{"id":6193,"date":"2014-01-12T18:35:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2014-01-12T18:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:35:41","slug":"rowhouse-finishing-the-hinged-panels-stair-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=6193","title":{"rendered":"Rowhouse – finishing the hinged panels (stair side)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November when my dad and I attached the hinged panels<\/a> to the Rowhouse, the panel on the stair side wasn’t closing all the way so we decided to add a magnet to help keep it closed. My dad used a special drill bit to drill a hole in the back side of the second story landing.<\/p>\n

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Before gluing in the magnet, I ran the red oak stain pen around the edge so none of the raw wood would show through.<\/p>\n

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Then I glued in a ceramic magnet.<\/p>\n

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I needed something metallic to put on the panel to engage the magnet. I wanted it to be unobtrusive and possibly even look like it belonged there. I found these metallic stickers and brads at Michaels in the scrapbook section. (I tested them with a magnet while I was in the store… not everything they had that was metallic was also magnetic!)<\/p>\n

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The decorative sticker thingies engaged with the magnet, with the added benefit of looking sort of like a Victorian heating vent, so I decided to use one of those.<\/p>\n

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My next step was to wallpaper the inside of the panel. This is wallpaper I created myself by tiling sample images from Bradbury & Bradbury<\/a>. In other spots of the room, the glue soaked through and discolored the paper. Through trial and error I realized this probably had something to do with the walls, since against the staircase wall I had attached the wallpaper to a piece of stiffer scrapbook paper first and that piece was the only one that didn’t get discolored. <\/p>\n

Too late to fix it in the rest of the room (unfortunately) but I decided to play it safe and attach this piece to scrapbook paper before gluing it to the wall. <\/p>\n

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First I painted the edges and the bottom, which will show underneath the paper, with the Baked Scone house color.<\/p>\n

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I cut the scrapbook paper to size and glued the wallpaper onto it. Then I ran the Xacto knife around the edge of the scrapbook paper to trim off the edges of the wallpaper. This gave me a nice clean cut without any scrapbook paper showing through at the edges.<\/p>\n

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It was important to me to do this nice and neatly since you’ll see it up close when you open the panel. Mission accomplished!<\/p>\n

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Here it is with the “heating vent” added.<\/p>\n

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On the inside edge, I wanted to cover up the hinges on the interior wall somehow. When I papered this room I didn’t realize this edge would be visible so it isn’t a straight cut, plus the gauges we cut for these hinges are particularly sloppy. I just didn’t like it being visible.<\/p>\n

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A close-up of the worst offender. I just needed it hidden, for my own sanity.<\/p>\n

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My original plan to was to glue a piece of stripwood over this, but it got in the way of the door and prevented it from closing properly. So instead I printed out a wallpaper border that complements the flowered paper. Not ideal but it gets the job done. <\/p>\n

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The two stories are a bit taller than the 11″ of a piece of paper, so I had to piece on a tiny bit at the bottom. It’s hard to tell unless you know it’s there (like I do!).<\/p>\n

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I added crown molding and baseboard. To keep the baseboard from bumping into the baseboard at the bottom of the stairs and preventing the panel from closing, I sanded down the back of it with Geoff’s belt sander first. <\/p>\n

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I didn’t like the window trim that came with the round windows – it’s just a circle and the diameter is slightly wider than the window opening, so it doesn’t hold the window plastic in place. Plus, one of my trim pieces broke. I bought two more windows with the plan of using the new ones on the inside. Back to back, the two windows are deeper than the wall.<\/p>\n

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I used the disc sander to reduce the amount of each window that sticks into the hole. Here you can see the two sanded windows next to one unsanded window. <\/p>\n

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Then I stained the new windows and the inside edges of the painted windows. (Plus some other window trim for the bedroom, unrelated to this post.) <\/p>\n

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The new windows have some glue splotches on them – not my fault! – that I need to touch up with paint like I did on the attic door<\/a>. Until then, here’s how they’ll look.<\/p>\n

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