{"id":8857,"date":"2005-04-18T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T00:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T00:35:38","slug":"fairfield-hardwood-floors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8857","title":{"rendered":"Fairfield &#8211; hardwood floors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I picked up some wooden coffee stirrers to make hardwood floors for the Fairfield. For some reason, now seemed like a good time to do it! First I stained the coffee stirrers with Minwax Golden Oak. This brought out the grain and even some knots, so they really do look like scale floor boards.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/fairfield\/hardwood01.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>\n<p>Then it was time to install my floor. I was kind of surprised by how easy this was. I just glued the pieces down one at a time, and tried to vary the lengths so the ends of the stirrers wouldn&#8217;t always be in the same spot. The coffee stirrers were very easy to cut with a pair of scissors.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stirrers are a little crooked, so they don&#8217;t fit together perfectly. When you take a step back, though, it&#8217;s hardly noticeable.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/fairfield\/hardwood02.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>\n<p>I was able to do the whole living room but ran out of stirrers halfway through the dining room. I&#8217;ll be making a trip to the coffee kiosk at Mollie Stone&#8217;s to pick up more&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/fairfield\/hardwood03.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I picked up some wooden coffee stirrers to make hardwood floors for the Fairfield. For some reason, now seemed like a good time to do it! First I stained the coffee stirrers with Minwax Golden Oak. This brought out the grain and even some knots, so they really do look like scale [&hellip;]<\/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":[21,19],"class_list":["post-8857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-fairfield","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857","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=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}