{"id":11650,"date":"2017-06-27T17:41:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2017-06-27T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:50:22","slug":"victorianna-starting-the-babys-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=11650","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna &#8211; starting the baby&#8217;s room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final room on the Victorianna&#8217;s top floor will be a nursery, and I took a break from the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=11627\" target=\"new\">master bathroom<\/a> to wallpaper it. (This needed to happen before I could glue in the door between the two rooms and finish the trim in the bathroom.) This is an Itsy Bitsy wallpaper that I bought <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=9330\" target=\"new\">way back when<\/a>. I was able to do both of these walls with one piece, so there&#8217;s no seam, and I have enough left over to do the outside of the tower. The inside of the tower will be different &#8212; still working it out in my head, so I&#8217;ll leave you in suspense for now!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna777.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Like in the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=10452\" target=\"new\">girl&#8217;s room downstairs<\/a>, I cut the border off the top of the wallpaper and glued it on more at a kid&#8217;s eye level. I&#8217;ll add trim to the top and bottom edges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna778.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>A few hours later &#8212; after the glue dried, of course &#8212; I started playing around with furniture. I&#8217;d been planning to use this cute hand-painted wardrobe (made by Pam Junk and Cheryl Hollis) in the downstairs room but ran out of space for it there, so I was thinking I could put it in this room instead. But the colors and animals weren&#8217;t quite right (the safari animals would gobble up those swans!), and tucked into the corner it would be hard to see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/pam-junk-wardrobe.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered this corner bookshelf I bought years ago from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atriflesmall.co.uk\/124th-scale-bare-wood-corner-shelf-unit-326\" target=\"new\">A Trifle Small<\/a>. (Houseworks has since started making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniatures.com\/124-Scale-Corner-Cabinet--P27028.aspx\" target=\"new\">one that&#8217;s similar<\/a>.) I love how it looks in the corner, and it&#8217;s tall enough that I can turn it into a built-in, but my eyes keep going to that zebra butt sticking out the side. In the downstairs bedroom I was careful to do the border in a way that didn&#8217;t chop any animals in half. Same with the elephant to the right of the door in the baby&#8217;s room. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna779.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I only have two tiny scraps of border left &#8212; just enough to do the outside of the tower walls. I thought about trying to slice the border in the corner while the glue was still tacky and pull it off but that seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. In yet another case of Doing Something Complicated to Fix a Tiny Problem, I&#8217;m thinking of building my own corner cabinet that&#8217;s a little wider so it covers up the zebra&#8217;s butt. I know, I know. I&#8217;m a weirdo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna780.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Moving on! After gluing in the door, I went ahead and did the hardwood floors, because they&#8217;re relaxing. Hard to believe it&#8217;s been <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=8018\" target=\"new\">more than two years<\/a> since I did the first floors in the Victorianna. Will this house ever be finished?! (*ahem* Not if I keep doing unnecessary work like scratch building <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=11589\" target=\"new\">linen closets to cover up wallpaper seams<\/a> and cabinets to cover up zebras&#8217; butts. *ahem*)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna781.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the basic idea for furniture layout. I&#8217;ll put a changing table between the chair and shelves, cross stitch a rug, and add some baby toys to the floor. (I wonder if anyone makes a half scale potty chair?) I also have a cute mobile to hang from the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna782.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a lot to do before the roof pieces can be glued in, but here&#8217;s a gratuitous skylight picture. :)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna783.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final room on the Victorianna&#8217;s top floor will be a nursery, and I took a break from the master bathroom to wallpaper it. (This needed to happen before I could glue in the door between the two rooms and finish the trim in the bathroom.) 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