{"id":19757,"date":"2023-04-16T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2023-04-17T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:48:41","slug":"mansard-victorian-fireplace-hearth-and-flooring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=19757","title":{"rendered":"Mansard Victorian – fireplace hearth and flooring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cute furniture alert! I recently bought this rocking horse off eBay for the Mansard Victorian. It’s made from a Cassidy Creations kit (the same one I finished as a zebra<\/a> for the Victorianna). The little blue horse toy was a bonus the seller included in the package.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think this was finished by Bauder-Pine. It’s signed MM underneath — I don’t know who that is — but it’s very nicely done and this is a rare kit, so I decided to buy it rather than wait in vain for another kit to turn up.<\/p>\n

(I mention this because I’m planning to furnish my Mansard Victorian with all Bauder-Pine and Cassidy Creations furniture. This post has more details.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Moving on. With the Mansard Victorian’s foundation finished<\/a>, I can finally get started on the interior. I’m starting with the living room and entry, which will be separated by a partial wall.<\/p>\n

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The first thing I did was flip the house over and glue in the ceiling paper for these two rooms.<\/p>\n

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For reasons explained in this post<\/a>, I had previously glued cardboard to the floor. My Braxton Payne fireplace<\/a> was a snug fit once the cardboard was added, and that fit got even snugger with the addition of ceiling paper. I needed the fireplace to be a tad shorter in order to slide a hearth underneath it. <\/p>\n

I brought it over to the disc sander… what could go wrong?<\/p>\n

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The disc sander is great for little pieces of trim, but whenever I use it to sand something wide, there’s a risk of catching a corner on the spinning sander, and that’s what happened here. Luckily this corner will be hidden by the built-in bookcase. But I didn’t want to try my luck a second time.<\/p>\n

At least I had sanded enough off the top to be able to slide a piece of marble paper under the fireplace. This is the same paper I used for the surround. I also cut a piece of embossed brick paper to fit inside of the fireplace.<\/p>\n

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I painted the marble paper with matte varnish, and dirtied up the brick paper with black paint.<\/p>\n

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Next I glued 3\/8″ strips to the back of the fireplace. These will push it out from the wall to make the fireplace deeper than the built-ins.<\/p>\n

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Because the fireplace was such a tight fit, I had to glue in the marble paper before gluing in the fireplace. I traced the bottom of the fireplace onto the cardboard and put the cabinet in place to (theoretically) get the marble paper into the right position.<\/p>\n

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(Ignore the pencil line in front of it — originally that’s where I wanted the hearth to come out to, but when I put everything in and looked at it, it seemed to protrude too much.)<\/p>\n

I glued in the fireplace and the brick paper. Due to the depth of the room, it was hard to tell if the marble paper was in straight, but I suspected it wasn’t. Also, it’s shifted slightly to the left, not quite lined up with the edges of the fireplace. Oops.<\/p>\n

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Before gluing in the fireplace, I had put in the left cabinet and bookcase to make sure the fireplace was positioned correctly, but I didn’t glue these in yet since they’re not quite done. Once it was too late to nudge the fireplace over, I realized that the addition of wallpaper might bulk up the wall too much for the cabinet and bookcase to squeeze in there. Oops again.<\/p>\n

I hate painting, and when I started working on this house, I didn’t want to take the time to prime the walls. But I also worry about the wallpaper becoming discolored sitting right next to the plywood — especially since I’m using Brodnax wallpaper in this house, which is thinner than the Itsy Bitsy paper I usually use. <\/p>\n

To protect the wallpaper, and also to cover up the seams where I added strip wood to bulk up the house<\/a>, I decided to glue a piece of thicker paper between the wallpaper and the walls in this house. Will it work? We’ll find out!<\/p>\n

Here is a piece of scrapbook paper I cut to fit on the wall to the left of the fireplace. The pink side will go up against the wall (I didn’t want to take a chance of the bright pink showing through the wallpaper). The piece of wallpaper is glued to the other side — the white square you see here is the back side of the wallpaper, that needs to be cut out for the doorway to the addition.<\/p>\n

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And here it is with that piece cut out. I put the small piece aside to use elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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I glued my scrapbook paper plus wallpaper to the wall. The built-in is *very* snug, but I am still able to slide it out.<\/p>\n

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Back to the hearth. My intent had been to add a border around the outside of the marble paper, but since the paper wasn’t straight I decided to add the border on top of it instead. I started by cutting two side pieces. I positioned these to hide that the paper was slightly off center from the fireplace.<\/p>\n

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The horizontal piece then hides that the paper is crooked. I touched up the corner seams after gluing in the pieces.<\/p>\n

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Starting at the front of the house, I laid out flooring pieces to see what I would end up with around the hearth. These are 1\/4″ LittleWonders Lumber strips in cherry, stained with Minwax Cherry stain. I started at the front because I want the flooring to look nice and clean on the open front edge of the house. <\/p>\n

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I should have looked at this before adding the hearth, because I ended up with a sliver of space between the last floorboard and the border. I could have notched a floorboard to fit around the hearth, but thought that might look sloppy. <\/p>\n

Instead, I cut a piece of floorboard into skinny pieces with my utility knife. They’re not perfectly straight, but you won’t be able to tell once they’re glued in with floorboards around them.<\/p>\n

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I used these to create another border around the hearth.<\/p>\n

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Next I lay down a floorboard in front of the hearth, using a cabinet to estimate where the right wall will be.<\/p>\n

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I started working backward from this. There’s a sliver at the back but you won’t be able to see it once the built-ins are in place.<\/p>\n

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On the right side, when I set the wall in place I saw that the first few floorboards were too short. I have some more work to do before I can glue in that wall, so this is where I’ll leave off on the floors for now.<\/p>\n

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Cute furniture alert! I recently bought this rocking horse off eBay for the Mansard Victorian. It’s made from a Cassidy Creations kit (the same one I finished as a zebra for the Victorianna). The little blue horse toy was a bonus the seller included in the package. I don’t think this was finished by Bauder-Pine. […]<\/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":[38,19,100],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-cassidy-creations","tag-half-scale","tag-mansard-victorian","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","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=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19809,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}