Why yes, this is a picture of the living room with a light on.  I had an ah-ha moment with the lighting while looking at some instructions (again, for like the 20th time).  So, I put some more of the shell together, and got to it.  I’m pretty excited with the way it’s turning out.  My wallpaper doesn’t match 100% in the corner, but the stains do a well enough job of blending into each other, and I can put some trim in the corner if the wallpaper really bothers me.  I did manage to paint myself into some corners by installing some of the shell, but as it’s my first time I’m going to give myself a pass.  I also worked on decorating the dining room.

For the molding I stained the first 1.5″ of the wall, then put up the wallpaper, and finally used a couple of my already stained coffee stirrers for the molding.  Once I fit the floor in I’ll add a couple more vertical pieces to the wall to make it look more like panels.  I really wanted this room to be green, so I found this seamless pattern, and played with the colors in photoshop until I got what I wanted.  I’m printing all my wallpaper on my Canon inkjet printer.  I’m using pastel art paper (cutting it down from 9″x12″ to 8.5″x11″).  I’ve found that if I do a borderless print, and stack 2 prints vertically (so the picture is roughly 5.5″ tall) it’s pretty much the perfect size for wallpaper.  I like the pastel paper because the ink soaks in a bit, and is just a little blurry; makes it look old.

I think I’m going to really regret not papering or painting the ceiling before installing it, but c’est la vie.  Not much to be done about it now.  Now that I have the bottom floor lights pretty much squared away I need to install the floor, paper the remaining walls, and assemble the rest of the shell up to the 2nd floor.  Since I’m over the electrical hurdle now; I think it’ll go much more quickly.

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