ideally I would have had the floorboards running the other way (the length of the room) but decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth… I had this sheet already, it was free!

I stained the flooring sheet with Minwax English Oak because the Golden Oak that I used for the rest of the house looked too dark on this wood. The single floorboard off to the left is one of the ones from the rest of the house.

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