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Orchid – bedroom & bathroom

The bedroom was the first room I decorated when I finished the house, and nothing’s really changed since then. I am planning to put some trim up on the seams of the wall joints. I’m also going to make a Chrysnbon rocking chair for this room.


Lo and behold, the bathroom has been papered! After months of putting it off, I finally made a last minute decision to use this green scrapbooking paper. Tried two other colors before this and was about to rip out the floor and replace it with something else when I realized this green, which I was planning to use in the Contemporary Ranch (should I ever get around to building it), would look nice here. The “shelf” around the room is crown molding. I got the idea to use it that way after seeing something similar in the Pottery Barn catalog.

I added a back “wall” under the window because it looked weird to have the tub / shower up against the sloped roof.

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Orchid – September update

The semi-finished house, in its new home on a shelf in my kitchen:

Now that I brought the house home, I’m having a lot of fun with the decorating… The first thing I did was finish the bed. I made the mattress, bedspread, and pilows. The pillow with the pattern was a Janet Granger kit.

And here is the bathroom. I put a piece of plywood behind the tub so it’s not up against the slanted ceiling. May also build a little windowsill / shelf so there’s somewhere to put the shampoo bottles. This is the green flooring I bought awhile ago. Having trouble finding something that matches for the walls around the shower (I don’t want hexagons on the wall…) I did find some nice peach and white tiles at a dollhouse store in New Jersey when I was there for my friend’s wedding… might wind up using that instead of the green. I will be adding the shower curtain and fixtures once I tile the walls around the tub.

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Orchid – August update

Geoff was over with his digital camera so I had him take a few pictures of the conservatory. The cabinets and appliances are mostly assembled.

An eating surface will be built into the island, where the chairs are.


Update, August 25: Finally, the dormer has been attached! With a ton of glue and a bit of luck, it’ll stay put. I turned the house on its side and applied pressure to get the dormer to glue in as well as possible. There are major cracks and glue glops, but I’ll be covering them up with trim.

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