Tanglewood Hall is (mostly) done

I went on a big push this long weekend to try to get this house semi-finished (right now in the project I want to get them each to the point where their furniture can be stored within) and I succeeded. I posted about the Georgian Kitchen and the shop and modiste/milliner upstairs, but it was time to buckle down and do the wallpaper for the bedroom.

I'd been procrastinating it both because it was to be my first time with wallpaper and also because it was a super-tricky first time with wallpaper. What I hadn't realized is that the arched fireplace I'd ordered for the bedroom had a really deep back. That wasn't necessarily bad as this one is above the kitchen stove which shows a pretty huge fireplace stack, but it necessitated a much bigger chimney breast than I'd used for the dog grates in Traveller's Rest. So I built one, but then that meant I had to either cut the wallpaper to fit its angles, or bend it in.

I opted to bend it in, which mostly worked, but it was super tricky. I feel like I didn't so much install this wallpaper as survive it!

If I had been smart, I would have measured if not installed the wallpaper on that back wall with the windows before I started gluing stuff together. Then it would have been easy (well, comparably easy) to cut the window holes to size. What I ended up doing instead was installing the front part of the window by gluing around the edges, and then sticking the back to the wallpaper. So there's a bit of weird depth happening, but I think it works. 

I think I'm going to do curtains but they will have to be a nice neutral color as while the printed fabric I used for the bed matches nicely, it won't work right up against the wallpaper. So they're going to have to wait until I get the right fabric. Similarly, I think I'm going to put a mirror above the fireplace -- it feels a little bare but a picture would just clash with the wallpaper.

Once I got the wallpaper in I could install the floor, again using strips from S.H. Goode. This time rather than wainscoting, I used baseboards, also from S.H. Goode. I really wanted to show off the wallpaper, which is from Petworth Miniatures.

One thing I'm trying to decide on is whether to install these beams. It felt a little weird that the wallpaper ended "early" and I'm thinking they might help it seem more natural.

This bedroom is meant to be the "best" bedroom at the inn; it's all done up in "modern" furniture (some beautiful Empire/Regency style kits from Petworth), and even has a bathtub. The vanity is dressed with a necklace that sorely tried my patience, some bottles, and a bowl with a cracked egg, for this was one method of washing hair in the Georgian/Regency era. The lady staying in the bedroom is perhaps attending a ball in the yet-to-be-built assembly room!

Almost all of the rest of the furniture is from Petite Properties, and there are more details in my prior posts about where the various items came from. An exception is the trundle bed in the loft upstairs, which is from Herdwick Landscapes. I still need to do a bit more with the loft -- I think it needs a trunk or something where the servant living up there would put their belongings. And perhaps some of it is used for storage. The tricky part is that nothing super tall will fit up there. 

So the interior is not quite finished, but it's done enough to hold its furniture and so that means I'm on to the next structure!