I've been busy

 I got the bedrooms papered for a start.  I don't have an overall picture of the edifice yet but I was going for a certain balance of colors and patterns in the rooms.
  
I plunked down beds in the rooms which may or may not be there when they are "done" - whenever that will be, if ever.

I can't believe how smoothly it all went but maybe it's because I spent an awful long time picking what papers were going to go where.

Ten interior doors are necessary to continue work on these bedrooms and I am hoping to order them all today.  There is still a LOT of work to do on the halls which won't be seen much but I am doing them up to make myself happy about it.  The dado will be painted a dull brown over the shiny nonsense on the paper and floors have to be added as well as doors and a picture or two so they can be "glimpsed" from the doors.

 The green washstand goes with the green bed just as I planned.

Where the ladder is will be a hall with light green striped wallpaper (and a frieze), a staircase and a bathroom behind the door.  A bedroom is above the hall.

And to the right of this set of 6 bedrooms will be this bit with a tower room yet to be built on top.

 The slanted bit on the left upstairs is the underside of the stairs leading to the tower room. 

Hallways are papered

By dint of staying up till 10 pm last night and getting up somewhere before 5 am, I was able to get the hallways papered. 
True - they will mostly not be seen but it makes me happy to have them done.
The bit of unfinished baseboard I propped upstairs was just for effect.  It will, of course be painted BROWN.
And once doors are in they will be standing open all the time just so I can look into my hallways.
These hallways are fully 3 1/2" wide, nice and generous.

Here is one of those shots I so love, as if I were mini and "looking down the hallway."   It makes me feel like an inhabitant.

Below is a better view of the wall-paper and the dado, oh so perfectly Late-Victorian.

If I can't have it in real life I can have it in 12th scale.

Construction is messy

The construction crew has been back at work on Ariel/Sapiens.   The halls needed to be deeper and it was decided that there will be bathrooms, plural.  
I must admit I was very inspired by Hambleton Hall's bathroom (http://hambletonhall.blogspot.com/) and I hope to have one very like it, in spirit at least.

Here is a view of an enlarged, well, deepened hall one papered, one yet to be.



























And the whole edifice now is 54" wide.  I made many other big decisions this past weekend too such as the height of the top half and how the front will look.  There is still A LOT of construction ahead.   It well may end up as 60" wide, maybe. 

Change of Wallpaper in Merebrick

I have never been happy with the walls of the Merebrick parlor.   When I found some scenic papers online I decided I wanted that sort for the upper half of the parlor.   The door has yet to be done.

More wallpapering done

It was slow going but I got more wallpaper or more properly said, dado's & friezes went up this weekend.  I am pleased to have quite a number of Bradbury & Bradbury papers in Ariel.

Fortunately, pictures do not show the amount of back-and-forth decision making that went on before I decided on this dado & frieze set for the "drawing room".  And when decided what I had to do to get it all on there.  I think it is a rather strong statement but this is what I want.

This one below is just perfect for the "morning room", quite somber.  I think this frieze is not B & B though it might be a Voysey - but whatever, it is just what I wanted.  Now to decide where fireplace and door(s) will go. 

The Morning Room

Merebrick details, Front Entry hall finally papered!

The front hall of Merebrick has been white since forever.  I wanted a scenic paper of some kind but it had to be just the right colors and I finally found what I liked.    I also just got that baby carriage which will be decorated.  I think too a rug is called for.   The ceiling needs work now though....

Ariel/Sapiens is coming along!

But not as fast as I would like.
Here is the "Lion and the Rose" frieze up at last. Just as soon as I get one element done I am just itching to see the moulding, baseboards etc. all done and in but I have to decide where the fireplace is actually going to be. In other words, I want to get to the decorating!

Below you can see what will the "Morning Room" a la Upstairs, Downstairs, the grey one that is. The blue bit with the stairs is going to be the front hall. Above it is the upper hall leading to the drawing room.

The upper hallway is purple because I wanted lots of color and because of the object on the table which will sit in that hallway on either that table or another.