4th-gen-house: Master bedroom wallpaper

I have discovered that I am not the best wallpaperer ever. This was pretty dicey at times. Here is how it went...

Before doing the wallpaper, I wired the master bedroom for 3 LED ceiling lights. I have been working on fixture designs but I will write about that later when I am done making them. I ran the wires from the living room (where the lighting equipment will be behind a false wall) to the ceiling of the master bedroom. You can just see the two wires up the back wall in the picture below. The wires are very small and I felt sure that they wouldn't be visible behind the paper.

Next I made templates of the master bedroom walls out of pieces of magazine pages. Shown below are 1 of the side walls and the back wall. These I used to cut out the wall paper for the walls.

Below is the cut out wallpaper for one of the side walls. I put it into the house to dry-fit check it. I had to trim it a small amount to make it fit but the templates worked pretty well. There is about 1/4" extra on the end that will fold around the corner onto the back wall. This is because if you end the paper at the corners it ends up leaving a gap according to some other dollhouse decorating blogs.

Next I dry fit all the wallpaper in the room and it looks like the fit is good! One issue I ran into is that the back wall paper is a slightly different shade and scale compared to the side walls, however, it isn't too noticeable unless you realy look for it.

Next I mixed up some adhesive using the powder shown below. It was the only wallpaper adhesive that the hardware store had. I didn't want to use a more permenant glue just in case someone wants to re-decorate some time in the future.

The glue ended up looking like semi-transparent grits. I was a little skeptical about its sticking power so I tested it on a scrap pasted to a cardboard box. It does look pretty good.

I painted paste on the fold-over flaps and then painted paste on the walls, 1 wall at a time. When it was still wet, the wires were really visible. I think I made it worse trying to make them less visible, but now that its dry its not as bad as I was expecting. I can still see the wires on the back wall though, so next time I will definitely hide the wires better, along the corners. One of the side walls had a major wrinkle in it but Kristian saved the day by un-sticking half of the paper so I could re-stick it without wrinkles. I cut the window and door out after the paper was dry. It looks pretty nice in day-light!

After the stress of doing the master bedroom wallpaper, I wanted to relax and do a fun project to relax. I have been wanting to do this for a while. First i cut out some walls from basswood sheets. These are to scale and match the dollhouse walls

One of the dollhouse sides and the middle floor, you can see the "planks" i carved into the floor

I cut out all the walls floors and sides and then covered them with wallpaper. Green for the upper floor and white for the bottom floor except red for the dining room.

Then I glued them all together. The floor plan actually matches the full sized dollhouse. The staircase is just a plank with steps marked into it. Below is the structure minus the wall separating the dining room from the hallway.

I painted the outside with the same paint I used on the outside of the full-sized dollhouse and made a roof out of left over shingles. I also put white wallpaper over the edges to make it look a little nicer.