I love everything about crafts. I have tried everything from scrapbooking, cardmaking, sewing, drawing, painting, knitting, crochet, dolls house making, etc. Basically you name it, I've probably tried it. I started this blog to display my numerous crafts, my inspiration and maybe a few tips on what I have learned. Thank you for visiting my blog and happy reading!

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Grosvenor Hall Living room


Hi everyone! Hope you are all well. I know I haven't posted in nearly two weeks, again, and I'm really sorry. I've been rearranging my craft corner and it's taken a lot longer than expected and I'm still no where near finished. I'll have to remember to post a photo of my craft corner when it's finished.
Anyway back to my gorgeous Grosvenor Hall. Wallpapering time! Yeah! Or should I say boo, I hate wallpapering. I always end up with lumps and bumps or worse, ripping it. Luckily with the living room I wanted half wallpaper and half panelling so it made my job a little easier.
Before I even started wallpapering I had to think about the lighting. I really want lit fire baskets and I was concerned about how I was going to hide the wires. I finally decided that I would cut a section out of the chimney breast and make a small channel through the chimney breast towards the back of the house to thread the wire through, then I can hide the rest behind the skirting board/panelling as I had already done in my kitchen; still need to drill a hole in the back of the house for the wire to go through.
Once I had glued the chimney breast in position I marked in pencil on my walls how high I wanted to panelling to give me a guide on how much I needed to trim my wallpaper.























I trimmed the wallpaper down leaving about half a centimetre overlap on the bottom edge. Pasting the paper and the wall I carefully placed it in the room. I realised quite soon that I would probably not have enough wallpaper to finish the entire room so I decide to leave the chimney breast blank (I will probably add some sort of panelling later).
























I overlapped the wallpaper on the chimney breast and just over the front edge which I will cover with a wood strip when the house is finished to prevent the wallpaper coming away from the wall at the edges.
As you can see in the pictures I still need to trim the hole for the doorway, which I will do when it's completely dry. Overlapping the wallpaper and matching the pattern wasn't as difficult as I first suspected and overall I am quite pleased with my wallpapering.








I temporarily placed the flooring and the fireplace in the room to get an overall effect; so far so good I think. The picture above is of the lights I would like to use for this room with matching wall lights. But before I buy them I still need to make the panelling, finish the chimney breast, secure the floor in place and possibly wallpaper the ceiling. I also still need to decide on a coving I like. Too many decisions, not enough time or money, typical.
I hope you like what I am doing, feel free to comment, positive and negative comments are all gratefully received as I find them very helpful. Thank you again for taking time to look at my progress.

Bye for now.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Dolphingazer,
    The room looks beautiful. I love the wallpaper and the fireplace is just perfect. EWverything is coming along really well. The dark floor is a perfect contrast with the pale paper. i cannot wait to see more.
    Big hug,
    Giac

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