I’m still gun shy about the electrical work.  With the L shaped house I just don’t know how it’s supposed to work.  So, I’ve come up with a plan to run most of the wiring on the exterior, and run it inside on the floorboards for the overhead lights.  Since I’m planning on doing siding and all my floors will be “hardwood” or “tile” that I’m going to lay on paper first it can wait for a while.

I had a happy accident too.  I liberated some coffee stirrers from a local coffee place for my hardwood floor.  I stained them to match the fireplace (and the stair treads, and the chimney pieces…) except they came out much darker than my fireplace.  I figured I must not have stirred the stain well enough the first time, and in a moment of not really thinking it through, slapped another coat on the fireplace.

This picture actually gives it a bit more depth than you can tell in real life.  It’s black, like I might as well have taken some black paint to it black.  Oh well, I thought.  I can just paint it, or wallpaper it with the rest of the room after all.  I moved on to my hardwood floor.  Made a paper template of the room I was covering, used my Easy Cutter (that thing seriously rocks) and made the floor.  I think it turned out pretty awesome.

Once I put it in with the fireplace I remembered some vintage grungy wallpaper I had downloaded, and then dismissed as I wasn’t sure I wanted to go that Victorian or that grunge.

The lighting in this pic isn’t great (it’s also a cell phone pic…) so it’s hard to tell, but it looks pretty awesome.  All dark and foreboding like.  I made a trip out to Magoo’s house yesterday (and saw her semi-finished room in person; it’s adorable!) and she convinced me to go for it.  All that other stuff (well, except for the windows, doors, etc) from the last post?  So not going in this house, but that’s ok cause this is going to be a lot of fun.

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