Dining room

It is certainly taking a looooonnnnggg time to get the doors ready to glue in.  In the mean time I painted where the baseboarding will be just to get an idea of the effect.  I also straightened up a bit in the dining room again, just to see how it will eventually appear.
For some reason, I find this a cheerful sight.

Progress!

I was working like a mad woman and progress was made....  I got lights in the dining room and morning room.  The dining room is somewhat expanded which is really what I wanted to have to so that what you see here can happen.  The rugs can be rolled up, the tables put to the side under what will eventually be a row of windows and there is room for - DANCING!

The second photo is a mini child's eye-view sort of, kind of.
There is going to be a whole new floor in here.  The doors are not yet glued in, they are just set in place to get the effect.

I just wanted to say hello to my new followers and thank you.  Through you I am seeing even more mini-blogs and thus am learning more and more, which is wonderful.

My only pic today is of a small bedroom next door to the master bedroom in Merebrick.
I have only recently decided who will inhabit this room; it will be an elderly aunt.   But for now this how a corner of it looks.

The walls and such done in this room were done way back in 1997, I might change the paper but probably not soon.  My favorite item in this room is the cameo hanging over the bed.  That is one item that will not change in this room.

Doors!

I am deep in doors.  Last night I watched the episode of Lillie wherein Whistler helps her improve her drawing room and I noticed the door was black.   The other side, facing the hall was not black but it was black with some gold lines.    I suddenly realized that the doors for the morning room had to be - black.   Forthwith, before bed, I began painting them black.   This morning I did a bit more and selected the stained glass bits to go over the single doors. 

The trim for the black doors will be a nice pale but decided grey and the baseboard will be either black or very dark grey.
The doors facing into the dining room are actually in 3 colors but I'm not seeing it come through on camera.
There also may be some white flowers or vines or something painted in the dark areas.

Yes, I am working on the dining table with the cloth and mats on, rather foolishly daring but I am hot on this path.

Those sticks will be a sort of inner casing to hold the stained glass in place.

The red sections are going to be the doors facing into the drawing room and may (but more likely not) have gold on them.

This door will go from the drawing room into the library/
study.

I LOVE the look of this already.  This is the door going from the entrance hall into the morning room.

Door preview & Doors in progress

Here is a preview of how the grand double doors will look.  There is no varnish on yet, no door nobs and no baseboarding, picture rail or cornice either but it gives a sort of preview and I am feeling better about these doors.  I found a paper for the ceiling too.  I am going for the cloud/sky look in imitation of what Whistler was doing for Lillie Langtry's (in the BBC series Lillie - which I HIGHLY recommend) drawing room ceiling.
Actually, this side is the hallway side, the doors that will face into the room here will have red where the dark centers are and dark surrounds.   There is a ton of touch up work to do and just tons of work yet to do on the doors period.   The "stained glass" is sandwiched between glass with 1/8" spacer between.

Here is just a photo of the other 3 doors in progress.   Yesterday afternoon hubby and I were working together at the dining table, him on miniatures for a game, I on my doors.

Servant Hall Rules

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  
I am imitating Eliza (Wasting Gold Paper) who posted a photo of her Rules for the Servants Hall.   I thought it a tremendous idea and at least I found a different set (online) of rules so as not to be too imitative.   Here is my production:

Newspaper cut-outs

or What I Did Last Night.   I printed off some newspaper on thin grey paper and here is the result, just one of about 6 I made up most of them folded up.   For size I went by what I remembered of newspapers when I was young and they were about the size that this fellow is holding.

He REALLY needs a pair of shoes....sheeesh!