{"id":13676,"date":"2018-08-19T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=13676"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:32:32","slug":"finishing-the-victoriannas-master-bedroom-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=13676","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna master bedroom: finishing the closet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember just last week<\/a> when I said I wasn’t going to start on any big projects until I finished the Rowhouse shingles? I’m going back on my word. I want to get the roof on the Victorianna and to do that I need to finish the three rooms on the third floor. The nursery<\/a> and master bathroom<\/a> are more or less done so I turned my attention to the master bedroom.<\/p>\n

I started by papering and gluing in the sloped roof.<\/p>\n

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There wasn’t a lot of edge to glue to, so I glopped glue in the slots for good measure.<\/p>\n

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Last year I built a closet<\/a> to go in this room. The closet is made from a door and a wall that I hadn’t yet glued together. I wanted to add a clothing rod to the closet, which required gluing in the wall but not the door, so I’d be able to reach in to add the rod.<\/p>\n

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I cut a piece of 1\/4″ x 3\/8″ strip wood the width of the closet, to provide support for the wall. <\/p>\n

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This also blocks a gap between the roof and floor that was visible through the closet door.<\/p>\n

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Then I cut pieces to go on the opposite side of the wall. The wall is now wedged between the strip wood, which gives it support.<\/p>\n

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The strip wood also ensures that the knee wall stands up straight, and provides a surface to glue to.<\/p>\n

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Like on the other side of the house<\/a>, the triangle behind the knee wall will be covered up with siding.<\/p>\n

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I planned to make a clothing rod and shelf like I did for the closet in the girl’s room downstairs<\/a>. I’d bought another set of the Northeastern Scale Lumber brackets (which are discontinued and hard to find), but when I opened them I discovered these were a larger style than the ones I’d used elsewhere in the house.<\/p>\n

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Here’s where the bracket would have had to go to fit behind the closet door. That makes the clothing rod much too low.<\/p>\n

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I cut off the ends so the bracket could fit higher up on the wall.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the idea. A shelf will go on top.<\/p>\n

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Before gluing in the walls, I traced them on to a piece of wallpaper. The seam at the top of the knee wall will be covered with quarter round.<\/p>\n

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When I cut the wallpaper, I messed up where the diagonal and straight pieces meet – the angle should have continued until it meets the horizontal edge. This resulted in a little triangle of bare wood visible behind the wallpaper.<\/p>\n

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I added a scrap of wallpaper so that bare wood won’t show.<\/p>\n

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Next I glued in the strip wood and the two walls. The closet door is not glued in at this point — it can be removed by sliding it up.<\/p>\n

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I added one more piece of strip wood behind the knee wall, to give the siding more of a surface to attach to.<\/p>\n

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This is not glued in yet (it needs to be painted first), but here’s how that will look.<\/p>\n

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I cut the wallpaper so it ends right at the edge of the knee wall, rather than wrapping around (which was dumb). I painted the edge of the wall in case it’s visible at the edge. This is the pink house color, which is fairly close to the wallpaper color.<\/p>\n

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Before gluing in the clothing rod, I made some hangers and clothes to go in the closet. It’s too hard to reach into the closet (and will be impossible once the door is glued in), so I had to do this as part of the closet assembly. I made these the same way as the clothes in the bedroom closet downstairs (you can read about it here<\/a>). <\/p>\n

I tightened the loops of the hangers on the rod so they can’t fall off, and then I inserted the rod into the brackets and glued the brackets to the walls. The shelf went in last.<\/p>\n

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With the closet door open, you just get a peek.<\/p>\n

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Next I glued in the wallpaper and quarter round trim.<\/p>\n

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And then I added the (now painted) siding piece.<\/p>\n

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I’d hoped to do the whole bedroom this weekend, but this all took longer than I thought it would! I’ll do the other side of the room next. For now, here’s how it looks with the roof on.<\/p>\n

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Remember just last week when I said I wasn’t going to start on any big projects until I finished the Rowhouse shingles? I’m going back on my word. I want to get the roof on the Victorianna and to do that I need to finish the three rooms on the third floor. The nursery and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81,58,19],"class_list":["post-13676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-closet","tag-greenleaf-victorianna","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13676"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13703,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13676\/revisions\/13703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}