Immediately after I posted my last entry, I decided I couldn’t live with this awful corner after all and I started thinking about how I could fix it. Turns out it wasn’t that hard. I started by laying the wallpaper/wainscot piece for the right wall (which wasn’t glued in yet) on top of a new […]
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Fourteen months after I started the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom by kitbashing Cassidy Creations kits into a linen closet, I’ve finally hit the home stretch with this little room. Something that was holding me up was my indecision over whether I should finish the area behind the bathroom door. The door is set in a false […]
Multiple people have asked me recently what I’m working on mini-wise, and I’ve said I’m working on nothing, and it’s because of Daisy. She’s around 17 months old now (the vet actually adjusted her age a few months younger than we thought she was), and she’s doing well with training, but she still has a […]
I’ve been working on the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom for way too long. I started it last April when I bashed two Cassidy Creations kits into a linen closet and then dropped off over the summer when Momma’s Kitchen (and a new dog) diverted my attention. In September I got back to it for a little […]
Today’s post is a mishmash. In the past few weeks I’ve made a few great purchases and I want to show them off. First up, we have the Sugar and Tea canisters that match Momma’s Kitchen! I’m so excited to have found these. I got an email from Diane Siegler, who reads my blog, saying […]
Back in May, I wrote about how I made a false wall and ceiling for the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom. I never posted pics, but I went on to make false walls and ceilings for the bedrooms on either side of the bathroom. The bathroom wall is set in a bit, to make room for the […]
Oops, how is it fall already?! The Mansard Victorian has been sitting neglected all summer, but I’ve finally made a little progress on the bathroom. My excuse for the delay is this little bundle of joy. Her name is Daisy and she was estimated to be 6–9 months old in July. We’ve been working on […]
The Mansard Victorian’s upstairs ceilings look lower than they are, due to a 5/8″ strip underneath the roof trim that hangs down over the top of the rooms. Originally I thought about putting flourette bulbs or LEDs behind that trim piece, since they’d be hidden, but instead decided to take advantage of that space to […]
Last week I was browsing the Miniature Designs website and happened upon this Bauder-Pine pickle crock. Of course, I had to have it for my Mansard Victorian. Shipping was steep for such a tiny thing, so I threw some wallpaper and strip wood in the cart to qualify for free shipping. I reached out to […]
My Mansard Victorian didn’t come with any door holes in the walls. Since it’s a front-opening house, I decided to add false walls with doors along the back wall, to give the illusion that there’s a hallway there. The false wall gives me an opportunity to add a built-in linen closet to the bathroom. I […]
After my last post, I put together a second end table to go with the new Bauder-Pine bed. (The lampshade on the right-side lamp hangs funny. I have to figure out how to straighten it out without breaking the lamp.) The table kits were a good warm-up for the Hoosier cabinet for the kitchen, which […]
This week I stumbled upon a Bauder-Pine bed for $17 plus free shipping. Of course I bought it. It’s signed J McC — Jayne McCormick. Since I already have a Bauder-Pine bed for the Mansard Victorian’s downstairs bedroom, I’ll use this one in the attic bedroom. The light green bedding would have gone nicely with […]
Picking up from my last post, I continued the subway tiles until I reached the bottom of the cabinets. My kitbashed cabinets aren’t quite square and there’s a bigger gap under the right cabinet than the left. I thought maybe I could shove the cabinet bottoms up against the top edge of the tiles, but […]
This post has been a long time coming. I’ve been puttering around on the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen backsplash ever since I finished the countertop in January. First I glued in the kitchen wallpaper. I prepared this scrapbook paper last fall when I started the kitchen (yikes, has it been that long?) but then I put […]
The next step in the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen is the countertops. Looking back at the inspiration picture, the countertop is white tile with a black border. The backsplash is subway tile, but you can’t tell in this picture what the countertop tile looks like. I found a picture of another kitchen with a similar countertop. […]
Since my last post about the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen, I finished the second upper cabinet. Then I started thinking about how to make a hood. I was enjoying bashing Cassidy Creations kits into something completely different from their intended purpose, so I sat down with my box of kits and went through them looking for […]
When I left off with the uppers, I’d built the main part of the cabinet and was ready to add a row of smaller cabinets above. I assembled the “glass” doors so I could use them to determine how big to make the cabinets. I put these together with super glue, which more or less […]
Just as my idea to bash a changing table into kitchen base cabinets came from staring at the nursery furniture on the Mansard Victorian’s second floor, I got an idea for the uppers when I was staring at the bedroom. As a reminder, here’s how the cabinets look so far. I made these out of […]
Before I get back to the bashed cabinets, here are a few other pieces that will go in the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen. I bought this metal Cassidy Creations sink for a few dollars at a mini flea market. It had already been painted with glossy white paint. The sink has two legs in the front […]
When I started reading Nutshell News magazines in the 1990s, some of my favorite articles were the ones that showed how to bash furniture kits into something other than what they were supposed to be. In my quest to furnish the Mansard Victorian (almost) exclusively with Cassidy Creations and Bauder-Pine furniture, I’ll do the same […]
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