Friday, November 16, 2012

Wallpaper

I have started wiring up the house, which is the step that must be completed before wallpapering the interior. Working with the little wires is frustrating because they are hard to see in the evening (which is when I have time to work on it) but also good because I can usually feed them behind walls without having to drill holes everywhere. As of now the plan is to have three ceiling lights in the master, 2 ceiling lights in the nursery, 3 small bathroom vanity lights in the bathroom (and maybe 1 ceiling light), 1 ceiling light in the kitchen, 3 chandelier lights in the dining room, 1 hallway light (maybe a wall sconce?), 3 ceiling lights in the living room and 4 flicker fire lights also in the living room. I think the best way to hide the hardware (mainly the resistors on each circuit) will be to lay everything out on the back wall of the living room and put in a false wall. It won't take much room and wont be visible. Then I can feed the connector cable to the power supply out under the bottom where there is already a small gap between the wall and the bottom of the house.

The next step is wall paper and I have been having a lot of indecision over wallpapers. The only one I have decided on is the master bedroom.


The ceiling will be white and the flooring I am still undecided on. I can't decide whether to do carpet or hardwood veneers (which look really cute but may be more expensive).

Heather suggested doing exposed brick for the kitchen, an idea I love. But I am not going to do real brick in the kitchen because its the hardest room to reach in the house. I hope to use some brick paper that looks something like this...


For the floor in the kitchen I found this parquet on card stock which I thought would look nice with exposed brick...


I will have to coat it with some lacquer of some sort to make it nice and shiny.

I was thinking of using something in the dark red or maroon family for the dining room. Some options are...






Feel free to chime in if you have strong feelings about these or have another choice to add in.

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