{"id":13788,"date":"2018-09-23T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=13788"},"modified":"2018-09-24T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:23:27","slug":"victorianna-kitchen-bay-window-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=13788","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna kitchen bay window seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at the point where I could attach the Victorianna’s roof, but after spending so much time shingling the Rowhouse<\/a> I just don’t have it in me to do another roof right now. So I moved on to the last room in the house: the kitchen. <\/p>\n

I wanted to use the same tan wallpaper I used in the second floor bathroom<\/a> (which has the same texture as the pink wallpaper used in the rest of the house), but I don’t have any more and it’s discontinued. Instead I papered it with a heavy off-white scrapbook paper that also has some texture to it. <\/p>\n

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It’s too difficult to slide the wallpaper up behind the archway, especially with this stiff scrapbook paper. When I did the other four bay windows, I slid the wallpaper in through the gaps in the sides<\/a>. I couldn’t do that in the kitchen because I’ve already added siding to the back of the house, blocking off those gaps. Luckily I hadn’t glued in the bay window wall pieces yet. With one of the walls removed, I was able to slide the wallpaper in.<\/p>\n

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I put that wall panel back in, creased the paper at the joints, and cut out the window holes.<\/p>\n

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Then I removed the wallpaper from the opening and glued the three wall pieces together. These are only glued to each other, not to the house yet.<\/p>\n

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When the glue was dry, I was able to remove the assembly to add wallpaper and trim. This was much easier than doing it with the bay window in place (which is how I did the other four).<\/p>\n

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I added painted strip wood to the inside edges of the window holes.<\/p>\n

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Then I glued in the interior window trim, cleaned up the seams with wood filler, and touched up the paint.<\/p>\n

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Next I added strip wood to the edges of the archway. While the glue was still tacky, I popped the bay window back into place to make sure this trim wouldn’t bump into the window trim. (It didn’t.)<\/p>\n

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With those side trim pieces in, it was time to build the window seat. This octagon piece is left over from the 1:48 scale gazebo I bashed into a cupola<\/a>. It just happens to match the width of the bay window walls.<\/p>\n

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I used a utility knife to cut down the octagon.<\/p>\n

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The corners needed to be cut off for it to fit in the opening.<\/p>\n

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Based on where the piece was hitting the sides of the opening, I marked where I thought I should cut, but I got it wrong.<\/p>\n

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Luckily I still had the other side of the octagon piece. This time instead of cutting the corners, I sanded them with the disc sander, little by little, until the seat piece fit perfectly. The vertical piece is 3\/4″ basswood, and there’s another piece at the back to hold the seat level.<\/p>\n

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I looked through my scrap pile and found a piece of channel molding that fit over the front edge of the seat. <\/p>\n

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This covers up the slots and provides a cleaner edge than the exposed plywood.<\/p>\n

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I had a small piece of hardwood floor with very skinny planks left over from the Artist’s Cottage<\/a>. I cut this to fit and glued it on.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how it will look. I also added a piece of cove molding to the front bottom of the unit. The whole seat will be painted trim color.<\/p>\n

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Back to the bay window trim. I had two options for the corners. This is the fancier style I used in the living room and dining room. I liked the idea of all three first floor bay windows matching, but this seemed a bit much for a kitchen.<\/p>\n

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This simpler style is similar to what I used on the second floor<\/a>, but a little larger. I decided to go with this one.<\/p>\n

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Here’s where I left off for today. I’m going to put a round table<\/a> here, with the window seat providing seating on one side and two chairs on the other side.<\/p>\n

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I’m at the point where I could attach the Victorianna’s roof, but after spending so much time shingling the Rowhouse I just don’t have it in me to do another roof right now. So I moved on to the last room in the house: the kitchen. I wanted to use the same tan wallpaper I […]<\/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":[58,19],"class_list":["post-13788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-victorianna","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788","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=13788"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13811,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}